Pushsqure has postet an articel with the ratio of game bought pysical or digital this year. The ratio goes up for digital games. I’m still buy most of my games pysical, but what do you prefer.
I like that i’m able to resell, rent games and i have a bigger market for discouts in pysical games. I guess the biggest advantage if digital games it’s how easy it is to obtain them and you don’t have to stand up switching games. Not surprised that the games sold on the Switch have a much higher ratio of pysical games, there is just not enough memory on the system.
US
- PS5: 78% digital, 22% pysical
- XBS: 91% digital, 9% pysical (no gamepass included)
- NS: 53% digital, 47% pysical
EU
- PS5: 68% digital, 32% pysical
- XBS: 81% digital, 19% pysical
- NS: 35% digital, 65% pysical
I went digital to the point I got an Xbox Series S instead of the X.
I recognize it’s a right, but I’ve felt a moral weirdness about reselling physical games. It’s mostly fine when hobby gamers sell to friends, but most commonly it was turned into a GameStop industry or a scalping/hoarding situation on eBay. It’s generally nicer if everyone keeps their copies for future replays, and the publisher just lowers the price when the market is more saturated; especially if those sales save you more money than you would’ve spent on new discs.