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Died in 2007 or so (so almost 20 years ago). The PS3 gaming experience was download updates on day 1 even and that was bad; especially for 2007. Many games had updates that would download on day 1 of their release too.
There was a version of the PSP Vita which was download only. That was 2011/2012.
I didn't keep up with consoles post leaving Sony but it was as far as I know not much as changed.
I think Steam has the same issue on PC gaming too. I bought some "physical games" back in 2010 or so and they just turn out to be steam codes.