With all due respect. I am fully in favor of pirating exclusives.
Nintendo and Sony should bring their games to PC and ensure the public has the freedom to choose their hardware.

If bought digital is not owning piracy is not stealing.

A bad thing cannot be made right by another bad thing.

Fix the bad thing.

Good luck telling that to sony,mic and ninty(in a lesser degree)

I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but just in case you're actually serious: the definition of piracy remains the same whether it be of an ownable item (like an NFT) or access (like a service, pass, subscription, or license).

The thing with legislation is, it always trails reality a few years. But eventually it will catch up.

Me pirating a copy of Super Mario Bros. on the NES, and sleeping soundly knowing that a Nintendo employee won't be eating dinner that night.

If games were free it would only kill 99,99% of the biggest studios, but not 99,99% of the industry. It's the same with music. How many music is produced and make virtually zero profit? Many music artists started putting their first songs on SoundCloud and other free streaming services 

Think about how many artists still making draws and paiting for virtually zero profit

I believe this would make games go back to the scope, size and technical level they were in the early 2000s, but that's it 

I'd still patronage games regularly, and I believe enough people would still do it. Not enough for make AAA games, but enough for A games. I honestly wouldn't mind the change

There is also an argument about games being culture, there are alternatives to some level of state funded software development. In my country this is how many of our cultural industry survives

With physical media - it's more about being untethered by the whims of a corporation tinkering with the content in some way or cutting it off or you being at the mercy of the internet or cloud, etc.. Especially when things like licensing issues, DRM, censorship, etc have become more prominent in many ways. Many gamers like to know that they have a tangible, concrete piece of content that cannot be altered/tampered with/yanked away, no updates to worry about, etc. Provided they have the - A. software and B. hardware to play it on, and that's all they need forever. Often not even needing access to the internet. Obviously the content is "digital" stored on a disc, but that's irrelevant, as least when applied to the argument and reasoning I see here. It's still far more untethered from any outside forces and more completely "owned" in the physical sense.

Most of my games these days are digital just for the sake of convenience and/or cheaper deals, though in principle or from an ideological standpoint I much prefer and support physical still. Plus I enjoy the physical collection aspect, of just being able to see the content stored in your space.