| SpokenTruth said: 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. |
I'm not ignoring anything. You are. Digital only would grow their consumer base, not reduce it. The consumer base is used to a digital content delivery format, as the modern world is filled with them. Gifting would absolutely not be cumbersome digitally. Not only can someone just sent gift vouchers digitally, but there exists download code cards for digital games already. And with the NX, I'm 100% sure they will make that process even simpler by selling Amiibo that unlock games on your system specifically to tackle the situation you describe. A mom goes to the store, buys the Marvel vs Capcom NFC card/coin/figure, and then she'll just bring it home, wrap it up, and give it to little Ludwig on Christmas day. He opens the game box, takes out the amiibo, touches it to his NX, and it starts downloading the game. Problem solved. Digital only.
I have read it, and it is completely in explicit support of a digital only platform. It's about managing the data speeds between a HARD disk drive, not an optical disk drive, to ram. HDD, for the digital only platform. I don't know what imaginary point you're trying to make there.
