| SpokenTruth said: Wrong on many aspects. 1. Their next home console will have physical media. Optical discs or solid state but they will be a part of the system's primary game content delivery means. 2. They've developed dozens upon dozens of patents for system design, hardware functionality, software, etc... that never get used. I suggest you do a patent search and get ready to spend the next several hours pouring over several hundred documents. The USPTO alone has 4,471 patents related to Nintendo. In fact, they just filed one 2 days ago called "Game apparatus, game program and game system". It shows a disc system. Or the one published on Sept 1, that states in the first line of the abstract, "An exemplary portable storage medium stores therein a program of an application." A clear reference to some form of game on disc or cart medium. |
No, it won't. When everything they've been saying only works with a digital platform, they directly mention the importance of digital downloads in the realization of that platform, and then publish a patent explicitely removing the disk from the the platform with the explicit purpose of supporting a platform that matches their description, it becomes clear which patents hold water and which will go unused. The patent is only the direct confirmation. Everything Nintendo has been saying for the past two years has been leading to a digital only platform, with Miyamoto explicitely mentioning the nessecity for digital downloads in the realization of literally the most important feature of the NX platforms: playing one game across multiple pieces of hardware. The reveal of the membership program will be the next soft confirmation of many that the NX will be a digital only platform, when the program that forms the "core" of the NX platform reaps only digital rewards meant to reward only digital purchases tied to a digital, cloud-utilizing, membership.
And people will still be convinced that "this means nothing." A massive membership program that is spread across all platforms including PS and mobile and only effects and deals with digital purchases that literally forms the core of what the NX will be, as specifically said by Iwata, can't possibly be an indicator that the NX won't have physical media. When Iwata says "core to the NX," he really must mean "not at all core to the NX," since it can't be core to the NX if it doesn't universally effect every user in a significant way, which is exactly what making physical media the "primary game content delivery means" would do.
