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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As opposed to what?

As opposed to what literally everyone else is doing?

Download-only would (1) increase costs of a system

What? If anything it would decrease it because there's no slot needed for the media.

require Nintendo's online infrastructure to lurch forward by about fifteen years.

I don't see how that's a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you priced SSDs, relative to... slots?

I don’t see how that’s a bad thing.

Bad, no. Hard, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It...already has an SSD? Have you contemplated the costs of slot + game cards + shipping + third-party sales fees vs. SSD?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It has an SSD sized on the assumption that games go in the slot. It has an SSD that's the price of a game, and will only hold a dozen. And they could probably get away with less, thanks to focusing on the negligible cost of a hole and some pins.

Nintendo is only now figuring out that Virtual Console purchases should be transferable... at all. They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console. I think the idea of deleting a game and re-downloading it, for free, was a recent surprise to some of these people. The same way Sony's still trying to repeat the PS2, Nintendo's been trying to repeat the Famicom Disk System.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you contemplated the costs of slot + game cards vs. SSD?

They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console

I mean they're one of the most profitable companies in the business. There's no reason they couldn't become qualified...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They could.

They haven't.

They won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well I never tried to speculate what they were going to do...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Commenting on what they're doing right now is not meaningfully different. This started with you second-guessing their commitment to cartridges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're mistaken. My statement was simply that it was wild that they were still doing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Distinction without difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My guy, if remarking that it's "crazy" isn't commentary on whether it makes sense, what is it?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My guy, commenting on what makes sense is not the same thing as speculating about what they're going to do or second guessing their commitment to cartridges.

Anything else you'd like to make up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My apologies for remembering the words you wrote.

If you don't like speculation, don't say things like "there’s no reason they couldn’t become qualified." Because that, in itself, is speculation. As surely as calling this situation "crazy" is commentary on whether it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because that, in itself, is speculation.

🤣 No it's not.

Have a nice night.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"They can" isn't, but "they can't" is.

Sure dude.