I think Nintendo has quite a few games where being a live service would probably help the game & their developers more in today’s modern development environment. They already have “teams” for them more less who are dedicated to these franchises.
They probably don’t, just for the record. A few years back some Microsoft internal planning documents became public, and it included that they were scheduling games to get out of the way of Breath of the Wild 2… in holiday 2021.
Animal Crossing would seem to correspond very well to this type of Gaas model, Mario Kart could very well lend itself to this too. Both IPs are already available on smartphones.
Whatever reason being.
If the servers close down, however, you could lose the games you've bought forever. And from an ecological point of view, dematerialization has both advantages and disadvantages, since the ecological impact of servers is not neutral.
I doubt they go all in on digital as that is too reliant upon one option. Having both is good for sales & a contingency in case one option fails/does not entirely exist in certain portions of the world. Even in a world where consumers completely switch over to digital purchases they’ll still put out physical products on store shelves.
If this is to happen, it certainly won't happen overnight, you're right. But while you're on the subject of unforeseen events, not having to deal with the imponderables associated with the manufacture of physical support could be a major advantage in the future.
gamecards slots are dirt cheap. The money is in higher margins in the e shop compared to retail.
Thus "offset the upfront cost", that's what I meant. I should have been clearer.
That sounds absolutely horrible, please let them not.
The cost of the slots is cheap but it takes up a lot of hardware real estate so the "true" cost is more indirect.
I wouldn't expect the next Lite to drop the card slot. It's a model with a target demographic that includes kids who don't have credit cards, and who are more likely to be browsing in store to decide how to spend their pocket money or what gift they want wrapped up under the Christmas tree. They don't want to lock that demographic out of physical game sales, and risk selling less games as a result.
Very true and rational take.
I find the disadvantages of shipping out physical medium to be overblown in this instance. In a presumably all digital future they’ll still be pumping out various physical products for the device; so cutting physical game supply is a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. They have quite a few options to pick from to still keep a retail presence going all digital. If books, movies, & music can still keep a physical presence then I’m not seeing why Nintendo should throw out a useful tool.
I don’t even think you have to go that far:
Different markets, Nintendo's not competing with Sony and and Microsoft, they can wait as long as they want
Surprised people are on the same page as me lol, agree totally. We simply don't know yet is all, nothings guaranteed (in both ways) and things change fast. Just how the gaming industry is, have to go with the flow or be erased. Animal Crossing, Splatoon and Pokémon are series that I can imagine would be particularly easy to put these sorts of exploitative practices into, but obviously they'd need to be marketed as family friendly. I see my little cousin spend insane amounts on random Roblox cosmetics and rubbish that will be gone forever when the servers are shut down but he doesn't care and doesn't listen to me.
Ok why do I actually want that ToTK battle royale spin off that you mentioned what's wrong with me lmao. You just know the lag would be INSANE.
That's wild. I'm on an island in Europe, so maybe it being AN ISLAND doesn't help physical prices, but digital is usually cheaper here depending how you slice it.
I sincerely hope you're right, and I'm not just talking about Nintendo or video games here. I'm in no particular hurry to live in a world where Apple or Amazon or whatever will decide when I can no longer access the books, music, films and TV series I've already bought.
The same goes for France, where physical products are constantly cheaper. I paid 50€ for Totk when it was 70€ on the eshop. Yes, I know, with NSO I could have had it for the same price, but digital leaves the cost of storage to the consumer, unlike physical media.
As consumers, we also have a responsibility. I've seen more people complain about the quality of Nintendo's online when it was free than complain aboutthe joy con drift, for example. I mean, online is cool, but when Nintendo's philosophy was: "we make games, they're good, play with your friends or alone and fuck the online ", there was archaism it's true, but there was also a respect for the customer and the finished product.
There will always be a niche for physical media in some form or fashion. It may not be as prominent as before but will still probably exist in some form or fashion. For example we still see various forms of physical print media running around: comics, magazines, newspapers, books, etc.
I didn't own a switch in 2017 so I was kind of out of the loop but afaik I thought they didn't have much for the first year is was cross gen and ports but I could be wrong
Botw was a cross gen. But I forget Xenoblade 2 came out in 2017 ty for the refresher
We also got Arms and Mario + Rabbids for new IP. But you're right that the first couple months was riding high on a cross-gen game, and a Mario Kart port
Not diminish it's value as a game, but cross-gen might diminish my (totally subjective) excitement. That launch year is often about showing what's possible, and in 2017, the Wii U had been so unsuccessful that HD Nintendo games felt very new and exciting. That is what got me to buy my first TV console since the NES after all.
Not at all, the first year was bangin.
That has nothing to do with what you said, you said "doesn't have much"
That’s not true. BOTW WiiU contributed a nice amount of sales that helped push it past the 30mil threshold. While it would have done that anyway it may have taken longer.
I got the "Monster Hunter should have battle pass" vibes.
Sony has dampened their own hype and momentum with that ridiculous showcase. The current heads are so out of touch, I hope the gaas failures will be a wake up call.
Yeah, this ain’t it…
I was thinking that Sony would have seen the unredacted documents that we got the [REDACTED] name from
Xenoblade 2 is the best game ever.
Nah
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nah, they wouldn't. Sony is pressing grievances, but isn't standing in the case
Nope. What are those „GAAS“ failures? We haven’t seen those games and even if all get canceled (big if!) and don’t see the light of day, who cares? Nintendo does bad game prototypes as well. Sony is doing extremely great at the moment, no need for doomposting.
