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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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[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I went digital in 2018 when:

  • I had a switch case with my game cards stolen,
  • I swapped from PS4 to PS4 pro and Xbox One to One X,
  • my son started walking and getting his hands on everything.

At that point physical games seemed riskier than account based digital purchases.

The mid gen refreshes may seem like a bit of a non sequitur but they felt like new platforms and it was a clean break from the physical era.

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