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Kagerow on 25 August 2015
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spemanig said:
Mystro-Sama said:

A million different surveys have been done over the years about this and the result is always the same and that is physical is preferred by the vast majority over digital. Considering how weak Nintendo's presense is in the console market right now it would be suicide to go digital only. And what's wrong with having a choice? Why does it have to strictly digital only. The consumer in no way benefits from this.


Yeah they do. People don't know what they want until they have it. If Apple listened to surveys, their entire empire wouldn't exist because "we don't own our music anymore." It wouldn't be suicide. It would be massively successful, and if any company can get away with doing it first, it's Nintendo.

And the consumer definitely benefits from is. All the innovative things that come along with the innovation that is a unified gaming platform cannot seamlessly exist without being digital. Digital dominates music. It's dominating books. It's dominating TV. It's dominating film. It's even dominating PC gaming. To think that it's too soon in 2016 for it to dominate consoles too is, very frankly, absurd.

 

Partial agreement and disagreement there, I don't think 2016 being too soon for complete digital is absurd. In fact, opposite is true, 2016 is absurdly soon for going complete digital... For investor perspective. No sane investor will allow Nintendo to take such expensive risk right after Wii U's failure. Not that any of the actual executives in Nintendo is going to listen to them after ignoring 4 years of endless whining from every stock holders.

Only thing that fundamentally prevents innovative idea and technology is its price, and if Steam taught us anything it is that going digital is more profitable than going physical

Yes, good internet is not available everywhere yet. But expecting nothing is going to change is more absurd, and factually wrong. (1)

Since Nintendo is openly embracing USB 3.0, it won't be too difficult to release external optical drive new console for people who still want to use physical drive. This will effectively spread out the price of console, allowing Nintendo to place console at more appealing price point.

Spemaning's analysis and evaluation isn't really too farfetched.

1. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150625145236.htm