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spemanig said:

Darwinianevolution said:

I don't know. It's hard for me to think Nintendo would be the first one to go digital-only (specially with the handheld NX, if both devices can play the same games, where on Earth are you going to save the bigger ones? There are no real 500gb-1tb SD memory cards at a competitive price yet). Considering they need to get a launch as smooth as possible, the announcement of a digital-only console might get them unwanted criticism.

You're seriously misinterpreting what "play the same games" means. The NXDS will play a different version of NX games. They aren't going to be the same game. It'll be like Smash 3DS vs. Smash Wii U, only the developement process behind that won't be a nightmare.

The NXDS versions of the games will be much, much smaller in size than the NX version, and like with literally every other digital unified platform, the platform only downloads the accets necessary for that system. This is all old news.

You do realize that even if physical was still happening, they wouldn't make the NXDS versions of NX games as big as NX games, right? Because every game would still have to be available for download on the NXDS, and they aren't going to put a 22GB game on a portable device. This is a non-issue.

Wouldn't that contradict all of their talk about "getting 3rd parties back"? I mean, I'm sure Nintendo would not have any problem with making two separate versions of the game based on some unified base, but are 3rd parties bother to adapt their games to both versions of the hardware? My theory for the unified system was one single game with two settings options (one for home console and one for handheld), but not two different games built frome a common base.

And size is going to be a problem either way. I think the maximum size for Vita games is 4-5gb, but make smaller versions of games like, per example, Xenoblade X, Zelda U or something as big as those will take way more than 5gb. And that's not counting 3rd parties who don't care about the compression of their games (wasn't Titanfall 20-30gb plus patches at launch?).