Could Stores Sell Digital Codes For The NX?

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ZombieVito on 21 February 2016

Nintendo doing a digital only console is suicide.

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wombat123 on 21 February 2016

Digital downloads would only work if there's a good incentive to switch to it and there really isn't much of that on Nintendo platforms. They don't have a good history in-terms of how digital ownership would work, they tend to maintain their 'Nintendo tax' on digital purchases, their sales are a joke compared to steam and their online infrastructure is still questionable. Unless Nintendo provides a noticeable discount on digital games compared to physical copies on the PS4 and XB1 or gives some other kind of incentive/feature, I can't see digital-only working.

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AlfredoTurkey on 21 February 2016

spemanig said:

Dunban67 said:

Msft tried digital only an ther was a revolt (warranted imo) - Now that Nintendo is pushing in that directon, it is the best thing snce sliced bread- Digital only is terible for the consumer- (as it relates to console gaming which is different than music, movies and even pc gaming, ESPECIALY if it is a Nintendo console)

No company tries to sell more stuff to the same people over and over again (and often nearly the same suff) than Nintendo- I own all the disk in my home but i do not own all the digital downoads on my console- I merely possess them temporarily at the whim of the console ower (Nintendo in my case) and possibly the software developer/publisher

It had nothing to do with being digital only. (which it wasn't) The revolt was around the console bricking and literally not working when you weren't online. That won't happen with NX. My Nintendo has already set up the infrastructure for a digital only library. Now we just wait.

Digital only is better for the consumer. It's not different from music, movies and PC gaming. That's a fallacy. Possessing digital games temporarily is a fallacy as well.

Being digital only means no used games which means no gamestop which means the vast majorty of gamers won't support it, since most uninformed consumers (aka, not us), trade games in towards new games.

The true reason for Xbox One failing was anti-used games. An all digital console takes that error to a whole new level.

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b00moscone on 21 February 2016

Of course. Already for Wii Us and 3DSs they sell code cards for games so i don't see why they wouldn't for the NX

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Dunban67 on 22 February 2016

spemanig said:

Dunban67 said:

Msft tried digital only an ther was a revolt (warranted imo) - Now that Nintendo is pushing in that directon, it is the best thing snce sliced bread- Digital only is terible for the consumer- (as it relates to console gaming which is different than music, movies and even pc gaming, ESPECIALY if it is a Nintendo console)

No company tries to sell more stuff to the same people over and over again (and often nearly the same suff) than Nintendo- I own all the disk in my home but i do not own all the digital downoads on my console- I merely possess them temporarily at the whim of the console ower (Nintendo in my case) and possibly the software developer/publisher

It had nothing to do with being digital only. (which it wasn't) The revolt was around the console bricking and literally not working when you weren't online. That won't happen with NX. My Nintendo has already set up the infrastructure for a digital only library. Now we just wait.

Digital only is better for the consumer. It's not different from music, movies and PC gaming. That's a fallacy. Possessing digital games temporarily is a fallacy as well.

People were VERY unhappy about digital only re the X1- among other things - Digital as an option for the consumer is fine, digital only for the consumer is terrible- I don t want to have to rent my games from Nintendo- Common sense says it is VERY different fro music, movies pc gaming etc- if you don t thik that ten you need to look again and not be so trusting of any large company