Not even an iota of a chance. Too expensive. Nobody will go for it.
There is very little resistance from consumers for all digital. Digital Purchases have been increasing every year for years, to the point where games are now selling are digitally than physically. And don't "but PC" me. PC is one platform. There are three (eh, two for multi-plats) console platforms by comparison. Console games famously sell significantly better than PC games. Retailers don't matter as much as neither you or they think. PC is essentially digital only and you don't see Dell struggling to sell desktops. That's all in your head. Digital growing, not shrinking.
When someone finally makes a digital only console that is smart enough to not do things like not talk about games at its reveal, not brick your console when you're not connected to the internet, not try to still do physical media only without any of the few benefits physical media actually has, and not launch at $500 because it's being bundled in with a mandatory $100 scapegoat that is not essential at all to the gaming experience, it will be met with a nearly unanimous thunderous applause. And then a rag-tag team of protesters will cry foul passionately in a corner, unheard by the masses.
And since a certain platform will have a unified library, meaning they must use a unified form of media, meaning the handheld variant can't use disks, do you know what that means??? DIGITAL ONLY NX, BABY!!! I am astounded by my ability to turn literally any thread into an NX thread.
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