I haven’t bought a physical game in years. I have an XSX and I gameshare with my brother so anything any of us buy the other can play. Who wants to mess with switching discs. Sure deals on newer games are generally better on discs but I have game pass and don’t need to buy too many new games, plus those I buy, me and my brother can both play. So we buy one copy of MW2 and both play at the same time. I also grind out MS rewards to buy games.

I bought gran Turismo 7 for £38 on eBay 4 months ago. I sold it last week for £33. If you went digital you just blew £60

This isn't a console question it's a developer question. Each game developer decides of they want crossplay not the console maker.

I like to own my games

Gumtree

Ebay is a decent place or maybe Facebook marketplace, thats where i got an xbox 360 for $25

It’s mostly paranoia. Digital is far more convenient and is the future.

I buy physical games because I like to collect them. I also like to buy physical versions of my favorite games in the remote, extremely remote chance that digital versions become unavailable one day. And I can’t stress enough how monumentally remote the chance of that happening is.

Idk my ps5 is a digital edition as i struggled to find a disc edition and its completely fine, im not missing out on any games. I mean sure its harder to get deals but still.

I'm a PC and console gamer. I buy physical for console to buy, sell and trade. PC games can be had relatively cheap digitally year round but not on console. Periodic digital sales on console often don't even get as cheap as used physically copies are year round.

Because if we don't fight the coming digital age, MS and Sony will just take our games that we paid for!!! /s

You lose access to everything digital at some point. Excuse me for actually wanting to own my media.

We should be able to sell or transfer the cd keys of games when we buy digital games.

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For me it's about price . I can buy a used game i really want to play a couple /few months after wrelease at a steep discount while the digital version on series s or ps 5 digital remains at full.price for a year :-)

I have a switch for many different games (animal crossing, slay the spire, Pokémon, Zelda) and it sits unused frequently during gaming lulls. To say nothing of my poor Xbox that is essentially a glorified streaming box the vast majority of time. If the PS5 wasn't so fuckin ugly I'd have that as my streaming box with gaming exclusives to boot. I'm waiting until some limited editions come out and make it truly worthwhile. But right now it is an absolute eyesore

It's nice to have options. I have the option to buy used games or deep sales like Black Friday sales coming up. Also several games are only available on backwards compatibility via disc. If both options are offered, why not take the one with more flexibility?

I was honestly thinking about making a local "game library" where people could come and borrow games untill they played them, and then return them / exchange them for other games.

A: affordability B: actually having it rather than renting up until the websits or whatever goes bang

Nope, I dom't have a ps5

I don't care about new physical games, I just want to be sure I can play all the old ones I already own, so I care more about backward compatible hardware.

Yes

Sony usually have killer deals on their store. It's mostly been new PS5 games that are holding their prices, but there's usually two sales running at any one time, with prices that are as good as Steam.

I bought Resident Evil 2 + 3 Remakes (PS4 and PS5 versions) for less than €20... I spent more on peanut butter this morning FFS.

>limited space on console

Doesn't matter, games are installed and ran entirely from the internal drive, and have done since the PS4/Xbox One.

That said, I like the flexibility. I'm not bound to the consoles store, I'm also more inclined to try out new games if I can resell it in the event it's a stinker. And with console games getting more expensive, buying at launch on a physical format makes sense. I'm not gonna play say God of War Ragnorok more than once in quick succession, so I'll sell it when done (and buy The Callisto Protocol).

It's also about ownership, and preferring the tactility of having something in your hand.

Yeah seems like a big problem is the online stores for consoles. Selling year old games at full price? Thats a ripoff. Steam on consoles would be great since they have really good sales and don't sell everything at full price. Or maybe Sony and Microsoft and especially Nintendo just need to improve their stores?

Is it possible to play games purchased on xbox through game pass on your pc?

Alright your point on collecting movies even tho we have streaming services got me thinking. Seems like most people here just like to collect games and share them with friends. I get that, I guess everbody is different when it comes to buying games. I personally prefer digital games. Console gamers should be able to choose if they want physical or digital, so I get that people would be angry at companys for taking away that choice.