We've had some recent threads about digital vs. physical, and I'm curious when the all (or near-all) digital console crowd went digital?

I specified console, because physical games are still alive on consoles. They're virtually dead globally for PC, even with Steam or digital codes in a box not as common anymore. 

Also, you can specify which consoles you play on and if you had a different timeline for when you went all-digital on them. 

February 2014 for me. Had just gotten my Wii U, had enough money to buy one physical game and was torn between DKCTF or SM3DW until I realized that I was close to having enough money to buying both of them digitally. So I did that, and haven't really looked back since.

(I voted 2013 in the poll, just a brainfart, do ignore)

Autumn 2012, when 3DS retail games went on the EShop. That was the last system I'd bought physical media for.
It's too convenient not to do digital purchases.

A long time ago. Digital is the future.

Started via the ps4.  

I don’t think I’m eligible exactly to vote, but I am all digital on 2/3 ecosystems.

While I continue to collect physical Switch games — I have roughly 85 cards — I’ve given up on physical PS and Xbox games, as of PS5 and Xbox Series. I think the last physical PS4 game I bought was Elden Ring in 2022 and the last physical Xbox One game I bought was Infinite Warfare in 2016.

There are a few reasons why. There are fewer and fewer PS and Xbox games worth buying; subscription services like Game Pass provide a quick, easy way to try the latest games; and the physical versions just feel more and more like digital versions with a polycarbonate intermediary, due to all the installs and patches.

Where is option never ?

After the atrocious PS3/360 era and the myriad of console issues that came with it including disc drive errors, I bought a PS4. The PS4 had a huge amount of space for the time and then the disc drive started malfunctioning, sometimes not reading the disc.

I was done playing games (physically). So around 2016 I went full digital.

Depends if you consider the Switch a console. I buy most of my Switch games as digital so I can take them with me. But if it's a game that I feel I probably won't be replaying in short bursts on a whim (i.e. unicorn overlord) I may go physical.

On my PS5/XBone, I'm far more likely to buy physical copies when available. But that might depend on the game and if it's a pick up and play kind of game like Street Fighter, I'm more likely to go digital.

Last Xbox game i got physical was Far Cry 6. Been digital on there since 2015. Last gen on Wii U i was like 50/50 but for Switch all my games are physical because the Wii U didnt have bc with the Switch, and I only have like 9 games on Switch anyway so it's not a hassle storing them.

It started for me when i had trouble securing a physical special edition copy of Ghost of Tsushima on PS4 back in 2020 and i decided instead to pre-order the digital deluxe edition on the PS store around 2 weeks before its launch and i continued being digital from there and on to the PS5.

I make an exception for the PS3 since i went back to it last year and bought plenty of new physical games for it from eBay.