@nhSnork Agreed on co-existence of the two, as I basically already mentioned at the end of my previous comment, and for clarity's sake:

I don't sell any of my games (or consoles/handhelds) either, but the option should be there if you'd want to do so, and even if you don't sell your own games, you might still want to purchase some used games yourself, but if the future truly is all digital, then it's bye-bye to those options.

I just like options, basically. Even if I don't make use of all of them, it's still nice to have them...

As someone who largely prefers physical games, I also find these cases with a code in them to be extremely useless, a waste of paper and plastic, and I don't see any collectible value in them either, even though I'm not a die hard collector myself, so in that regard, I could be wrong.

Concerning digital games support, I simply cant and don't agree.

In my honest opinion, a lot of people see this digital future in a far too positive perspective. In comparison to the relative hassle free ownership of physical games, there's no guarantee whatsoever, that I'll be able to play any of my Xbox One games, for example.

And that even concerns being able to play the physical ones, in any kind of legal way, seeing as we know, that much like PS4 games, these too must currently also be installed to be able to play them in the first place, and Microsoft and/or the publishers/developers of the game can simply disable the games remotely if they'd choose to do so, or send out a patch/update to remove certain options in the game, like multi-player/online support.

Or, like I said before, simply stop supporting the game altogether, such as can easily be seen in the backwards compatible original Xbox games, that have little or no online capabilities anymore.

Some games will still function just fine without the online component, but companies might still decide to disable/cripple the entire game, regardless of that fact, meaning that all you'd be left with, is a bunch of useless one's and zero's.

Space-hogging data on your hard drive, and definitely not part of a carefully selected collection that you can still cherish for several decades to come...

The only option left would then be to hack/softmod a console, and play with patched versions of these updates, that will undo all the official restrictions put on games for whatever reason.

Another simple example is all the pre-online consoles: I own quite a few, and I take great care of them, and can (and do) still use all of them on a regular basis. From the cartridge based N64 to the Sega Dreamcast and the GameCube. I can still play ALL the games I ever bought for those, since they aren't susceptible to modern day's gaming restrictions, such as the ones I mentioned before.

I don't like someone else being able to cripple the game that I bought and paid for with my hard-earned money. I still want to be able to play that whenever I want, for decades to come, much like I'm now doing with my N64. Dreamcast and GameCube.

It would seem that in that respect, the future is looking pretty bleak indeed, for me and other people who feel the same way.

On a brighter note, I might finally be able to have more than enough time to address that by now truly MASSIVE backlog of mine, so I could basically choose become a "retro" gamer...

Then again: the future might surprise us all, and I did buy a current gen console, even though I knew full well what the implications were and were going to be for me, so maybe I'll still give in to the upcoming generation as well. No, make that probably...