Switching to Physical Games to share with my Nephews

I've been thinking lately about my slow shift back to physical media nowadays. First I'd like to apologize. I am a bad media archivist. I have definitely been part of the problem.

Pretty much since I got into college I've mostly bought games digitally. The exceptions were games that I simply couldn't get any other way except physically - DS games, exported titles, stuff like that.

There are a two main reasons for this:

Laziness

I hate going out to shop, and I'm impatient as hell. So the fact that I can get a game dropped right into my lap at 10PM on the dot when it releases has been hard to resist.

Space

This one I feel like I can be forgiven on. I live in uh. Not the biggest apartment, and have for a while. I have to somewhat carefully pick and choose what I want to have occupy my physical space. As a result, I more often than not choose to have figurines and nanoblocks to sit on my shelves - stuff that can only exist in the physical world.

A shift has occurred for me these past few months, though, and I've been buying physical copies of games again, particularly on the Switch. This is because of my ^[1]nephews!

They're 7 and 10 as of this writing, and I've been sharing gaming as a hobby with them lately. It's cute and fun! Before I only ever bought games for myself, as it's been a solitary hobby in relation to the people I share a space with - my mom's not gonna be picking up Bayonetta any time soon.^[2]

But that's changed hanging out with my nephews! The lens with which I look at games I want to buy now includes them. I'll be picking up Mario Wonder in a box, so that I can pass it down to them the next time we hang out.

It got me thinking about sharing games with the family I might, potentially, possibly have some day. So I'll probably be going physical more often, at least with the stuff that I never want to lose. How else are my kids gonna learn about Gravity Rush you know-