I didn't ever own PT. I'm pointing out you are reliant on games always being available for redownload. They won't. More accurately exampled in the quote you skirted over there.
Digital is essentially giving up your rights of ownership for convenience.
You ignored price too.
2) you still have to make a claim for your stolen console before you log in.
Eh? Are you sharing a game tag? You can install the same disk on both consoles. Regardless, the ability for a married couple, with 2 xboxes, wanting to play the same game, on two xboxes, at the same time, renders physical media moot? Are you kidding, I really can't tell.
And you are relying on your discs always being functional and present.
The PT situation, a free demo, doesn't make me lose faith in a decade of digital purchases without a loss. I didn't skirt over the Nintendo quote. I just don't do business with Nintendo digitally, because they have a horrible record. That quote isn't pertinent to my experience and certainly doesn't nullify the benefits that I've been enjoying for the last decade.
In my life time (28years) , I've had more damaged/lost/stolen physical games(5-6) than I've had licenses lost (0). There's still time to catch up, but there's no signs this will change. I think a decade without any issues is long enough for me to be confident in the system. I've also purchased way more games in the last 10 years than I have in the previous 18.
The value of 'ownership', in this case, isn't all that valuable to me, since in practice, my ability access games has been virtually unchanged. Actually, my Access has improved if anything.
I never 'ignored' price. I said both methods have benefits. Lower prices is a benefit of physical (that typically become moot if you gameshare).
If your physical games are lost/damage/stolen, you have can't simply recover them. If the same thing happens to your harddrive you just download again. If your entire console is stolen, you're in the same boat in either case.
You can install a single disc on two consoles, but you can't play the game on both consoles simultaneously. If you bought digitally, you could both play at the same time.
So you can buy with one tag, play with another tag?
Think you are missing the point, I'm saying that uncommon scenario does not make physical irrelevant.
The most common scenario out there will be one xbox per household.
All these "what ifs" are not going to trump ownership.
Physical isn't irrelevant.
But that's not the argument. The argument is whether or not digital has benefits... which it clearly does. Just because these scenerarios aren't don't "trump ownership" in your usecase, doesn't make the same true for others. Considering digital is rapidly approaching 40% of all purchases on console, I think it's long past time to stop assuming these scenarios are uncommon.
