Well, buying FF7 Rebirth on disc was the correct choice but buying Helldivers was a disaster, it's a game you boot up for 20 minutes or thirty minutes, swappong out the disc feels like I've gone back in time, I don't care for it at all. Having been in the convience of digital gaming, I don't get it, this is as bad as going back to music that isn't a click away. There's always that damn urge to leave the last disc in the case of the game you're slotting in and it's not long before you're left with a mess and ya can't find half of what you're looking for. Thank God for digital games. 

Leave the case of the disc that's in the ps5, on or next to the PS5. It's that simple...

The other advantage of discs, I don't have to go in the game library to find the game I want to play (stupid dashboard limit). The disc is always in the first spot :)

Never really understood this argument...Maybe I have the case of old man energy but it was never an issue to swap disc/carts 20-30 years ago and never been an issue for me now. Everyone has different living conditions so to keep 20-50 game cases around might not be doable for many but it takes 30 seconds (less) to swap a disc. For me personally the draw backs of digital/digital store fronts is worth getting off the couch to change the disc lol. 

^ Yeah but this isn't a problem is you focus on one game at a time but I interweave games so I may pkay two or three or even four in a session of gaming. I know it's laziness but it really feels archaic to be changing disks, especially for a game you're diverting to for one match and then swapping back. The PS5 dashboard allows you to pin games so you can stick those side titles on that and the ones your mailing get left in the list anyway. I'm particularly bad ass of late, juggling a lot of games and dipping in and out of new buys to test them and see what I wanna play as well, so now may not be the best time to judge this as when things go back to normal I'll be juggling no more than 3 games with my system. I just can't imagine juggling ten games but like Svenn said, move them to the PS5 and it's less of a hassle, I suppose. Also, you may not be in the mood for a game and have to cycle through multiple games before you realise what game you're in the mood for, it takes so little time digitally with the SSD. 

Were you juggling games like that before digital?

That whole ADHD way of playing imo comes from digital and streaming. That's also why I prefer discs since it discourages hopping from game to game, not really enjoying anything. Like swapping from movie to show to documentary on Netflix without watching anything longer than 10 minutes (or just leaving it on the preview channel lol)

And oddly buying the 4K blu-ray, I'll complete a movie in one sitting, which I never do on streaming. The hassle of booting up a blu-ray again encourages finding time to watch a movie in one go. Sometimes inconvenience becomes a convenience :)

But sure, for multiplayer matches it can be convenient to have a digital copy. I have for GT7 (next to the steelbook edition) so I could quickly switch to GT7 when a timed event came up. Also in VR pass through mode can be a bit tricky to change discs. (I'm used to it now, yet depth perception is a bit off at first with PSVR2 pass-through, fishing where to place the controllers lol)

SEGA Genesis cartridges had the best size and shape ever and Japan Mega Drive boxes had the best art. While the JP boxart is far superior, the US version of Gunstar Heroes came with a free fruit rollup inside the case! Can't download free candy!

Yeah, I used to play that way with discs as well and very rarely finished games because of it. Since digital I've finish more games in a year than I did in 5 years before. Something about digital and having the game persistently on your console keeps it in mind so you are more inclined to return even after it enters your backlog. Discs end up so easily in a backlog that is never touched again. I recently tried FF7 remake for the fourth time cause it was on my HDD and I was about to format it and glad I did cause I got into it this time and very much enjoyed it, I was about to skip right to Rebirth cause I never thought I'd gel with REmakes pacing, if it was on disc it might not even have gotten a second try for whatever physiological reason that causes that to happen. 

Interesting. It's the opposite with me. I finish far fewer digital titles than physical. But that's also due to buying physical versions of the games I really like.

Hence my disk space keeps filling up with digital games I never finish :/ And then I eventually delete some to make room for a new install which makes the chance of getting back to them virtually zero. BG3 being of the prime examples, not inclined to download it again to give it another try. With a disc I would have installed it on the pro to try it again.

RDR1 I picked up again thanks to it being on disc and became one of my favorites, HZD as well, initially put down after the tutorial. TW3 I would have abandoned after the first area if I didn't have it on disc, providing that little extra push to stick with it. With the disc in the drive I'm more inclined to continue to play what I was playing last time. Without it I'm more inclined to swap to something else and for me juggling multiple 'story games' usually means one gets abandoned.

