H_Prestige
Banned
The only real benefit of digital is convenience. You may or may not be able to play those on the next system so it may or may not be a benefit.
The benefit of retail is, cheaper price, ability to sell or trade your game, the ability to borrow or loan a game, and the only real guaranteed way to future proof yourself if you want to play your games in the future.
How do you guarantee no damage or theft of a retail game disc or flash card? I feel much safer in my purchase of FFVII off PSN than that old as hell CD set I have in my closet.
And even if convenience were the only benefit, convenience is a pretty big thing. I'd certainly rate it an order of magnitude more important than the retail benefits you mentioned. Can't sell a game? Big deal, all of my old games that I don't play are worth next to nothing anyway and I don't make impulse purchases anymore either.