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Rockies posted...

The idea that digital games can't resell for anything and therefore are the worse option is greatly oversimplifying it. That's true if you have a game that is equal price for both physical and digital, in equal condition, but I feel like that is common sense. I never intended to advocate for digital on a purchase-by-purchase basis with the physical version costing the same or less; of course in those cases physical is the smarter option.

But there are frequently sales where the digital price goes below retail, and digital retro games which make the better option less clear, especially where depreciation exists. In that earlier example, if the $50 game depreciated to $30, then it's a worse deal - you lose $20 so you can get rid of the game vs. losing $8 on the possibility that you might lose the game. And that's not taking into the account that buying a game is paying for the experience of playing it. You should pay less for that experience if you can, unless you want to sell the game later, but that's a risky move and you also end up selling the experience along with the game.

But that example only works when talking about buying older games on older consoles. I don't think I've ever seen a consoles game go down from $50 to $8 unless it didn't sell well for a more current console. If someone is buying the actual physical game for an older system, I think it's for more reason than just playing. The physical/digital debate I was using for most of my points are for the current games for current systems. Like I said earlier about retro games, most people will seem to buy digital because they don't have/never have owned those old system anymore. For that reason alone, you would buy digital. But for newer games, that's where most of our reasons are meaningful. That being said, the ones talking about selling them either already have them like the one who has the collection worth probably 40K-50K. Or they are talking about buying those games now to sell in the future. Meaning, they are buying current which are most likely the same price(or close to depending on where you get it) as their digital counterparts.
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