I hate the thought of a DD future.

It's good to have the option, but I won't be using it.

is this what Nintendo bought Mobiclip for?

Well now you're actually talking and giving arguments, so yeah I knew you could, you just weren't doing it. I'm glad I was able to get you to say something meaningful.

I understand that you can't buy/sell 2nd hand, and that's a downside for sure, but at least it's to be expected, since the best mechanism to own the digital copy is to have it bound to an account (like battle.net).

Taking it to a friend's house is possible if you log in to your account and your friend has the game installed on his computer. Installations are usually free to download, with your account being the key to playing the game. So that isn't true for most properly done DL games.

Thank you.

SD cards could work with WiiUWare games, but with full retail games and HDD would be the most sensible choice.

This just worries me that they might not have an HDD. If you want to make it so consumers dl games you have to give them a place to put them. Requiring consumers to buy USB sticks and external HDD is just going to limit the amount of people who buy and dl things on the Wii U. Just put a big HDD into each console and make it easy and quick to get onto the store.

I can't tell you how many times I decided not to buy something from the Virtual console because it just takes too long to load it up. With the PS3 or 360 as soon as you turn the system on you can easily buy games and other entertainment. Please keep things simple Nintendo.

Guys, it's an option.

What about third party games?  Didn't EA just shut down a bunch of servers for something not that long ago?

How long to you expect first parties to support the digital games?  Ten years?  Twenty?  Forever?  I will take my physical copy.

^That's a good point, I give it to you. But as for the other arguments, they weren't as strong.