NSMB2, WiiU mark the birth of downloadable retail games on Nintendo consoles

[theRepublic]

happydolphin said:

theRepublic said:

If you can't connect to the internet, or the servers are down you are probably screwed though.  And what happens when the game is no longer supported?  That is not something that you really need to worry about with Starcraft, but for smaller digital services it is going to be a problem at some point.

We're talking about retail games offered digitally though, we aren't talking about smaller digital services as far as I'm concerned.

If Blizzard can do it, so can Nintendo. They are just not doing their homework by looking at how others are doing it, or they just don't care enough about our satisfaction.

What about third party games?  Didn't EA just shut down a bunch of servers for something not that long ago?

How long to you expect first parties to support the digital games?  Ten years?  Twenty?  Forever?  I will take my physical copy.