Only on rare occasions.  I prefer physical copies of my games.  It takes something truly exceptional or eye-catching for me to buy it as a download, though I will admit to buying a number of Virtual Console releases simply because the physical versions of those games are either impossible to come by today or because the batteries in the cartridges have gone dead or are close to dying.

I think the older generation prefer to have physical copies of their games so can hug and pamper them. Like books, I just prefer a physical copy of it opposed to an e-book of it.