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Would you buy a digital only console?

Yes 163 19.45%
 
No 479 57.16%
 
Maybe leaning yes 92 10.98%
 
Maybe leaning no 104 12.41%
 
Total:838

Nope. I'm already turning towards retro collecting as a result of the broken/unfinished games that get patched after release to make them whole. I prefer to buy a complete experience on media that I own and can do with as I please.



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Probably not. On consoles, the console company has the only store, meaning they can set the rules as they wish. It's probably not great for consumers in the long run. It isn't good even now when physical is still relatively strong, and I very much doubt it could get better with no physical at all.



Depends on many factors.

Are the prices more in line with PC? If so, yes. If not, fuck off.

Well, I guess it just depends on that one factor in the end lol.



No. I mean I buy games full price every now and then but I don't picture consoles having Humble or Steam caliber sales.



Not really.
Games are quite expensive as it is and I can't live without reselling them.
I buy a game brand new on launch day,finish the campaign and then I sell it.



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spemanig said:
RolStoppable said:
Probably. What I can say for sure is that the other two consoles wouldn't become more appealing for offering physical games.

That shouldn't matter since the NX is using carts.

I Wonder how they will use Carts, the Nintendo 64 had Carts with 64MB of Storage over 1/11 the storage of a CD, how they can make Carts  with the same storage as a Bluray ?.



I have yet to buy a single physical game on vita (and I would go full digital on 3ds too if it wasn't for Nintendo's no price drop policy) so I'm fine with full digital handelds.
I'm not ready for a full digital home console though, I like my collectors.



spemanig said:
SvennoJ said:

It's hard to say. There's a lot of general population :)

Second hand games are big business and the average internet speed of the non hardcore gamers is a lot lower. Yet they're also less likely to be collectors and more easily swayed by convenience. The only examples we have so far haven't exactly been flying off the shelves, pspgo and ouya.

...You made that up. There is absolutely no research supporting that what-so-ever because there's no rubric deciding who is a hardcore gamer and who has access to adequate internet speeds within that group as opposed to outside of it. PSP Go was a late revision of a system already falling in its sales that had no reliable way to be consistantly connected to the internet as it required wifi and had no data plan. Ouya was the Ouya. People need to stop using bad products as examples of the undesirability of good ideas.

The average internet speed is a lot lower than what an internet speed poll results into on this site.  Enthusiast gamer if you like that better than hardcore, whatever you want to call the segment that plays full priced games multiple times a week and frequents game sites.

PSPGO was late, yet was also boycotted by many retailers, definitely not promoted. Ouya was indeed the ouya.

Anyway what's different now, why would retailers promote a system that doesn't make them any money. And that world average internet speed is real, plus data caps are in a lot of places as well.



I'm torn between buying it or not, since I'm now experiencing the benefit of switching into a digital game without the need to get up my seat. However, I still prefer physical, tangible copies of games, especially if those games are AAA. If I buy a digital game, it has to be a game that's a few years old and inexpensive (less than $30).

I suppose that a digital-only console should give us the choices to store the game on that console on a massive HDD and/or to stream the game from their service. I just don't think that could be viable nowadays as not everyone has internet above 20Mb upload, which is a pretty good minimum. Also, downloading an entire 50GB game into a limited and slow HDD would be more of a nuisance than a benefit, since you'll need even more disk space for all games, which will get even bigger as time passes. And if you want to redownload a game you already have on your library, you'll have to wait a couple of hours to do so.

The idea won't just work unless there's some good economically viable technology backing it.



Swordmasterman said:
spemanig said:

That shouldn't matter since the NX is using carts.

I Wonder how they will use Carts, the Nintendo 64 had Carts with 64MB of Storage over 1/11 the storage of a CD, how they can make Carts  with the same storage as a Bluray ?.

I imagine they would basically be SD cards.



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