In most cases they ask way more than they should for digital releases. IF digital releases were priced properly i would obviously not have a problem with them, but right now you get way more bang for your buck with physical releases. WAY more... You also have the ability to resell or trade them in. Some may even be considered investments as they can retain their market value or even increase in value later on. GOOD plus SOUGHT AFTER equals PROFIT lol

I have some 3DS games that are less than 5-10 years old and they are already worth triple times the amount i paid for them. Atlus games especially have a habit of going up in price relatively fast. I'm not a full-time collector and i do not buy games to resell them, but it is nice to know that they are not a complete waste of money and that i can at the very least get back what i paid for them after i'm done with them.

Keep your s**t CiB (Complete in box) and clean/scratchless. I did not do that before like the Nintendo Dual Screen and Sony Playstation 2. For example Castlevania Aria of Sorrow for the Game Boy Advance (PAL) is worth over 300 Euros CiB. I actually bought it one week before the release thanks to KT PELIPISTE breaking the street date. Anyway, i have lost both the box+manual and the game cart over time. Same goes for a number of GBA games and older stuff. I have no need for them anymore and would sell all of them IF i could actually find them...

The market is sort of hard to predict too. Sometimes the ''newest'' version has the highest price and in some cases the original is higher, though the trend normally is that the most recent update replaces the original and any previous updates. (Persona 3 FES takes the place of the original P3 for example) Also Atlus games are the kind that one could buy two copies and leave one unopened. Even a relatively recent (2018) Atlus game is around 300EUR CiB and some other Atlus games are also around 200EUR CiB.

Seriously now; If a game cost 49.99e Physical and 49.99e Digital, why would you pick the digital one... ? The digital version should cost much less because the distribution is simple and more or less limitless. It can remove costs over half of the value when compared to physical distribution+logistics.

I have a few exceptions where i bought BOTH. For example i grabbed Grandia collection, Chrono Cross, Castlevania Advance Collection and Deedlit from an eShop discount, but also bought the physical releases in NEW (sealed) format. And i also have 2 physical copies of Ys Origin... One CiB, one NEW. Long story short; ordered from two shops and both delivered around the same time. + CVAC is a numbered LRG release with CVHoD cover. (They have 4 different covers..)