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Frogger on 08 October 2015
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PAOerfulone said:

You, yourself, felt the need to bring it up, and why did you?
Because, it was clearly a factor that played into the OG Xbox One's downfall, that's why.
Used games policy that force new games and digital down people's throats.

And the vast majority of gamers CLEARLY prefer physical.
Spem, you are THE ONLY person I have seen both in public and on the entire internet, who is ok with this idea of an all-digital system.
Everyone else is dead set against the idea. And let me tell you why, for one reason.
So, get off your love affair and high horse with your digital preference and think for one minute
An all-digital system is alienating that entire vast majority of gamers who prefer physical, and will get physical if they have the chance.
That is their preference, that is their choice as consumers and as gamers, do you honestly think that it is a good idea to take that preference, and that choice, away from them? When there are 2 other console makers that DO give them that choice, you know what they're gonna do, they're gonna say "Fuck you, Nintendo, I'm going with Sony or Microsoft!" ANd I'm right there with them.
Nintendo, has a whole lot more to lose than they do to gain if they go all-digital with the NX, for that simple reason. And they are in a position right now where they cannot afford to have another failed system, with the handheld market being pushed out the door by smartphones, and is evidenced by the declining sales of the 3DS/Vita as compared to previous generations.
And aside from the NES, SNES, and Wii, Nintendo hasn't had much success in the console business. Their entire hardware devision is hanging in the balance, they are RIDING on NX being a success.
And will alienating the entirety of console gamers, whom a large percentage of prefer physical, honestly help make that happen?


125m+ active Steam users, plus 25% of console owners, prefer digital, so your statistic on the vast majority of anyone prefering physical is completely false. Even then, I guarantee more than 2/3s of that remaining 75% are completely indifferent and won't care if its digital only, as long as they can play the games.

The used games issue was only an issue because the XBO had disks. It had nothing to do with being digital. It had everything to do with buying physical and not being able to do anything with that disk because XBO wanted to compromise and delete the game from your disk. That was stupid, and would have never been an issue if the XBO was digital only. It had everything to do with microsoft bricking your $500 console if you didn't connect to the internet for 24 hours. None of the successful digital platforms do anything that stupid, and neither will the NX when its all digital.

It won't alienate any singificant amount of people. That is without question. Digital didn't alienate any significant ammount of people when it dominated TV and movies, music, books, and PC gaming. It's not going to magically cause a riot when it happens on console.

It absolutely 100% is not just okay, but nessecary to take that choice away. That's the only way the NX's goals and ambitions will happen. People are living in a wonderland if they believe that anything Nintendo has been saying is possible while being anchored to physical media. Most won't say "fuck you, Nintendo." Most will see the NX Zelda, or Metroid, or Mario, or Pokemon, or Smash/Kart/Splatoon/3rd party exclusive/etc, and say "I'll get over it." Then they'll get over it. And then they'll love it like what happened in the PC gaming ecosystem. The idea that any majority of consumers in 2016 will look at an all digital console and think "this has all the games I want, is plenty powerful, and has everything I want in a console otherwise, but I'm not going to get it solely because I can't put the games on my shelf" is absurd.

So they don't have anything to lose with a digital NX platform, and everything to gain in the immense amount of ground breaking tools and features only possible with a unified gaming platform completely divorced of physical media anchoring it down. The 3DS and Vita are not signs of a declining market. The 3DS, which is selling like a juggernaut, is the sign of an uncharacteristically successful predicessor outselling it, and the Vita is the sign of a completely undesirable mass market product failing as everyone should have expected, like literally every other peice of hardware Sony has released in the last 5 years that isn't the PS4.