Gamers Still Prefer Physical Discs Over Digital, According to Findings

[Frogger]

Hiku said:

Nautilus said:
I remember Spemanig preaching about NX being digital only.This kinda sinks that idea of his.

I'm sure he's aware of that. But he assumed people will comply if they're forced into it, because Steam, Apple, etc.
I don't think that's the case. The Nintendo loyalist would no doubt comply, but that's not a grat way to increase your userbase on a console, which Nintendo needs to do.

I'm not really sure that's the story here. The form factor is different than what I thought it would be, and I don't think that form-factor is conducive to digital only. Or digital at all, really.

I do still think that people would have complied, but I think that Nintendo got cold feet about it on top of, again, the form factor being portable. Think about it, a digital only platform would need what, 500GB bare minimum? That's fine for stationary hardware, but it's not happening on portable hardware anytime soon.