How long do you give Microsoft and Nintendo before they drop physical games?

12 days ago by Sunshine to c/ask

Product ownership is going down the tube lately.

Sunshine 3 points 12 days ago
  1. Xbox 2027
  2. Nintendo 2032
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WhoIzDisIz 2 points 12 days ago

Might be a while longer than you'd expect thanks to storage prices. Few are gonna be willing to wait to redownload games. At least for Nintendo.

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hexagonwin 2 points 11 days ago

not sure bout ms but nintendo, i doubt they ever will.

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cerebralhawks 2 points 11 days ago

Microsoft is already planning on Project Helix (the next Xbox) being available without a disc drive. That's why they're letting you unlock digital entitlements on discs except where the publisher (e.g. Square Enix, Namco Bandai) has opted out. You can even unlock a Series disc in an XB1 (it just won't play the game — unless you also have GamePass Ultimate, in which case you can stream it). So if you buy a Helix without a disc drive and Helix discs are available, you will (in theory) be able to pop the disc in a Series or XB1 and unlock the entitlement, then download it to the Helix.

This is possible because since XB1, every game disc has been uniquely coded.

Nintendo... not sure. They do cart and digital. I don't think they have any new games that are cart only. Plenty that are digital only.

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