That's not how it works, Cloud lol. Only the GP award the big discounts and free games, and those are only obtainable by purchasing digital software.

Aka, digital only.

So it's like the Digital Deluxe Program more than Club Nintendo in this way.

PP only awards smaller discounts like 20% off MK8, or small games for free like Picross.

It doesn't mean they're going digital only it just means that the current physical games weren't created with this function in mind at the time of conception, NX physical games will likely use this especially going by the patent of a platform that identifies physical software and logs it into a library, that would fall in line with this set up here.

Yeah, not even gonna waste time arguing this.

True, they've had so many patents lately I can't keep track of them. I hope the NX is not digital-only. Whoever crosses that line will be under an inmediate pressure, and be blamed for setting up the trend.

You're seriously misinterpreting what "play the same games" means. The NXDS will play a different version of NX games. They aren't going to be the same game. It'll be like Smash 3DS vs. Smash Wii U, only the developement process behind that won't be a nightmare.

The NXDS versions of the games will be much, much smaller in size than the NX version, and like with literally every other digital unified platform, the platform only downloads the accets necessary for that system. This is all old news.

You do realize that even if physical was still happening, they wouldn't make the NXDS versions of NX games as big as NX games, right? Because every game would still have to be available for download on the NXDS, and they aren't going to put a 22GB game on a portable device. This is a non-issue.

Everything they do will get them unwanted criticism. They are a popular gaming company. How much, though? Not enough to be damaging to the NX's launch. Especially with My Nintendo solving the digital price barrier. Every penny you spend on NX will go towards getting a free game or major discount coupon since you have to have My Nintendo to use NX, and you have to by games digitally because there will be no alternative. That means that every consumer is forced into experience that same "new" digital only sense of convenience when you do stuff like sort through all your games without having to change disks/find carts, switch between playing a game on your NXDS and NX without having to swap hardware because the game is downloaded on both as literally stated by Miyamoto as the only reason having a unified platform would work, etc.

Digital only is a means to an end for them. They are going to create an environment of convenience and saving they couldn't do without being digital only. And that is going to resonate extremely well because it's all good ideas with superior experiences to what is here now, especially once the NX games start awarding PP. It doesn't matter if digital only is possible now. NX will be most consumer's first foray into digital only with games, and Nintendo has been taking ever step necessary to make that experience feel world changing to those people.

Wouldn't that contradict all of their talk about "getting 3rd parties back"? I mean, I'm sure Nintendo would not have any problem with making two separate versions of the game based on some unified base, but are 3rd parties bother to adapt their games to both versions of the hardware? My theory for the unified system was one single game with two settings options (one for home console and one for handheld), but not two different games built frome a common base.

And size is going to be a problem either way. I think the maximum size for Vita games is 4-5gb, but make smaller versions of games like, per example, Xenoblade X, Zelda U or something as big as those will take way more than 5gb. And that's not counting 3rd parties who don't care about the compression of their games (wasn't Titanfall 20-30gb plus patches at launch?).

Not true at all. There's nothing different about physical and digital that wouldn't allow them to award physical purchases. Nintendo has already made it clear that they wouldn't allow Wii U/3DS games to earn you PP, but they would start that system on the NX. If the above had any truth to it, they would have said the same thing about physical purchases working on MN in the future. They had a work around for CN. If they wanted to, they'd have one for MN.

But they don't, because they don't.

They've been clear. MN only awards for digital purchases.

http://www.nintendo.com/my-nintendo

"Earn Gold Points for buying digital versions of games once the service starts."

Can't be more clear than that.

They won't be blamed for doing anything, because the advent of digital only consoles will be seen by the masses a great, console redefining move into modernity.

Nope. The process of making the two versons is simple. That's the point. The NX is designed to be easy to develope one game between two devices. It's not like making an XBO version and a PS4 version. They are based from the same architecture on the same OS in the same family of systems. If this difference were a problem for devs, the app store would be a barren wasteland with no 3rd parties.

But it's not. It's the opposite. That's all this is.

XBC was like 3GB on the N3DS. There is a fully open world asscreed game on mobile out now. Size is not an issue at all. The asset demand is much smaller when you're using these lower quality assets, especially if the screen isn't 720p like it likely won't be. The NXDS will likely come with 64GB of memory via an SD card to start too, since it'll be digital only and can use that extra money saved not having a cart slot on a bigger SD card. Space it literally a non issue.

rewards eshop only? i can dig it i am not buying another physical game again not after what happened to my smash bros u and new supermario bros u(my only physical wii u games)

Well this is new.

What happened?