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Do you buy your game physical or digital? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

PS5: 78% digital, 22% pysical
XBS: 91% digital, 9% pysical (no gamepass included)
NS: 53% digital, 47% pysical

PS5: 68% digital, 32% pysical
XBS: 81% digital, 19% pysical
NS: 35% digital, 65% pysical

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every game I have on switch I bought digitally. I just love being able to hop on the estore and bam new titles downloading. The main downside is the sales on Nintendo titles are few and far between so you’re more than likely to pay full price for any Zelda or smash bros game for instance. I do have plenty of other titles I bought for heavy discounts, the entire borderlands collection for 40 bucks the entire bioshock collection for like 30, gta collection probably the same price too so there are deals to be had.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are regular discounts on the nintendo e-shop, but only a few (mostly AA) nintendo games, but hundret of other games (often not interresting for me). I seldom look into nintendo discouts to be honest lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Other than Nintendo first party games, all other games have very similar sales as on PSN. There are few games which have lower "lowest ever price" on Switch, and there are some which have it lower on PSN, but overall, both get similar-ish sales.

This is just my personal experience though, have looked at many games, but haven't done any proper research into it.