| Norion said: Why would it need to be every former physical purchase? Losing a small amount of physical purchases would be worth it to not have to deal with things like cartridges, get all the people who are indifferent to physical vs digital to only buy the latter and in general have more control over their customers. And I expect that doing this would actually create some new digital game purchases for them since if someone wanted to play a Nintendo game the option of buying a 2nd hand copy for cheaper or borrowing a physical copy from a friend wouldn't be available any more so unless they can borrow someone else's entire console or manage to pirate it they'll need to buy it directly from Nintendo to play it which would help make up for lost physical purchases. This scenario would suck but like what happened to PC gaming I really think it's only a matter of time till console gaming follows it in this way even if it's quite a few decades away and digital only on console would be much worse compared to on PC so I would prefer to end up being wrong about this. |
What I find frustrating about this particular exchange is that it reminds me so much of talking to curl-6. As in, it's a scenario he himself doesn't want to become reality, but the paranoia gets to him so much that he can't see it playing out any other way anymore.
I just don't see how Nintendo would be able to convince its customers that all-digital is good. Nintendo offers more incentives for digital purchases than Sony and Microsoft, but somehow lags behind them tremendously when it comes to the digital share of software purchases. At some point you have to strongly consider that an all-digital future is something that a big enough amount of gamers does not want to support. Buying digital games is easy on Switch, storing them is easy as well, you consistently get more cash back when you buy digital over physical, and yet, the sales data are what they are.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
