Nintendo 3ds physcial or digital games?

I prefer physical because you can normally find it cheaper than on the nintendo store, but then again i dont play my 3ds any more

i dont really own any nintendo handheld , but id go with physical tbh.

Awesome, I have an old 3DS xl ^^
I'd go with physical, if it turns out you don't like a game/ completed it, you can resell them.
That being said, I have all my games digitally, but that's because I didn't pay for them. I recommend a Sky3DS+ if you want that.

I prefer a physical copy if I have the chance to get one, otherwise a digital copy is ok. I mostly play at home so I don't benefit much from a digital copy anyway.
But digital is fine too, some games are only available in that format or may be hard to find in physical form. And you can install more than enough easily, it uses microSD cards which are really cheap and most games don't take a lot of space. I got a 32GB card for like 13€ when I bought it and I still have a lof of storage available.

Both, new released games, physical. Older games, digital (only if they have discounts in the eshop).

Personally I prefer physical games in this case because:

• You can share them
• You have the option to resell them later if you no longer want them and a lot of Nintendo games (especially first-party titles) tend to hold their value well
• They tend to go on better sales than digital games even though that would seem to be counter-intuitive

As you pointed out the advantage to digital versions of games is not having to take cartridges with you, but to me personally this issue is negligible (plus I have a nice case that can accommodate up to 8 games) and is far outweighed by the advantages of physical carts imo (as outlined above). If digital games were offered significantly cheaper than their physical counterparts then it might be a different story, but this is not the case.

The only games I get digitally are those that are not available on carts, such as virtual console ones. The only other exception I have made to this is in a special case where the digital version of a game was discounted high enough and it was actually significantly less than looking for a physical version. Specifically I am speaking of Resident Evil Revelations which has frequently been 75% off, but which can no longer be found in retail stores. Unfortunately it is generally an aberration and not the rule for digital games to go on sale for cheaper than physical.

Always physical.

For such closed systems, when the online shop will finally close down, you will lose all digital purchases.

If you care about replaying games, physical since digital stuff can possibly "disappear". If not, whichever is cheaper. For me, 9 times out of 10, when I play a game I'll never play it again so I don't care about "losing" it later so I always buy digital for convenience since the games are identical in either format unlike movies or music.

With Nintendo, always physical. I simply don't trust Nintendo enough to give me eternal access to all my games anytime at any point in the future, because they are the most anti-consumer company in a market which has companies like Valve in it. At least with Valve you're more or less guaranteed permanent access to your license once you pay for it, if you obtain it legitimately, but with Nintendo's poor decisions in renting games, online purchases being tied to one console and so on, they can flip anytime and remove games from their stores as well as remove the ability to download it. They're just riding on the wave of nostalgia, and if they keep making poor decisions they'll face more trouble in the market.

Digital since I travel.

Both have advantages and issues. If you want a larger collection, it can't hurt to get a few digital releases during the rare sales the Nintendo eShop has for most games. Very few titles seem to repeat sales, and the ones that do are mostly shovelware, at least down here. US gets lots of Atlus sales though, lucky bastards.

Physical, since I don't buy them as often as for pc (usually found them cheaper in physical that digital), it's not bound to the console that way plus it makes for a nice display that I can look at or sell them if I don't like the game.

Physical, since I changed my console once and as long as I know I don't have the chance to resync in another console again , so if it gets broke I will lose all the games :l , and another thing, is that you can find physical games cheaper in some stores where people sell there games , and as a matter of having my games as "treasures"

Digital is nice for having a ton of games on you at once but I usually only dedicate myself to a game or two at a time anyway.

Like many others, I go physical wherever possible as the digital tends to go away. Funny, considering we're all here because we use Steam but I don't have 3,000 DS games ;)

The problem with Nintendo is that they're a very old, traditional company and they still believe this "internet" thing is a fad that's going away.

I would not trust them with a digital purchase until they show some sign that they're embracing the present. And with their subscription service on the Switch, it's obvious that they have no idea. They've basically just revived the old Satellaview (As in "BS Zelda") model, where there's only one game at a time and you lose access to the old game forever when they decide to trade it out for a different one.

Physical when you can and digital when you can't. The eShop is shit and should be avoided as much as possible but Nintendo games have a bad habit of having high resell value, which keeps used copies prices high :/. Ffs, Pokemon games have been know yo go up in value after a few years.