Why does it has to be a “move to”. This topic is always dramatic every time for no reason, we already have the doomsday scenarios
Just buy the game in the way that is most convenient for you. Physical for big games when you don’t have much space. Digital for multiplayer or games that you always come back to so you don’t change carts all the time. That being said it’s pretty obvious how advantageous digital really is nowadays. Extra storage space is cheap now so you can just, you know, install everything you own. Games have constant patches nowadays so even physical doesn’t mean much. Digital sales are a million times cheaper, it’s not even close. Much better than buying the physical version of some sub 1GB game for like twice the price. Meanwhile when buying used physical games, you gotta hope it’s not damaged. Last disc game I bought, I needed to use toothpaste for it to stop having disc reading errors. Never had that problem for cartridges thankfully but it still gives me anxiety when it doesn’t seem to read the game. The only good physical deal I ever had for a Switch game was because the cover was messed up. Otherwise digital is way cheaper and it saves plastic
I don’t wanna hear anything about “selling a licence to use the game”, digital sales are so much cheaper that it basically undoes the fact that you can’t resell your game (which only matters if you only buy fully priced new releases at all times). Like, I guess that when you go to the movie theater, you pay for the theater but even then you’re still paying to see a movie for one time. When you buy digitally a game that you would have sold afterwards, well who cares that you don’t technically own it, you basically pay for the fraction of a movie ticket and you get to complete the game. You also have the extra covenience of not having to change carts, to worry about physical defects. Meanwhile when you go outside to have fun, you pay for 3-10+ times the price of a digital game on sale for like one evening and that’s not including food. That’s why it’s a non-issue that you can’t resell or not technically own that one overhyped by forums flavor of the month game, you still got it for the cheapest you would have ever got