Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

I've been all digital for over a decade now. Although, I still maintain a substantial physical library (in totes). Digital media has numerous benefits over physical media: significantly greater variety of content, no durability concerns, and convenience across games, books, TV, music, and films. While physical collections have nostalgic appeal, digital formats provide superior advantages:

• Durability and Security: No wear and tear from usage or the environment (dust, moisture), and your collection is safely stored across multiple devices and cloud storage. Lost or stolen accounts can often be recovered, unlike physical media - which is often gone forever; and it's usually not some burglar stealing it so much as friends of your kids - and you might not even notice until you're moving over a year later and realize some of your stuff is missing.
• Management: Ties into the above, you know where all your stuff is at all times - but not with physical media, especially if you own hundreds or thousands of items. This especially comes in handy if you've moved as much as I have in my life (across continents and oceans in the past, made a small move, just a few kilometres this year, and that was rough enough).
• Clutter-Free Living: A digital collection requires no storage space, making it perfect for people who move frequently or prefer minimalism. If you want to dedicate rooms to plants, art, or other luxury items - you have way more space to do so.
• Convenience: Access your entire library on multiple devices like notebooks, phones, and consoles without carrying physical clutter. Moving your collection across platforms is seamless. Particularly on modern platforms. Access to my full library books, TV shows, films, music, and many games in my living room on my new 4K TV, or on my phone, in my pocket. And with the Switch and M1 MacBook Air, all of my Steam and console games from 2017 in a laptop bag.
• Availability and Speed: Digital platforms make even rare or niche content easily accessible and downloadable, unlike physical items that may require long waits or go out of print. Indie creators have largely abandoned physical media (music, video, and gaming) - in the past, whole countries were excluded from not just indie games, but mainstream gaming companies. 
• Environmental Benefits: If you're a Greenie, like myself, then this might be a concern to you. All digital contributes less to waste and pollution from manufacturing, shipping, and plastics helps minimize your carbon footprint. I understand many people don't care about the environment, and are actually purposely hostile toward it because of political affiliations - so this one isn't for everyone.

All in all, I don't miss having my data on a whole bunch of different pieces of plastic. I have found going full digital to be a significant improvement. And, in fact, the time I did have physical media is still a massive burden for me, because I still have a lot of that junk.

I've been all digital for over a decade now. Although, I still maintain a substantial physical library (in totes). Digital media has numerous benefits over physical media: significantly greater variety of content, no durability concerns, and convenience across games, books, TV, music, and films. While physical collections have nostalgic appeal, digital formats provide superior advantages:

• Environmental Benefits: If you're a Greenie, like myself, then this might be a concern to you. All digital contributes less to waste and pollution from manufacturing, shipping, and plastics helps minimize your carbon footprint. I understand many people don't care about the environment, and are actually purposely hostile toward it because of political affiliations - so this one isn't for everyone.

All in all, I don't miss having my data on a whole bunch of different pieces of plastic. I have found going full digital to be a significant improvement. And, in fact, the time I did have physical media is still a massive burden for me, because I still have a lot of that junk.

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.