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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
Normchacho on 16 May 2016
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.

Yeah wait...Didn't you say it was going to be digital only? So which do you believe?



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Frogger on 16 May 2016
Swordmasterman said:

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 ?.

That was a joke.



Frogger on 16 May 2016
Ka-pi96 said:

Wait, what?

I thought you were adamant it was digital only or streaming only or something?

I am. That was a joke.

Normchacho said:

Yeah wait...Didn't you say it was going to be digital only? So which do you believe?

Still digital. I was making a joke.



Frogger on 16 May 2016
SvennoJ said:

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.

What's different is that the NX is a new system, not a revision of a dying one. Enough people have a high enough internet speed for digital only to be more than viable. It's a ludicris leap in judgement to believe that good internet is restricted to people who play games in a post-smartphone world.



Pavolink on 16 May 2016

Yes.



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Normchacho on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Wait, what?

I thought you were adamant it was digital only or streaming only or something?

I am. That was a joke.

Normchacho said:

Yeah wait...Didn't you say it was going to be digital only? So which do you believe?

Still digital. I was making a joke.

Aaahhh, gatcha.



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FayeC on 16 May 2016

Nope, takes way to much power out of the consumer's hands



Alby_da_Wolf on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
SvennoJ said:

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.

What's different is that the NX is a new system, not a revision of a dying one. Enough people have a high enough internet speed for digital only to be more than viable. It's a ludicris leap in judgement to believe that good internet is restricted to people who play games in a post-smartphone world.

Currently full flat wireless contracts are available only for home, fixed station wireless, but mobile wireless and roaming dongles sometimes supplied with a home wireless contract have a monthly traffic limit of a few GBs, beyond which either the user has to pay an overprice, always or just to keep the top speed, or speed drops down to a few tens kbps.  Digital-only mobile and portable users couldn't even download a single full-sized game a month before their internet connection would jump back in time to the late 90's-  early 2000's until the next month. Good luck selling digital-only to them, those connection are good only for digital download of tens MB-sized apps and games.



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Frogger on 16 May 2016
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Currently full flat wireless contracts are available only for home, fixed station wireless, but mobile wireless and roaming dongles sometimes supplied with a home wireless contract have a monthly traffic limit of a few GBs, beyond which either the user has to pay an overprice, always or just to keep the top speed, or speed drops down to a few tens kbps.  Digital-only mobile and portable users couldn't even download a single full-sized game a month before their internet connection would jump back in time to the late 90's-  early 2000's until the next month. Good luck selling digital-only to them, those connection are good only for digital download of tens MB-sized apps and games.

There's reason to believe that the NXDS will have it's own data plan who's price will be incorperated into the price of hardware and software, as per an Iwata quote likening it to what Kindle Fire has done. Won't be an issue, and data caps from comcast are being raised to like 2TB this summer, so also not an issue.

Also, you're crazy if you think NXDS games will be 10s of MB each.



Normchacho on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Currently full flat wireless contracts are available only for home, fixed station wireless, but mobile wireless and roaming dongles sometimes supplied with a home wireless contract have a monthly traffic limit of a few GBs, beyond which either the user has to pay an overprice, always or just to keep the top speed, or speed drops down to a few tens kbps.  Digital-only mobile and portable users couldn't even download a single full-sized game a month before their internet connection would jump back in time to the late 90's-  early 2000's until the next month. Good luck selling digital-only to them, those connection are good only for digital download of tens MB-sized apps and games.

There's reason to believe that the NXDS will have it's own data plan who's price will be incorperated into the price of hardware and software, as per an Iwata quote likening it to what Kindle Fire has done. Won't be an issue, and data caps from comcast are being raised to like 2TB this summer, so also not an issue.

Also, you're crazy if you think NXDS games will be 10s of MB each.

Wasn't the Kindle plan $50 a year for like 250mb a month? There's no way Nintendo could offer a plan robust enough to make downloading games on the go viable.



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