Macronix Claims NX Releasing This Year, They are Providing Memory Slots

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JRPGfan said:

shikamaru317 said:

spemanig said:

RolStoppable said:

You should realize that taking that path works against your initial premise (third parties won't want cards, therefore no cards). If third parties will complain about Nintendo regardless of what Nintendo does, Nintendo might as well go ahead and do what's best for Nintendo. So they'll go with cards as storage medium because it makes the most sense for them. There's no point in going digital-only when you can have both physical and digital options to buy software.

That's highly debatable imo. You say digital only positively impacts 3rd parties, but does it? Quite a few gamers refuse to buy digital games, so a digital only console means that 3rd parties miss out on those potential sales. You say that it positively impacts Nintendo, but does it really? Is it worth it being the first of the console makers to piss off retailers by going digital only, retailers could respond by giving them less shelf space and in-store advertising which could hurt hardware sales, better to wait out Sony and MS and let one of them make the first digital only console. Then there's the fact that Nintendo consoles are frequently bought by parents for children, parents buying for children often go physical, not digital.

I think a mix of carts and digital is the safest bet for Nintendo. Carts could run on both the handheld and console for the games that have crossplay, just like digital can. Both cart and digital match with the unified architecture that is rumored for NX.

 

^ Nintendo cant pull off a all digital console right now (I think nintendo would be hurt more from all digital than Playstation or Xbox would).

I honestly believe it would kill them (Nintendo sales wise).

If NX is all digital I could see the NX selling less than the Wii U, and the NX handheld selling less than the 3DS Vita.

I agree with you.