Yeah it will. The gaming population is just the modern population. Let's not pretend there's no crossover, because there is, especially in the matter of a digital platform, which is mobile, ebooks, streaming, mp3's, and PCs already.

Their handheld maybe.. home console, never. 

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/05/15/npd-reports-that-3-out-of-4-gamers-still-prefer-physical-games/

Don't worry. When nearly 75% of core gamers prefer physical, and 90% of your sales are also physical, you're not going to release a console that doesn't allow for that sort of thing. It would take some SERIOUS stupidity to try something like that. We're talking Virtual Boy stupidity level. lol

And yet some people still expected only digital console.

I totally agree that would be probably worst Nintendo decision after Virtual Boy, but I am 100% confident that NX want be only digital console.

Also those that doesn't like only digital wouldn't buy it too, so you right there you have -50% at least potential buyers for that console. That would be very very stupid decision, and of course Nintendo is not doing only digital console.

If we take the patent as gospel, Nintendo has much larger problems than digital or physical.

Another Nintendo console with a touchscreen controller is not going to sell to anyone but the same 10-15 million Nintendo hardcore fanatics.

Giving Sony a three year head start with hundreds of games in its library by then and a price point of $299.99 most likely ... who realistically but Nintendo fans are going to be choosing the NX as their go to console? Even the XBox One by then will have a 20+ million unit headstart. 

There better be a lot more to the console than the patent or they better hope the portable NX and smartphone games can carry the company (which I do think they can).

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A second screen won't be a problem with the NX because it wasn't one with the Wii U. The urganomics will be redesigned to replicate a traditional controller, and the whole thing will be much smaller. The gamepad's problems have nothing to do with having a screen. It was just an unurganomic, unwieldly abomination. A Vita sized screen with a boomering shape will be much more marketable than a giant fisherprice rectangle.

With what the NX is shaping up to be hardware and firmware-wise, plenty more than Nintendo fans will buy it. I've said this many times. Nintendo's problem won't be hardware and it won't be firmware. It'll be software. They need to cultivate a first party software environment where the mainstream western gaming audience would make the jump, and they've made absolutely no moves thus far to do that. Unless Retro Studios' game really is that "Uncharted-like" drastic change, and I don't think it will be, Nintendo's getting no third party support. Not because of bad hardware, but because Nintendo is doing nothing to change it's audience to one who cares about those game.

People don't like to hear this, but 95% of Nintendo games nowadays are niche. They shouldn't stop making those games, but there's a problem with them completely ignore the big trends in thr industry as if their way is selling better. It isn't. I keep saying this, but they need to make or purchase a massive AAA western branch like Square did with Eidos.

We all know that Wii U had much serious problems than touchscreen controller, also nothing indicates that will be again same Wii U gamepad.