Do you buy your games in physical or download format?

[CM30]

As in, do you buy them on discs/cards/CDs in shops or as downloads on services like the eShop or Steam or the like?

I always buy them in physical game card/whatever format. Don't know why, but I just think it's lesser hassle, it means I retain full ownership of any games I buy (and can sell/give them away) and I prefer the feeling of opening the box for the first time rather than using some download service.

 

[smoke]

I buy both. Sometimes I don't have time to drive 50 miles to the game store. If there is a game I really want, I go buy the physical copy.

 

[Disturbed Mouse]

Well, I don't actually go to the shops for my games -we lack game stores that are easy to access- so I just use Amazon ^^ I'd be too paranoid about my 3DS if I downloaded all my games, besides, I don't want to have to buy loads of SD cards if I bought loads of games (I've heard some games are huge) and I just have a preference of having boxes lying around, so it looks like a collection :3

 

[Member]

I buy only the physical copy of games.

 

[Ungravitify]

I usually go for the physical copy of the game but im slowly starting to shift to digital downloads.

 

[starmario12]

I buy both. Sometimes I don't have time to drive 50 miles to the game store. If there is a game I really want, I go buy the physical copy.



50 miles? Theres a Gamestop like 3 blocks away from my house, real close.

 

[Nin★Pat]

I buy more games physically than I download them digitally

 

[Cobra King]

I buy my games in physical form. Except for VC games from the e-shop.

 

[Claraviolet]

Well, I used to get the physical copy of some DVD or some other device.
Now, I prefer downloading it installing it directly.
It's too much trouble to go to a game shop to get what I want.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

I always did physical, then for 3DS and Wii U I change to download.
But now I like cartridge soft more again.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

physical if possible, but if its something like a quick play like Cod or Smash, I'll get digital for quick play.

 

[froggyboy604]

I mainly buy physical games for consoles since I can always re-sell them when I finish the game or dislike the game.

Collecting physical games is also a fun hobby compared to having a hard drive full of games which is not as fun.

 

[WitchAssassin]

I only have one game that's a digtal download (it's on my Switch). All the other games I have, are the physical copy (including past games I've bought for past consoles).

 

[froggyboy604]

I also only have physical games for my older consoles.

 

[Kita]

I always purchase my video games digitally. It's easier and cheaper for me.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Very much both at the moment, but I'd think I have far more digital games since my PS4 than I had physical games. I tend to buy mainly in the PlayStation store sales.

 

[Jerrar]

I went full digital this generation.

 

[NameGervin]

Why pay for the same price when you can have something that you can physicall touch and feel.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Why pay for the same price when you can have something that you can physicall touch and feel.

right.

 

[froggyboy604]

Why pay for the same price when you can have something that you can physicall touch and feel.

Selling an older game console with many old games may make more people pay hundreds of dollars more for your game consoles along with all your old games.

There may also be a chance that a few games will be expensive collectors items in a few years where a game collector mainly buy an expensive collectible game like old Nintendo games to put on a glass display shelf/bookcase to show off to their many gamer friends.