SpokenTruth said:
spemanig said:
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.
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You are looking at the trees and ignoring the forest.
Digital only would reduce their consumer base. A consumer base that works best under a physical content delivery format. Think gifts. Nintendo says they obtain over 50% of their annual revenue during the holiday period. That means gifts. Gifting is incredibly cumbersome digitally and would drastically reduce their holiday revenue. Not goign to happen.
Also, I read the patent. Have you? It's not simply about a diskless console, it's about managing the data speeds between the disk drive to the console RAM. Read the whole thing. ALL of it. Then get back to me.
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Spemanig just got owned haha.
I can't wait for Nintendo to announce the NX with a disk drive so you can shut up about this.
