Your Current Gen Retail purchases versus Digital purchases

I just have a Wii U, and digital, I just buy if there is no retail version available, so far the count is :

Wii U : 37 Retail, Digital : 0
 
It's still next gen until PS3 and Xbox 360 are zoned out completely I'm afraid. I feel like it's bait every time someone says current gen. There is no current gen at the moment, there is last and next.
 
Destiny is my first big budget digital game i bought. I completely regret it, can't return it, its so boring. This is why i don't want to go digital, if i don't like the games i want to return them.
 
Can't be bothered counting precisely, but I'm something like;

PS4
~ 10 Digital
~ 0 Physical
Wii U
~10 Physical
~ 5 Digital
Xbox One
~ 0 Either

It's cheaper to go physical here on Wii U. Not the case on PS4.
 
PS4 - Digital - Infamous: SS and MGSV: GZ

Physical - Destiny, Lego Marvel, Knack, MLB The Show, Killzone (sold), Watch_Doges (sold).
 
PS4 : 2 Physical. 4 Digital.

I only have TLoU:R and MGS:GZ physically, purely for collections sake is the reason I didn't go digital with them. Next physical games are Uncharted 4 and MGS5. Then I'm done with physical altogether.
 
wiiu 3 physical 0 digital
ps4 1 physical 0 digital (note I don't actually own a ps4 I just own a game for it lol)
if given a choice I will almost always choose physical. The only time I don't if I don't have a lot of interest in a game, and it ends up going on sale for 5-10 while the physical version is still $20+ thus I own a couple retail playstation vita titles digitally even though there are physical versions because the digital version was on a really good sale.
 
PlayStation 4
All digital: 20 games (not including Plus, indies, etc.)

Retail I do have Skylanders Swap-Force and will get Trap-Team; along Disney Infinity I guess.
 
PS4 - 5 digital, 5 retail
It should be noted that of those that were retail, I sold 4 of them and only possess one...which was free. I rent a lot of games through gamefly however, if that counts for anything.
 
Wii U: 1 retail / 16 digital
PS4: 3 retail / 6 digital

Space is a premium for me. I only go retail if I can get a significant discount.
 
Xbox1- 5 digital games (excluding ea access) and one retail game which was a gift. I will be 100 percent digital with the bone besides the occasional gift.
 
If the games have to have been released in retail as well, then

PS4 Retail: 1, Digital 1

( retail: inFamous:SS, digital: Knack)

Wii U: Retail 4 Digital 1

(retail: New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8 and Zombie U, Digital: Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD)
 
Wii U: 2 retail, 1 digital

(ZombiU & W101 retail, MK8 digital. Bundled WWHD and Pikmin 3 from the MK8 promotion.)
I'd buy more digital, and more games in general, if the thing had larger storage.
 
PS4: 10 retail, 2.5 digital (Ground Zeroes on sale, Entwined, Resogun expansion; won't count PS+ free games in the total)
XB1: 5 retail, 1 digital (Killer Instinct since it was digital only)
Wii U: 6 retail , 0 digital

I prefer physical copies, so I avoid digital unless I have no choice or if it's on sale/cheap
 
Wii U : 0 digital 8 physical
PS4 : 1 digital 5 physical
XBone : 0 digital 4 physical

I'd like to go all digital but pricing keeps me away. Unless you include Vita, I haven't bought a single physical game for it.
 
PS4: 8 digital 7 physical
WiiU: 2 digital 3 physical
XBoxOne: i don't have one


I'm not counting the digitial free title for MK8 here
 
PS4: 6 retail, 1 digital

Wait, the game also has to have physical/retail counterpart? Then 0 digital. FEZ is not available retail. Otherwise, I'd have bought it retail.
 
As far as current gen consoles:

Wii U: 8 retail, 2 digital both from the MK8 promotion

PS4: 1 retail, 1 digital, all the rest rentals and PS Plus games

3DS: 2 retail, 1 digital (a code I got cheap from ebay)

C4Lukins said:
As long as the company does not go belly up, you should be fine with digital. I have 6 plus year old 360 games that are no longer available on the marketplace for purchase that I can still download at will.
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That's cool. I just don't trust the closed ecosystem of the consoles to do something like let me redownload my games five, let alone ten, years from now, and that bothers me. I "own" almost 300 games on Steam because I know I'll be able to get them again even if Steam dies. Even still, it took steep discounts to make me bite. GOG's the only other service I really trust, for obvious reasons.
 
Fisty said:
I think physical is a horrible idea. Discs break, become hard to find or rare, collectors hold them hostage for a high price... but hey its all about options.
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That's not much of counter-point to "Sony and Microsoft will eventually end PSN and XBLA support for the PS3 and X360, respectively." At least with physical media you have options even after a product is no longer being distributed.

Anyway does anyone truly believe you wont be able to download ps3 games in 5 years? Thats a ridiculous notion.
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Perhaps not within five years, but Sony and MS aren't going to support the PS3 and X360 forever. Just look at Sony killing PSN support for the PSP, essentially rendering the PSP Go functionally useless, or MS giving GFWL an end date, which is going to leave some PC games in a catatonic state, officially speaking (i.e. ignoring the legally grey area of pirating a game you paid for that's no longer functional), as not all support offline/local profiles.

scitek said:
That's cool. I just don't trust the closed ecosystem of the consoles to do something like let me redownload my games five, let alone ten, years from now, and that bothers me. I "own" almost 300 games on Steam because I know I'll be able to get them again even if Steam dies. Even still, it took steep discounts to make me bite. GOG's the only other service I really trust, for obvious reasons.
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Valve guarantees as much, in fact.
 
PS4 - retail 5 / digital 0
WiiU - retail 15 / digital 1 (the Super Luigi U add-on, this is DLC but is also available as retail).

I will only buy indie games digitally, i'm not going to license a full game digitally for £40+.
 
PS4: 1 digital, 5 retail

I bought Destiny digitally just for convenience, eventhough it was a bit more expensive. If I enjoy Driveclub, I'll buy that also digitally as it'll be more convenient to just hop in and drive few races without needing to keep the disc at hand. It's likely I'll be playing them for longer than the usual games, as both of them have more content planned for the coming months.
 
PS4: About 10 digital, NO physical.

Kicking myself too, as soon as I got stuck into Diablo III I realised I should have bought the physical to celebrate its awesomeness.
 
So far for me it's

Ps4 12 retail 1 digital
Wii u 7 retail 0 digital

I have many digital through free offers etc but I prefer my games to drop through the post box. Only exception was the golf club for obvious reasons.
 
PS4: 5 digital, 5 retail
WiiU: 1 digital 1 retail

All my digital PS4 games are US/JP versions. All retail are EU copies.
 
JaseC said:
Perhaps not within five years, but Sony and MS aren't going to support the PS3 and X360 forever. Just look at Sony killing PSN support for the PSP, essentially rendering the PSP Go functionally useless, or MS giving GFWL an end date, which is going to leave some PC games in a catatonic state, officially speaking (i.e. ignoring the legally grey area of pirating a game you paid for that's no longer functional), as not all support offline/local profiles.
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It's hardly "functionally useless", you still have complete access to everything you've purchased via the webstore and PS3
 
WhoEvenIsDriu said:
It's hardly "functionally useless", you still have complete access to everything you've purchased via the webstore and PS3
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Ah, I figured PSN support being axed would preclude people being able to re-download their stuff. My underlying point still stands, though: superseded or otherwise chiefly redundant digital services aren't exactly known for their longevity.
 
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