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Would you buy a digital only console?

Yes 163 19.45%
 
No 479 57.16%
 
Maybe leaning yes 92 10.98%
 
Maybe leaning no 104 12.41%
 
Total:838
MikeRox on 16 May 2016

Already had a PSP go and my PC is exclusively digital, so yes.



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Sixteenvolt420 on 16 May 2016

Hell no i wouldn't. Not unless the games are $30 new, rather than $60.



Swordmasterman on 16 May 2016
Normchacho said:
spemanig said:

That shouldn't matter since the NX is using carts.

Yeah wait...Didn't you say it was going to be digital only? So which do you believe?

I prefer the one with the Carts.



Swordmasterman on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
SvennoJ said:

The average internet speed is a lot lower than what an internet speed poll results into on this site.  Enthusiast gamer if you like that better than hardcore, whatever you want to call the segment that plays full priced games multiple times a week and frequents game sites.

PSPGO was late, yet was also boycotted by many retailers, definitely not promoted. Ouya was indeed the ouya.

Anyway what's different now, why would retailers promote a system that doesn't make them any money. And that world average internet speed is real, plus data caps are in a lot of places as well.

What's different is that the NX is a new system, not a revision of a dying one. Enough people have a high enough internet speed for digital only to be more than viable. It's a ludicris leap in judgement to believe that good internet is restricted to people who play games in a post-smartphone world.

I'm sure that there have less people wanting to purchase a Console and who have  a Faster enought internet for a 100% System than Wii U Owners.



topolino227 on 16 May 2016

out of around 680 Euro on Games + DLC i have spent 550 Euro on Digital Games on PS4 ! I only have GTA and BF Hardline Retail, everything else digital !!!

So yes i would have ZERO Problem if there is an ONLY Digital Console, because well im almost ONLY digital :D



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SvennoJ on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
SvennoJ said:

The average internet speed is a lot lower than what an internet speed poll results into on this site.  Enthusiast gamer if you like that better than hardcore, whatever you want to call the segment that plays full priced games multiple times a week and frequents game sites.

PSPGO was late, yet was also boycotted by many retailers, definitely not promoted. Ouya was indeed the ouya.

Anyway what's different now, why would retailers promote a system that doesn't make them any money. And that world average internet speed is real, plus data caps are in a lot of places as well.

What's different is that the NX is a new system, not a revision of a dying one. Enough people have a high enough internet speed for digital only to be more than viable. It's a ludicris leap in judgement to believe that good internet is restricted to people who play games in a post-smartphone world.

If you're talking NX in particular, no way I would buy a digital only copy of Zelda or Mario.

Good internet is not restricted to people who play games, I'm merely suggesting that those that are enthusiast gamers and generally large consumers of digital content are more likely to get the higher data plans. Which is why, coming back to where this all started, I think the 35/65 split won't be any more in favor of a digital only console amongst the general public. At least not with full priced, full sized games.



Darc Requiem on 16 May 2016

No, unlike PC console game prices are higher and my library is unlikely to carry over to the platforms successor. I've been able to transfer my Steam library over to a new laptop twice in the past 8 years.



Alby_da_Wolf on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Currently full flat wireless contracts are available only for home, fixed station wireless, but mobile wireless and roaming dongles sometimes supplied with a home wireless contract have a monthly traffic limit of a few GBs, beyond which either the user has to pay an overprice, always or just to keep the top speed, or speed drops down to a few tens kbps.  Digital-only mobile and portable users couldn't even download a single full-sized game a month before their internet connection would jump back in time to the late 90's-  early 2000's until the next month. Good luck selling digital-only to them, those connection are good only for digital download of tens MB-sized apps and games.

There's reason to believe that the NXDS will have it's own data plan who's price will be incorperated into the price of hardware and software, as per an Iwata quote likening it to what Kindle Fire has done. Won't be an issue, and data caps from comcast are being raised to like 2TB this summer, so also not an issue.

Also, you're crazy if you think NXDS games will be 10s of MB each.

So Ninty will be able to sell it where telcos offer decent data caps with their normal contracts for end users and/or affordable plans with decent caps through Ninty (unless Ninty buys a telco in every market, it will have to strike deals with local telcos).
About game size, digital-only will have to deliver also full-sized games that in the previous gen were sold on physical supports, and those had sizes much larger than tens MB. And if there will be a unified library, the size of the largest games will be even larger.



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Danman27 on 16 May 2016

It entirely depends on what this means, and there's too many factors for me to decide at this point.



Jranation on 16 May 2016

If there is no other way then YES! I would not want to miss out on my fave franchises and awesome games.



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