Do you still prefer physical games or digital?

[wartoy]

Physical games are a must for me 99.8 percent off the time.

[2ko]

I'm probably in the minority in that I actually prefer digital. It's just easier to manage imo, and on the more modern systems you kind of need a network connection to download all the patches, texture packs and sometimes the game itself even if you have a physical copy.

Now physical for me is reserved for my favorite games on the system I want to own. They serve as kind of decoration I guess, cause honestly I would prefer to own them digitally. I want people to look at my physical collection and be able to tell exactly what games I love. So my collection is more a reflection of my taste in games than a reflection of the games I've played. I own a flashcart for most of my older systems (or I've hacked them to play downloaded games, like my PSP and 3DS) so I can just download games to try before I buy them.

I wasn't always digital over physical though. Back when I was a maximalist collector (just trying to get the biggest collection I could) I was physical over digital 100%. To the point I kind of missed a lot of great digital games cause I didn't want to spend my money on digital games when I could be spending it on games for my collection.

[ssj4yamgeta]

Definitely physical. If a digital game isn't a rom or DRM-free GOG version that I can make infinite backup copies of, I don't even consider it part of my collection.

[mrkonasoni]

Physical, but at some point I have to decided between commodity or find where to put another little box, honestly I ran off of space so I mostly just buy physical the games I genuinely want or when they are cheap and I am feeling like making space in my room.

Digital for all their consequences is pretty practical and I assume more people at some point prefer that over collecting, at the end I guess is a bit of both for me and once again, a lot of people.

That being said, Nintendo published games are always exclusively physical for me because they barely go in discount in the eShop and if I gonna pay 70$ for a game (50$-60$ now apparently) might as well buy it physical.

[telekill]

Seems Sony has implemented a rule on new digital purchases...oddly...the very rule that Microsoft implemented causing so much backlash that propelled the PS4's sales. That new rule is that once every 30 days, your Playstation must connect to PSN to verify your keycodes, or your digital games will brick. My understanding is previously purchased digital games will remain unaffected.

So, this means the end of me buying any digital only games.

Congrats on adding yet another reason to not buy a PS6, Sony.

[sworddude]

Seems Sony has implemented a rule on new digital purchases...oddly...the very rule that Microsoft implemented causing so much backlash that propelled the PS4's sales. That new rule is that once every 30 days, your Playstation must connect to PSN to verify your keycodes, or your digital games will brick. My understanding is previously purchased digital games will remain unaffected.

So, this means the end of me buying any digital only games.

Congrats on adding yet another reason to not buy a PS6, Sony.

what if you connect in say 80 days since you haven't touched the game in a while I'd assume it's still playable than since it's probably gotto connect to the internet per 30 days to keep the code active. but there is no time limit in which when you do so if you play it much later on.

[telekill]

Seems Sony has implemented a rule on new digital purchases...oddly...the very rule that Microsoft implemented causing so much backlash that propelled the PS4's sales. That new rule is that once every 30 days, your Playstation must connect to PSN to verify your keycodes, or your digital games will brick. My understanding is previously purchased digital games will remain unaffected.

So, this means the end of me buying any digital only games.

Congrats on adding yet another reason to not buy a PS6, Sony.

what if you connect in say 80 days since you haven't touched the game in a while I'd assume it's still playable than since it's probably gotto connect to the internet per 30 days to keep the code active. but there is no time limit in which when you do so if you play it much later on.

You have to think long term. Let's say you pull your digital PS5 out of storage in 10 years. For whatever reason the nic card in it is toast but you still have your favorite single player games installed. You won't be able to play them.

[sly345]

I still use DVD/BD/4KBD/CD/R2R and yes also Cartridges
I do use emulators, i use steam but i do prefer physical media, i do prefer real manuals and i like boxes. I do like holding something in my hands.

I recently got into comic books (batman, superman, that stuff, never was into it as a kid for some reason, took me a long time to really get a taste for it i guess) and i could've gotten everything on kindle for a fraction of what i paid, but when i hold that fucking 3 kilogram monstrosity that is "Batman Adventures Omnibus" in my arms like it's a baby, yeah, i know why i prefer that medium. Also nobody can alter it or kill it (like Amazon did with 1984 on kindle, Ubisoft did with The Crew or music services only having remixes or remasters on service instead of the original music or  Rockstar did with the current versions of the old GTA games)
With movies the advantage is even bigger since the bitrate on most streaming sites is disgusting and not any better than high quality DVD (Amazon Prime has movies with 2 Gigabytes, 1080 and everytime the pictures goes black you can count the pixels like it's a Atari 2600 game)