@habibyjohnson said:
@xbob42 No, bear in mind most people have an internet cap and dont have access to fast internet. Most people under 18 dont even have a credit card. So digital only will definitely not happen. You are an idiot.
Also, prices are likely to be the highest thorugh the official "nintendo store", so why would you pay full price to get the game without a physical copy, case or manual. What on earth is the advantage there? This is why i dont understand why people would even like the option to do this..
So many limp-wristed arguments here.
First: Internet caps don't matter, nor does slow internet, honestly. Most people don't buy more than a few games per year, and those that buy many still wouldn't come close to hitting any sort of bandwidth cap unless they used their cell phone to tether their PCs or something equally stupid. The most popular ISP, Comcast, has a 250GB monthly limit. My biggest game, if I recall correctly, is 25GB, which even for today's gaming needs is insanely large. I could download my very biggest game 10 times a month. Except that's completely unrealistic because most games even in this "HD" age are 8GB or less and you don't buy 10+ per month. Same with "slow internet," download it as you sleep. With pre-loading being so popular on, say, Steam, this doesn't even hamper your ability to play as soon as the game is available.
Second: What Nintendo charges is completely irrelevant. Don't like it? Don't pay and complain to them. No one's gonna get them to lower their prices but the fans. But fans like to bend over all the time, so that won't happen. Steam is cheap because they know they can make a big profit by having games on sale because it revitalizes interest. Even this doesn't work on a Nintendo console for the heavy hitting titles because they sell massively throughout the entire generation. So speak with your wallet. In any case, you play on a closed platform, expect premium prices for high-quality titles. That's just how it goes. As for a physical copy, case or manual, that's a bunch of stupid garbage you don't need to begin with that just clutters up your house. But dirty neckbeards love collecting valueless trash, so I know that's a real big deal and everything.
As you can see, the industry is becoming more and more of a digital distribution-oriented place. I mean the ENTIRE entertainment industry. TV is being replaced by streaming content on the net, movies are streamed via Netflix, games are downloaded on Steam and soon to be multiple console platforms, all cell phone and mobile device stuff is obviously digital exclusive. (Oh no I don't have an Angry Birds manual DURRRP.)
You're the idiot here because you think people who aren't connected to the net actually matter to big business. They're becoming less and less relevant every year. It's totally normal and expected of the average citizen to have a connection to the net for various things; banking, bill paying, communications, entertainment. It's not just some luxury for nerds anymore. You need to realize that, and realize your wet dream of a future where physical media actually matters is totally hilarious.
Yeah, I'm sure businesses would love to have to keep worrying about retail shelf space, printing discs and paper covers/manuals, plastic boxes and then workers for all those factories, then the cost of the drivers that have to deliver those to every friggin' store in the nation. Yeah, that's all super cheap, right? Why not just release it exclusively on a digital distribution platform (Which for many companies would erase the need for a publisher. Many, but not all.) where shelf space is literally unlimited and you don't have to print anything? Most services don't even charge bandwidth because bandwidth is dirt cheap; they just charge a % per copy sold. Which means no buying back from retailers, or discounting retailers, or paying retailers at all.
It makes NO sense for this antiquated, garbage model to continue into the future, and people stuck in the past like you are going to take a serious shock to the system when they can't walk into Neckbeard's Paradise and pick up a copy of Hentai Sim 7.
Anyway, neckbearding aside, to the guy who had Heavy Rain take hours to install on his PS3: Yeah, the PS3 sucks with installs and downloads. This isn't news. Future hardware needs to be better designed, and the PSN had better be revamped for the Vita and PS4. That has nothing to do with digital distribution, though, and everything to do with Sony sucking.
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