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Do you buy your game physical or digital? (lemmy.zip)
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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
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[–] Dariusmiles2123 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Physical except free ps plus games.

I buy new when it’s a game I’m gonna enjoy for sure.

I buy used when there is a doubt I’ll enjoy the game.

If physical games disappear on playstation 6, I might switch to a Linux gaming PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you buy physical games on PC?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Don't know about that, but you can atleast backup the games.

[–] Dariusmiles2123 1 points 1 month ago

I don’t know to be honest, but I also don’t see so many reasons to stay on consoles if the physical games are disappearing as it was a huge advantage for me.

Another reason for me to stay on consoles for now is that it’s easy to know what games your device is able to play. Even on something standardized like a Steam Deck it isn’t so easy to know if a game is going to run well or not.

I’ll see, but I guess I’m one anti consumer move away from making the switch 😅