PlayStation

I'm mostly a PC gamer so I only have a Playstation for the exclusives. But everything I buy is physical.

The only game I bought digitally was GTA Episodes from Liberty City and that's because I didn't find it locally.

All digital. For the same reason I don’t buy CDs or DVDs either; plastic waste in my home.

Physical when possible. Little downside and some potential resale value down the line. Faster installs, even accounting for updates. Sometimes less space taken up on a device that should really have more than it does.

Until they start discounting digital over physical, why wouldn't you?

I'm a PC gamer this gen, but I've always stuck with physical for consoles. They'd drop faster to the price I was looking for than digital did thanks to stuff like used games and stores having more incentive to clear inventory space. By the time games hit the price I wanted on digital months would go by.

And I never really trusted backwards compatibility support for older titles, so I liked being able to sell them off if I decided I wanted the new remastered version with the higher fps and resolution. Less an issue this gen, but that was my thinking the past generations.

Digital. The average lifespan of physical crap I'm failing to keep track of is way shorter than the expected support lifespan for PSN/NSO. I would love to be one of those people with beautiful displays of lovingly-collected merch, but I've accepted that I'm incapable of that level of organization. Digital keeps everything organized for me.

Digital if it's significantly cheaper than physical. If I'm paying physical prices, then I'd want the full package, disc and case. But also I've found a lot of times getting physical for a game day one can actually be cheaper than digital (in the uk) and that's insane.

Physical whenever possible. Digital content has no value to me.

Physical, or drm-free, which is DIY physical on your choice of media.

I try to buy physical as much as I can but with the way keys work now and the online keystore. Buying physical doesn't mean much

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.

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.

I only buy physical for big games like FF7R, Elden Ring, Ragnarok, etc. I love how convenient digital copies are but damn does PSN try to squeeze you if you aren't patient enough to wait for a sale.