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Frogger on 08 October 2015
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SpokenTruth said:

1. Imagine the average granny trying to buy a digital voucher for a game for little Johnny.  You really expect that to work as well as a brick and mortar store front?  And you expand the consumer bas by offering both options.  Not removing one.

2. My point is that you are using that patent to prove their next system with no have physical media. 
A. Diskless doesn't mean digital only.  Have you forget about solid state media?
B. The patent notes the use of a diskless system so that the actual intent of the patent can focus on media on the hard drive and the management of the data speed between it and the RAM.  That doesn't mean their next system is diskless.  I've already told you that they do this all the time.  ALL patents do this.  ALL of them write the environment of the patent in a way to draw better focus to the actual content of the patent.  You (and the games media who have never gotten a patent right to begin with) are focusing on that environment portion of the patent and completely ignoring the actual patent itself.

Again, go read it.  And read other Nintendo patents. And Sony, MS, LG, Samsung, etc...


1. I am imagining it, and the average granny will have no issue buying that voucher. You're acting like it'll be some obtuse product. It will be the exact same purchasing process as buying a physical game. You go in the store, see the game on a shelf, pick it up, walk to the clerk, and buy the game. Have you ever purchased a download code before? You're acting like this is black magic. The granny probably won't even realize she bought something different than a physical game. Apple expanded their consumer base by offering only one - digital. Now they are the biggest brand in the world. Nintendo will do the same.

2. I am.

  • A. I haven't. I just am not going to entertain a notion as absolutely absurd as a company in 2016 going against all modern practices to produce a unified platform who's primary form of media is cartridges. Diskless does mean digital only, because there is absolutely no benefit to dropping disks for carts, which is why no successful software platform company, in any media across the board, uses them as their primary form of media, let alone physical media.
  • B. Yes, it does. If the patent was meant to include a feature they didn't plan on dropping, they would not have dropped it while explicitely pointing out that they were dropping it. I don't need to read it again. The intents were perfectly clear the first read through.