consoles are a digital consumer nightmare without physical media... even if it's a game cart/disc.
-You won nothing on the psn/xbox stores.
-Everything tied to your account and vulnerable
-no playing offline
-no 1.0, so if they patch something you don't like, no going back
-no way to find better deals. You just wait for their sales.
meanwhile physical?
-Can play offline, can play 1.0
-Can be bought with deals from different retailers, can be bought used or sold
-Not tied to any account
Someone might say "but steam!!!!"
but steam is nothing like console stores:
-on steam you have access to files, you can copy or mod the games
-You get cdkeys websites
-Yes, still vulnerable with everything tied to an account