To add to the conversation, there is very little benefit to digital purchases over retail.
1) You don't actually own a tangible product that you can sell, trade, give away, etc. essentially you're paying for the right to play the game instead of playing to own a product.
2) No cost difference on new releases despite drastic cost differences in production.
3) Limited space on hard drives -- The Last of Us Remastered is a 40GB download and is technically a last gen game. They're only going to get bigger. 500GB (or even a larger external hard drive) will fill up pretty fast with download sizes that huge. You lose the convenience. If you can only store 8-10 games (keeping in mind installs and patches), you'll lose the convenience of switching back and forth easily (really the only actual benefit of going all digital). It's much more convenient to get up and switch discs then to wait 2+ hours for an old game you had to delete to re-download.
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