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d21lewis on 22 April 2014
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fleischr said:
d21lewis said:
Wii U not doing bad enough for you? You're a cruel man.

Anyway, the entire OP seems to be about getting the Wii U to cost less. It won't reduce costs that much and retail games are often cheaper to purchase than digital. As a consumer, I see no positive side to buying a digital only Wii U.

Downloading on day one when I could already be playing? Losing my games with my console? Not having every game available (didn't know certain games were disc only, did ya?). Can't rent or borrow? No. Not an appealing prospect.


I know some games are disc only. Mass Effect 3, Skylanders being amongst of them, but I don't think digital distributiion for any game would be too hard to achieve.

As noted in another reply I had to this thread, the account system could be changed so games aren't locked to the hardware.

Games that load faster when played -- that's plus.

Being able to buy games from home -- also a huge plus.

Of course waiting for the game to download kinda sucks, but you can always play another game while that's taking place.

The purchase price of the console is the biggest barrier to entry. Even if this is not appealing to you, many others would be more pragmatic.


The downside--for some reason, even though games from an HDD improve performance on PSP, 360, PS3 (games with optional installs), and probably a few other examples, from what I've researched, there aren't any games that improve on the Wii U when played from an HDD.  I was kinda shocked.

Being able to buy games from home is a plus for some.  I even considered it a couple of times.  The few retail games I do have on my HDD (Res Evil, Game and Wario, Monster Hunter) I kinda wish I'd grabbed at physical copies of instead.  Especially Game and Wario.  Loved all of the Wario Micro-games and adventures but I really dislike Game and Wario.  It would be one of the few games I'd actually want to return to the store.

Resident Evil Revelations took forever to download and it was only like 13GB.  I think Wii U download speeds have improved since then, though.

I respect your points though.  I know that my opinion doesn't equal everybody's but I think it would be a terrible idea.  Worse than the PSP Go, if you ask me.