But there is no reason that physical should be less expensive than digital. If console people asked/demanded a proper digital platform the games would/could become cheaper. The hate that consoles had when MS tried to go digital makes no sense. I get they are sometimes cheaper sometimes (that makes sense and why they are bought), but my point is why anyone would want all that crap around their house (collectors I can see) when there is a better option. Why does the console universe not go digital?
Physical IS cheaper than digital for consumers right now.
That is the fact of the matter.
So, while you try to wrap your head around why anyone would physical, there's the most easy to comprehend point.
Do you like spending more or less money on things?
I for one like spending less money on things if I can.
However, even if physical and digital were both the same in this example of me buying Uncharted. I'd still buy physical because I know as soon as I finish the game I can flick it off and make back half if not more of what I paid for it.
Again because I, like most people in the world, prefer to have more money.
It isn't that they are cheaper "sometimes" they are basically always cheaper aside from rare online sales that are few and far between. For regular everyday consumption, physical is cheaper.
The hate about MS trying to go digital stemmed around the idea of it being "always on" thus entirely dependent on the internet to play but again you're going to have to develop the ability to put yourself in the shoes of someone else. Besides that anyone is subject to the possibility of their internet going out. The issues of MS wanting to go online only wasn't an uproar against digital media.
Besides that, I wouldn't really label some game cases as "all that crap". Mine go neatly in my TV cabinet, it isn't a big deal in the slightest.
You are correct there's no reason that physical should be cheaper, but it is. Why it is has nothing to do with peoples decision to go buy a physical copy and has everything to do with the people who make those decisions. At this stage your point has divulged into console people should start some mass uprising to force that to change which is just ridiculous.