I’m thinking of buying Animal Crossing for my Switch. My personal preference is always physical. But with the current issue, getting a physical copy is—rather a waiting game. Plus, I just learn I can skip sale tax if I buy from Nintendo. So—why not? I surely don’t wanna add $4 more just to pay sale tax. I like the aspect of having an actual card, something to hold on. Plus, they can’t just get rid of a game on a card. Right now, I can’t imagine them removing any games—like why would they? But who knows. A couple days ago, we were all birds flying peacefully wherever we need to go. Look at now, some government is threatening to fine their people for just leaving their home—and oh so many are call “the sky is falling.” I am worry about the future of physical game. If they go totally online? What’s your preference?
I bought smash, odyssey, rayman, mario kart and dbz to only sit on my ass and play pubg. Just get the digital one. Much easier.
Because I like MMO mostly, I don't know if any of them can be bought in physical but the ones I play are digital
Digital, I like having everything there, easy to access without having to change discs etc etc. plus I got a nice ssd for my ps4.
What can you invest in if the game is always gonna be available in digital? However, Nintendo do have the rights, as written in their privacy disclosure, that they can remove any games! So far, I have one digital games and the rest r actual games
When they no longer sell the physical games in the future, the price will raised. There are always collectors who's looking for that kind of things.
Digital is the most practical of the two, but for those who like to collect the box-art and get the collector's edition, the physical would still have merit.
... Well, go hard copy, for your grandchildren. They purge old music, cause it is better than the new Corporate B.S music, so that new can sell. They selectively show old movies, like old westerns where the American Indians are actual bad guys, are hardly ever shown, and hard to find on the internet.. Pretty soon , and it's already starting... Any non-SJW/Feminist compliant game showing sexy female figures, will be purged. At the very least, once all new games come with Pay to win features, and the next gen of gamers doesn't even know about how much used to be free... Well, go hard copy, for your grandchildren.
I just got my switch too and bought digital Animal Crossing. Pros: 1. No need to change disk, so if you get addicted / want to play everyday, it's no hassle 2. No tax & convenient to buy (I bought it online on eshop nintendo) 3. Easy storage & easy switch between games Cons: 1. Animal Crossing is quite big, so you might need SD Card if you are planning to buy other games too 2. Cannot resell
I'll buy digital first, but if I really like the game, I usually buy both. A physical copy so I can show to others how good a game it is. Plus, hard copies get cheaper after it's been out for a while...unless its been out for too long while and become more expensive due to collector novelty or whatnot.
For those who keep saying physical copies are an investment. I would like you to take an hour and look at the majority of titles Nintendo has sold in the past as physical copies and what they are actually worth today. Then tell me how paying current retail prices equals an investment towards a future payout. The number of titles that are later worth more than they retailed for or frankly more than you paid for them after they hit the bargain bin is miniscule in comparison to the number of total titles created for Nintendo systems. If you were talking about something like the old Game & Watch handhelds produced back during the 1980's and waiting 40 years to sell them off, I could maybe understand that. But with not only increasing trend towards ports and remasters but also the availability of emulators and pirate copies, I don't really foresee the great majority of your physical collection being any kind of investment of anything. The people who are likely to pay $90 dollars for a game you bought for $40 (yes, I sold a Gamecube copy of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance this way because it was a limited run title that had no digital version and was somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 years old.) probably bought a copy when it was on sale themselves thinking of it as an investment or a collection. Unless you just happen to stumble across someone who is really into retro gaming and wants to buy all physical copies of 20 year old games from the Wii, Wii U, Switch, Playstation 3 and 4, Xbox One and.... you get where I'm going with this, right? They are more likely to already have their own collection.