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jonathanalis on 18 January 2015
RolStoppable said:
How often do people change discs for their Wii U anyway? I would assume everytime a new game comes out, so two to three times per year.


except that nintendo games are not the kind of games you finish and never play again.

one day you play mk, other smash, other get the new hw dlc, etc, those games last forever.

but trading the discs to another sucks.



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Skidmore on 18 January 2015
RolStoppable said:
How often do people change discs for their Wii U anyway? I would assume everytime a new game comes out, so two to three times per year.

Smash Bros is inside my Wii U since Early December :(



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t3mporary_126 on 18 January 2015
jonathanalis said:
i was thinking about a new kind of "physical media"
i was about to make a thread to discuss this, but considering that you already open this discussion, ill talk here.

the "physical media" should be just a physical device (a portrait of the game, or even a figure), that comunicate with the console by distance.
the console, once on while, communicate with nearby devices, and identify all games that are less than 5 meters from it.
then the console allow you to play the digital copy of the game.

so, as long you keep your games in the room, you dont need to trade disks
if you lend the game, you wont be able to play the game. you can sell used games.
so, all advantages of digital and physical are there, except that you have to download the game.


That's a sweet and convenient idea I can get behind. I hope Nintendo and the others have the same idea next generation or sooner. If you hadn't yet, you should feel make a new thread about this. 



cfin2987@gmail.com on 18 January 2015
t3mporary_126 said:
jonathanalis said:
i was thinking about a new kind of "physical media"
i was about to make a thread to discuss this, but considering that you already open this discussion, ill talk here.

the "physical media" should be just a physical device (a portrait of the game, or even a figure), that comunicate with the console by distance.
the console, once on while, communicate with nearby devices, and identify all games that are less than 5 meters from it.
then the console allow you to play the digital copy of the game.

so, as long you keep your games in the room, you dont need to trade disks
if you lend the game, you wont be able to play the game. you can sell used games.
so, all advantages of digital and physical are there, except that you have to download the game.


That's a sweet and convenient idea I can get behind. I hope Nintendo and the others have the same idea next generation or sooner. If you hadn't yet, you should feel make a new thread about this. 

Kind of like amiibos (which my iPad just auto corrected to amigos and it made me chuckle) then but instead of unlocking doc it unlocks and entire game.