Would you buy a digital only console?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

spemanig said:

SvennoJ said:

The average internet speed is a lot lower than what an internet speed poll results into on this site.  Enthusiast gamer if you like that better than hardcore, whatever you want to call the segment that plays full priced games multiple times a week and frequents game sites.

PSPGO was late, yet was also boycotted by many retailers, definitely not promoted. Ouya was indeed the ouya.

Anyway what's different now, why would retailers promote a system that doesn't make them any money. And that world average internet speed is real, plus data caps are in a lot of places as well.

What's different is that the NX is a new system, not a revision of a dying one. Enough people have a high enough internet speed for digital only to be more than viable. It's a ludicris leap in judgement to believe that good internet is restricted to people who play games in a post-smartphone world.

Currently full flat wireless contracts are available only for home, fixed station wireless, but mobile wireless and roaming dongles sometimes supplied with a home wireless contract have a monthly traffic limit of a few GBs, beyond which either the user has to pay an overprice, always or just to keep the top speed, or speed drops down to a few tens kbps.  Digital-only mobile and portable users couldn't even download a single full-sized game a month before their internet connection would jump back in time to the late 90's-  early 2000's until the next month. Good luck selling digital-only to them, those connection are good only for digital download of tens MB-sized apps and games.