| green_sky said: He could spam thread after thread faster than Spurgie admitting that he was wrong. Yet it won't make up for months and months of reading his monotone digital love affair posts. Big problem is that he doesn't even understand why people like physical media or that offering both is the way to go. OT: Sure man, Sony da best. I make your day. |
I won't be wrong, so there's nothing to make up for. I do understand why people like physical media, but those people will either get over it, or get something else. But more of them then now will just get over it and, better yet, prefer digital media for their objective benefits over physical. Offering both is not "the way to go" as it severely limits what can be done on a unified platform not tied to hardware when your software is physically tied to hardware. It's not happening. The smartphone revolution would have never happened with physical media, and the NX redefinition of a gaming platform won't happen with physical media. Literally everything they've been saying and doing since January of 2014 was leading up to a digital only platform. Half of what they've been saying makes absolutely no sense with a physical media-based console.
The membership program doesn't work with physical rewards for a platform that plays one game across multiple devices. Unless you think they're going to print you coupons based on your purchasing habits on the game you can return after you get the coupon and never play again. Unless you think they're going to overhere your conversation that you recommended a game to a friend, and their for qualify for a printable NX coupon to use in stores. Playing one game on both the portable and handheld makes is ungraceful, unreasonable, and expensive on a unified platform tied to accounts instead of hardware that uses physical media. Physical media completely undermines the idea that the membership program, which is already confirmed to be a digital program, will form the core of the NX platform. It can't be the core of anything if the audience is segregated to those who reap its benefits and those who don't. Miyamoto says here:
"So, particularly with digital downloads now and the idea that you're downloading the right to play a game, that opens up the ability to have multiple platform digital downloads where you can download on one and download on another. Certainly from a development standpoint there is some challenge to it, because if you have two devices that have different specs and you're being told to design in a way that the game runs on both devices, then that can be challenging for the developer—but if you have a more unified development environment and you're able to make one game that runs on both systems instead of having to make a game for each system, that's an area of opportunity for us."
That the genesis of the NX "play one game on multiple devices" comes only because the emergence of digital downloads and that the whole idea of a unified plaform at all is a digital one. That directly contradicts the NX supporting physical media. The entire unified platform is a digitally based one, from not being tied to hardware, to running the same OS across multiple form factors, to account based relationships, to flexible pricing on digital purchases, to a focus on the eshop, the Nintendo Network, and the market place, to the entire membership program, none of that is possible to the extent Nintendo has been describing on a device that supports physical media.
Compromise stifles progress. You don't compromise progress. You just progress. Nintendo won't compromise. Not on digital media.
