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

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spemanig said:

shikamaru317 said:

PC was eased into digital over the course of a several years, it wasn't an overnight "sorry, you have to buy digital now". Even now physical is still an option on PC for many of the bigger games. 

Also, as an Xbox fan I surely haven't forgtten what happened to MS when they tried to announce a DRM heavy console that would hurt things like used game sales and rentals. Console gamers want things like used games and rentals, that's why MS got so much hate after the initial Xbox launch. Do you really want to see Nintendo go through what MS went through?

The iPod didn't. It was absolutely an overnight "sorry, you have to buy digital now," and now Apple is inarguably the most powerful tech company in the world because of it.

The NX will be the same, only it won't be even remotely risky because PC, mobile, and ebooks have been getting people ready for it for over a decade.

I've already address the flimsy MS argument far to many times here to be worth going into it again. When rumors arise that the NX turns into a brick where you can't play games your console after 24 hours of not being connected to the internet, we'll talk about the situation being even remotely coparable. Until then, it's not.

 

You're comparing 99 cent mp3 downloads that can easily be purchased on a whim to $40-60 games. PC games = Steam, which runs sales on quality games for bargain bin prices all of the time, many of them fairly new. Ebooks are also on sale quite often, if not outright free because of modern library services.

If Nintendo decides to start offering extremely cheap games that can be bought on impulse or doing huge flash sales, then maybe it could work. But a digital-only console that requires $40-60 per game isn't as comparable to mp3 players, PC gaming and eBooks as you think.