In the UK I could buy the PS5 digital at a rumoured cheaper price, but would also be buying games at £15-£20 more from the PS store than I would of buying it physically from either a retail or online retailer. I'd be paying more for games in the long run.

Some countries it makes sense to go digital. Some it don't and in the UK it don't unless you like to waste money on the same game you can buy somewhere else for a third off the price that the PS store sells games at.

I will go for the disk version because of something that happened recently which showed the importance of physical media.

Here in the Dubai and other parts of the Middle East, The last of us 2 was banned. Now if I had only the digital version, I would be screwed as I wouldn't be able to download it from the store.

I was able to get a physical copy of TLOU2 through back channels thankfully, but that wouldn't be the case if I had a digital only version of PS5.

It could work in the later cycle with lots of storage.

Digital price will never be decent to sell physical stock and launch storage is not enough.

Absolutely. Couple years ago I had both the PS4 and Xbox One S. Most of my games were psychical discs on the PS4 whereas most of my games on Xbox were digital. Long story short fire broke out, lost everything in my house. A year later I eventually bought another Xbox and viola, all my Xbox games were still there.

Why are we still having a debate about this? They have options for both gamers. Get what you want.

I do kinda wonder if it's a false economy. For me in Ireland, PSN games at retail are €69.99, but you can buy disc versions for €49.99 (from the UK), so I do get the 'false economy' angle.

Yes but the pricing needs to follow physical media (and drop after a while), and not keep the prices at release price for so long.

I love being able to just click and play it without having to mess around with CD’s. However I never want to see physical disappear. We live in opportunistic, capitalist society, so digital only consoles are a very real threat to the industry and media as a whole. Yes it’s a great idea but the world is too much of a greedy place and corporations simply cannot be trusted. That’s fact.

Corporations and people within the industry will stop at nothing to see an all digital future. So that they can control everything and increase profit margins as much as they physically can. So as much of a benefit it is to us unfortunately we just can’t let it happen because us usual people will spoil it.

I've never rated buying digital copies of games, I just can't commit £50+ to a game that I'm more likely to not enjoy than enjoy.

Of course, as a majority PC Gamer, I'm stuck to buying digital copies. That said, buying a new game on PC can cost half as much of a digital game on the PS Store or XBL

When I do buy console games, being able to buy and resell copies of games is not only keeping the hobby cheaper, but also adding a little bit more fun into the mix. I love grabbing a bargain, playing through the game, and then selling it on to either break even or make a profit from.

No ability to bargain on pricing and sacrificing disc-based backwards compatibility?

Hard pass.

To each, their own, but it's not for me.

Sony and Micro testing the waters

Personally when I buy my Console I’d love to have the option of using discs, especially when I want to watch some of my home movies. Which I still buy from store fronts when good movies come out.

I'm not sold on the leaks that say the all digital console is $100 less than the model with a UHD Blu-ray Disc Drive, there's gotta be something else the BD Drive version would have to justify $100 more, other than UHD Blu-ray playback. A disc drive costs $20 to install in a desktop PC so cost would be more like $299 for all digital model and more like $349 for UHD Drive. I refuse to believe Sony can ask for $100 more for a disc drive, that's beyond unfair pricing and robbery.

No if your account gest banned then you lose all your digital games, if a company loses the license to an ip then it gets yanked from the digital store, if a game is an over hyped piece of shit then you cannot trade it in, if a digital game goes on sale its most likely not as cheap as a used version of that game, digital is great if you want to collect hard drives with various games on them, look at the all digital XB1 its only $50 cheaper then the one that plays discs not really saving a lot money on that deal.

It worth it if either it's cheaper and same amount of space as physical edition. It's worth it if you don't buy physical games. It's worth it if your going to get both to have both versions. I'm spoiling myself this year so I will be getting the digital and disc ps5

I want the physical, I like to have options with my gaming. I ain't mad at the digital-only version...I just like placing the physical disc into the console...reminds of me of the Genesis days. There is just something about that act.

Sure why not just as long its an option and not mandatory.

Hell to the no

The whole concept is bad. Price gouging will occurs with no used market.

I guess it depends on whether you ever have any intention of buying a physical game. With consoles I often purchase physical releases of full-retail titles, and some indie titles if those pop up. While I have been embracing digital more as time marches on for its convenience, an all-digital console wouldn't be a good fit for me.

Moreover, I'm a clear believer in having as much functionality as possible, rather than less, even if I don't necessarily plan to make general use of all of it. Heck, the laptop I have has a disc drive just in case I ever want to use it, even though I got it for Steam and other services that are digital-only.

So, no, I'm not a fan of digital-only systems, but to each their own. I suppose there will be some people who never intend to purchase a physical game and find saving $50 or whatever appealing, but it is not for me.