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PerturbedKitty on 29 January 2016
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spemanig said:
PerturbedKitty said:

Having a unified platform doesn't mean that it HAS to be all digital. Nintendo does like offering digital, but if a lot of their consumers like physical, why wouldn't they supply that? And isn't Reggie on record saying that there will always be a place for physical format, or something to that effect? I think nintendo recognize that their fanbase especially likes physical products.

And as for that last bit, we will just have to wait and see. Music has been digital for years, but they still sell physical CDs. I can see games being handled in a similar way. People will always like physical products, and I can see why.

Having a unified platform in the way Nintendo has described it with the features they've described does.

Reggie said there would always be a physical thing. Never said anything about physical media. I think it will be NFC cards you can buy at stores with download codes for games. Still a physical thing. Nothing with the game's data on it. Basically just amiibo to unlock the game on your system.

Music isn't anchored to hardware like games are. The reason Adele can release an album on CD tomorrow is because 100 different companies are still making CD players that have not changed since the 80s. There are only 3 console manufacturers by comparison, and they only support their latest hardware platforms. If someone makes a game in 10 years, they can't release it on the PS4, because it will be obsolete. They are restricted by the platforms of the modern day.

In order for Adele to not be able to make a CD profitably, someone would have to literally burn every single on of the unquestionably billions of CD players that have been made in the last 30 years, including DVD players that support that functionality and the like, and then stop hundreds, if not thousands of companies from ever making any new ones. On the other hand, in order to stop a game dev from making a physical console game profitably, all you'd have to do is get three companies to not provide a disk/cart slot next generation. That's it. Physical dead. That easy. The music industry has a thousand alternatives who all use the same exact data format. The console market has three who use three different formats.

 

Personally, I don't think reggie would be that cryptic. I think he was using simple language that we would understand. He knows there is a conversation about physical vs digital and when you take what he said in thay context, it's very clear he is talking about physical media. 

I understand your point about CDs vs games, but ihonestly don't think that's why CDs still sell. why are people still buying CDs? Its because they prefer physical media. Simple as that.