| Captain_Yuri said: Well Nintendo could also make their own flash memory (like usual) which might lower the price enough to make it cost around the same as a 3ds cartridge (maybe a few of dollars more) but with a lot better space and then sell that to the third parties for less which is what I am assuming they do for the 3ds. Nintendo can also offset the cost to third parties by asking for less per game sold since currently its $12 on a $60 game. But at the end of the day, I doubt it will be "Digital Only" after the famous xbox One nonsense that happened and people certainly remember that... It might not be always "on" but I doubt people are ready to move on considering how the internet is around the world... But if it is Digital Only, then I shall acknowledge your epicness Could even be optical media even though the patent drawing doesn't have anything if what the neogaf members are saying is true since it apperently says in the patent that the OS can use optical media and play games but don't quote me on that since it's from neogaf |
A card with 8x the storage as the largest possible 3DS card won't cost merely "a few dollars more." And "a few dollars" more is exponencially more than the cents these guys are paying for bluray on competing systems. To think Nintendo would offset this by taking such a significant hit on their profit margins, and it would have to be significant, is putting a lot of blind faith in a company who just came off a console with record losses.
The XBO wasn't ever digital only, and the bad PR on that has no baring on the NX at all. A failure on one platform doesn't mean a failure for everything else. Literally everything else is digital only only now. Steam has 65m+ users "around the world" and its digital only. Apple and android eclipse that, and they're digital only. People need to stop acting like gaming is such a different media from everything else. Once someone big enough does it right, everyone will hop on, like Apple did with music, like Netflix did with movies, like Kindle did with books, and like Valve did with gaming on a PC.
But again, we're just going back and forth at this point. Wait and see. 2016 is a ripe year for the first digital only console.
