| RolStoppable said: Will be great to see a physical storage medium being confirmed by Nintendo, then you'll finally stop with this. It's simply too soon to go digital-only, nevermind the headaches with retailers (they would demand a significantly higher profit margin on hardware sales) and displaying NX in stores (a wall of games sells hardware better). |
I'm not remotely worried of that happening.
It isn't too soon. Every single electonics media platform has a digital only offering aside from consoles. Nintendo will fix that. They've been all but confirming it for the past two years. Retailers would get over it like they got over every other digital only platform.
Here's what Miyamoto said in June 2014 on the subject of what, in hindsight, is obviously the NX:
"So, particularly with digital downloads now and the idea that you're downloading the right to play a game, that opens up the ability to have multiple platform digital downloads where you can download on one and download on another. Certainly from a development standpoint there is some challenge to it, because if you have two devices that have different specs and you're being told to design in a way that the game runs on both devices, then that can be challenging for the developer—but if you have a more unified development environment and you're able to make one game that runs on both systems instead of having to make a game for each system, that's an area of opportunity for us."
Miyamoto is literally saying that the unified platform is coming to light because of the advent digital downloads.
Keep dreaming about shared cartridges, though. I'm sure third parties will love that.