Yet thanks to digital I can play some Puzzling Places or GT7 in VR, then continue with the 'story game' in the drive. Still have to get up to take the headset off though! They might as well be physical editions although for games that get most their content after launch, not all that much point to having the disc. I have the original discs of DriveClub, No Man's Sky, GT Sport. They might as well be 'codes' as the core game is very barebones. But I can experience No Man's Sky again how it was at release! That part of history is sitting on my shelf :)

Yeah, you think it would be the opposite. It really is the way you think about it, I suppose. My dash board is my main focus, folders used to be my backlog and now I suppose that's the library on ps5 and deleted games don't exist in my mind at all aside from every now and then, I'll scan through to see if I can find anything. That last part is massive for gaming paralysis and the kind of completions OCD that comes with having all the boxes in front of you or folders full of games to scroll through when making a decision on what to play. I wasn't a fan of the 10 game limit on the PS5 dashboard until I realised it's actually genius, it allow only those games to exist in my mind and now not even the library exists at the current time making decisions much easier and meaning I never suffer from choice paralysis, that is gone with the ps5 and something that was plaguing me right up until I retired my ps4 PRO for ps5. With the SSD and now choice paralysis gone, I have way more time for gaming. I don't even want folders to come back now, it's about managing those ten games and making sure the ones I put on hold but intent to return to rotation stay on there with pins while the rest are the games I'm focusing on and shouldn't slip off the screen anyway. If I buy a game I don't intend to play straight away I boot up all 5 of the games that aren't pinned so it gets pushed into the library and it's gone from my mind until I've beaten a game or I delete a failure and then I go searching to pull one forward. It's so perfect in it's design and has solved problems I never thought would be solved that have existed since I started a collection on ps1, I have to assume that this is the actual intent and it's genius design and they wanted to eliminate choice paralysis and gaming ruts, cause the more people playing games the better, the sooner they'll be on the store buying new stuff. I bet this boosts revenue and one more reason they want to get rid of discs. 

Out of carts or disks I don't care either way even though carts I feel like besides the cleaning or pins I do think they are better than disks of condition.

Demos I'd say are fine for digital even if physical is still interesting that way of demos. I mean if people don't want to set up an account then well why not with physical of old consoles or local accounts then the extra to go with for eshops or online and such or trophy/achievement syncing.

Besides that I prefer physical for many reasons. You can do the not so intended of archiving but you can also even if yes have to get up all the time and without a disk changer or cart changer. But you actually have the 1.0 or whatever version on the cart (Switch, can't say for PS/Xbox if they care and just go eh we don't care for bug fix reprints) on what certain disks these days but you never know what percentage of the game will work and that's interesting seeing how the 1.0 versions are for those that are complete, I own a few PS4/Vita/Xbox One/Wii U and Switch 1.0 versions. It's interesting.

I can play a 1.0 version and go oh this is how it was or it be complete. No Man's Sky, Minecraft 1.2/Jungle update on legacy versions, whatever Bedrock/prior were at it's interesting. I mean on PC Java you can pick any version, can't do that Bedrock PC/any console version so 1.0 disk it is.

Let alone any that had issues, how buggy they were, how some like Dark Void I had to use the 1.0 as the update 1.1 crashes, so I mean why bother.

You can have definitive editions (less so these days as just codes and standard edition disks combined, what a definitive edition then, XD which sucks).

You on 360 could 'choose' instead of PS3/PS4/Xbox One etc. where it's forced installs. Having that optional chance is nice. While Nintendo still makes them run off the disk/cart and you free up space and they go well we will just make it run as best we can while not offering installs which I find interesting.

The packaging/art is nice to have then a digital and going yep, got card/wallet top up, and browsing and all that effort and it's delisted or it's not always on the store or otherwise.

To be fair I find even some tutorials/menus with controls still bad at communicating unless a hack n slash or something with a lot of button inputs actually specify two button actions. I always hate that, tutorials, menus or manuals at least it varies but still can happen.

Going to the store physical/ordering if have to is a lot more work but the trip is always enjoyable to go there, see what it there, see what Indies even make it to physical is interesting as well. Seeing what limited IPs even make it to physical anymore besides the wider digital view.

I also just don't like the eshop layouts let alone some of the OS layouts for the consoles so a physical to just browse is enough still for me of the titles, the box and more to see what's there, compare prices to digital/physical, seeing stock as well. Knowing you have your physical limits of stock left.

Using a screen, (not that I do prefers but a timer and it taking up space and all that) it's just not fun or enjoyable at all. Sure physical takes up space but I have more fair time with physical space and not awkward state of things and less to deal with of oh if I don't like the game (even though I already research if I like something or not anyway when at a physical store or before digital or otherwise).

But the digital refunds and the licensing terms are just so bad why would I bother. Oh if you download it then nope, like you might as well have already looked it up before purchase. Or other factors. The digital terms are so stupid. You can't swap a disk to digital because they won't let you.

Among other things. Not looking forward to less temp files and otherwise control over purchases and tiers of resolution and no box and all that with streaming, pass on all of it.

There is enough of reading manuals or having a controls slip or an artbook, having them on your shelf, the physical bonuses I don't care for with anime/game limited editions or day one editions, really anyway unless it's an artbook or OST (cough of course they are 'partial' OST tracks offered ones which is annoying but I don't know how wav or otherwise they are then just some MP3s on a disk, so if they are more clear then compressed sure if not then well while I don't care you would question the storage size/licensing and such there right?) on a disk, otherwise pass on stickers or statues or other stuff.