The only benefits to digital are that you don't have to rely on retail for a physical version and that you can boot the game without having to insert physical media. You're trading every consumer right/benefit you have in purchasing games for the convenience of not having to move. It's dumb and lazy.
I feel like it's silly to dismiss this as dumb and lazy instead of just conceding that it's a different preference to your own. I feel like when some people envision why someone likes digital, they envision a person who is just too lazy to get their ass up off the couch and switch a disc, whereas I would argue that it's more of a lifestyle move. Not that I represent all digital purchasers, and not that you're super interested in my motivations, but I'll go into the benefit for myself personally.
Firstly, I never have traded in games very often. And as I grow older, I don't really find myself needing to loan out and trade games with friends. So for the most part, when I buy a game I'm more or less intending to keep it forever. Whether than means it's on constant rotation or just there to collect dust, the intent is that it's going to stay in my possession. So the ownership rights issue doesn't bother me. Further, I've been trained by years of PC gaming to accept this as the norm. I'm ok with my ownership rights.
Moving on, clutter is a real problem for both my wife and I. We already felt like we had too much crap, and now we have a four-year-old son and all the toys that he has cluttering up the house. I understand that some people love organizing their games and DVDs/Blu-Rays and having all that stuff prominently on display in their living room, but that's not us. Maybe if we were more organized, but we're not. It's bad enough that there's a Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, Cable Box, and PC all taking up space in the living room. I'd rather be as minimalist as possible with everything else.
And since I already mentioned the organization problem, keeping track of where discs went could often wind up being an actual annoyance as consoles get moved around the house across different TVs, particularly when you add in the kid wildcard into the mix. Really, it's just something that I'd rather not mess with when there's another option that's perfectly suitable to my needs. Digital ownership and Cloud streaming are godsends for us. I understand the potential pitfalls, but the benefits far outweigh them for me.
