Would you buy a digital only console?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

spemanig said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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.

There's reason to believe that the NXDS will have it's own data plan who's price will be incorperated into the price of hardware and software, as per an Iwata quote likening it to what Kindle Fire has done. Won't be an issue, and data caps from comcast are being raised to like 2TB this summer, so also not an issue.

Also, you're crazy if you think NXDS games will be 10s of MB each.

So Ninty will be able to sell it where telcos offer decent data caps with their normal contracts for end users and/or affordable plans with decent caps through Ninty (unless Ninty buys a telco in every market, it will have to strike deals with local telcos).
About game size, digital-only will have to deliver also full-sized games that in the previous gen were sold on physical supports, and those had sizes much larger than tens MB. And if there will be a unified library, the size of the largest games will be even larger.