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gasgpmo posted...

I've had enough bad luck with physical media, that this kind of thing doesn't phase me. It's a nice feeling to have a physical collection of games. It's nice to look at on a shelf, it's cool. But eventually your console will fail in some way, even if you treat it like gold. Either it will die completely, or in my case, two of them just stopped being able to read discs for no reason. I can still use the consoles, but the physical games I have are useless pieces of polycarbonate plastic unless I replace the entire console or at least the disc drive.

All the digital games I have? Oh no, I don't actually "have" them. I don't technically own them, whatever that really means. But I can still play them.

Look upon my physical games collection, ye mighty, and despair.

https://youtu.be/NkywhsE0v18?si=eHBrx2j65BnAHxno

I'll refer you to Mutahar to explain more so I don't have to type as much, but I just have to say that anecdotally your cases don't really matter. I have a PS2 & GameCube that are old enough to be my children now that both still read & write to discs & function. Physical media let's you retain ownership over it, regardless of if you have a disc drive or not. Because you could always emulate those discs to a PC later on with the right know how & software as time goes on. PS4 emulation is starting to kick off now, in another few years you'll probably be able to play series X or PS5 games on a good rig too