Poll: Do you buy games digitally or on disk?

How do you buy your games?

  • Digitally

    Votes: 41 35.3%

  • Disc / Cart

    Votes: 13 11.2%

  • Mostly digital but the odd disc

    Votes: 24 20.7%

  • Mostly disc but the odd digital

    Votes: 38 32.8%
  • Total voters
    116

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A: Digitally

B: Disk

C: Mostly Digital sometimes the odd Disk

D: Mostly Disk sometimes the odd digital.


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A, but I'm beginning to see the downside of digital ie games being delisted and online service pulled. Also the microtransactions are a joke too.
 
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I’d say I’m pretty much C in those categories these days. PS4 lifetime I was a B or D.

I’ll only get the disk if I know I am going to play it once then sell it (like Hogwarts Legacy from earlier this year).
 
A. sadly but I am trying to force myself to move to C. again wherever possible. I know the market is trying to shift to full digital so they can increase prices to silly levels and it would be nice to recoup some costs on physical purchases.
 
Kainz said:
A. sadly but I am trying to force myself to move to C. again wherever possible. I know the market is trying to shift to full digital so they can increase prices to silly levels and it would be nice to recoup some costs on physical purchases.
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I actually find later down the line the disc is cheaper than the digital ie no man sky on xbox, same for elden ring
 
Kainz said:
A. sadly but I am trying to force myself to move to C. again wherever possible. I know the market is trying to shift to full digital so they can increase prices to silly levels and it would be nice to recoup some costs on physical purchases.
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Price drop on Alan Wake 2 has already happened….Hogwarts and God of War…
 
lee1101 said:
A - haven’t played or purchased a disc for a good few years now
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I’m a casual PC gamer with a huge Steam account with games bought cheap over the years…I don’t even build PCs with disk drives anymore…

I bought myself a PS5 for Xmas to go with my new TV…Bought quite a few games cheap on PS Store…I’ve noticed some of the games can be quite big now while browsing the store….so isn‘t buying a game on disk now a myth? I mean all it contains is a licence to play that game as the actual game wouldn’t fit on the disk anyway….
 
I'm going to say "C".

I've gone through a PC only gaming phase but getting back into console. I purchased a couple of disk games for the PS4 that I never got round to playing, and will be looking to play them on the PS5 now.

Last couple of purchases have been all digital and I'll look to keep it that way from now on.

It just annoys me how the digital version is always pricier but seeing as there is a load of back catalogue single player games I want to play through, I can pick those up digitally when there are sales on the PS Store or games out now (like Alan Wake 2), I'm happy to wait 2 years before I play. No FOMO here :p
 
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I'm going to say "C".

I've gone through a PC only gaming phase but getting back into console. I purchased a couple of disk games for the PS4 that I never got round to playing, and will be looking to play them on the PS5 now.

Last couple of purchases have been all digital and I'll look to keep it that way from now on.

It just annoys me how the digital version is always pricier but seeing as there is a load of back catalogue single player games I want to play through, I can pick those up digitally when there are sales on the PS Store or games out now (like Alan Wake 2), I'm happy to wait 2 years before I play. No FOMO here :p
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I’m playing Need for Speed Hot Pursuit remastered I bought for £3.49 on PS Store….so I can relate….:D
 
Whichever is cheapest - I personally don't see discs as anything inconvenient to change/store, which seems to be some people's justification for going digital only
 
Somewhere between C and D for me. I haven't bought a disc for PC in donkeys years, but I buy physical media for all 1st party Nintendo games and some of the Playstation exclusives ( or at least the ones that are contained on disc(s) - I hate buying a disc to find there is a key code inside to download, such a waste of plastic ).

As for the boxed vs digital debate ... the recent Insomniac/Sony leak has sorta debunked the notion that digital sales heavily outweigh physical media sales ( on console at least ). Companies skew the figures by counting microtransactions as a digital sale. For Sony, the majority of their 1st party AAA titles were sold as physical media ( you can find the exact figures on Reddit and other social media ). Of course, I agree with you that it would be ecofriendly for physical media to be phased out, but the reason why Sony et al are trying to pursue that path is purely for profit, not for altruistic purposes.
 
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Which ever is the cheapest for me but Switch is physical as they have a habit of certain games going out of print. Then the price shoots up.

For example, R-Type Final 2 and Hades.
 
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I’m totally new to Console gaming since PS3 days where disk was the norm….When I logged into PS Store I was amazed I could get games for PS5 console at Steam Prices…not sure if this has always been the case….?

Hogwarts Legacy is now 50% off and it was released in Feb IIRC?

I know for a fact PC gamers don‘t Buy disks anymore….I've seen and worn the T shirt…I’m not sure why console gamers are so into disks? that’s the feeling I get….but this poll might educate me more…

Doesn't a games disk rely on getting some data off the servers anyway to play? Due to updates DLC and file size?

If the game is pulled from digital services it’s not guaranteed to work later on is it, even if you have the disk?
 
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