All the youtubers are crying about physical now. You people need to adapt and overcome, namean. I stopped caring about physical more than a decade ago, fully embracing Steam/GOG/PS store/game key stores. I have sold most of my physical collection. The physical era has ended, just accept it.

Good for you. That you feel so important to start a useless topic for this instead of putting your worthless take in the existing threads. Thank you. Fuck you. Bye.

Good for you keep sucking the trillion dollar companies for taking away choices, physical is a part of gaming culture, its oke to dislike it but why take away the choice.

Have fun with your 1500 dolalr 512gb ps6 with 100 to 120 dollar games that can be and 100% will be taken away anytime by sony or whereever you buy your digital crap.

Have fun!

Maybe just give the platform holders your debit card and let them choose what games to let you play. Then you dont even need to worry about deciding anything.

I always buy digital on cheap. I loved physical games, especially PS2 and PS3, but those days are gone.

I support physical & digital. The more options the more happy everyone is.
A digital only future is a slippery slope into having less consumer rights-

7th gen- Introduction to digital games. Players are happy.

8th gen- Some games become digital only, but players are still happy as there is the option for both physical & digital.
9th gen- Most games purchased are digital. Sony deletes certain movies from customers' libraries 'purchased' from their store. Stop killing games looses against the rights to digitally own a game without the game's servers and game store pages getting shut down which can make a game no longer playable or redownloadable. Shorty after (and conveniently) Sony announces they will no longer support physical games by 2028. Sony closes PS3 store & deletes certain movies from users bought from their store.
10th gen- Consoles are digital only.
(Predictions from this point onwards) PS4 store closes. Stop killing games try a stronger campaign, this time it works but all that happens is companies aren't allowed to label transactions as 'digitally purchased'. So they use a term like 'digitally rented' (they actually use a more attractive and less known term than 'rent' to brush the reality under the mat.
Shorty after they announce that current game libraries won't cross over between generations forcing consumers to 'rebuy' games every gen.
Half way through the gen Sony & Microsoft have a scheme to allow consumers the option to rent games for a month, 6 months, a year or (for a large price) an entire console generation.
11th Gen- Sony & MS closes their 9th gen console's stores. They stop the ability for consumers to rent games an entire generation. They allow new option of renting a game for 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year. The new cost of renting games increased.
12th gen- Companies remove the ability of renting games for a whole year forcing gamers to 'rebuy' more frequently. Prices increase.

All this happens whilst stop killing games keep failing to change things for the better. They get demonized by media that are ultra capitalists, some get prossecuted by big business claiming reputation damages. Age verification is mandatory and unavoidable with digital methods of transactions. Users are required to send ID to unreliable 3rd parties via face scanning, passport, a digital ID, etc.

Gamers wished they could go back in time beforehand when games were less corporate and more about fun.

I support both digital and physical games. physical games are the only thing in the way preventing that potential future from happening.

In that case, you're the perfect slave for the powers that be (no offense).
Consider others who held onto these games for years, solely to ensure their survival rather than their loss.

Yeah, I don't get the love for a piece of plastic either.