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Pokemon X and Y; Digital Copies only?

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I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but here.

I went to Best Buy today to get some point cards, and one of the employees there (after helping me find them) said that he heard that Nintendo was thinking of removing all of the hard copies of the games and only selling digital copies.

That sorta got me thinking, what if Nintendo is phasing out the hard copies and going completely digital? I mean, they are really pushing the digital thing.

What do you guys think about this? Will X an Y (among numerous other games) be on the Nintendo E Shop only? Or will Nintendo just keep the hard copies along with selling the digital copies?
 
I imagine Nintendo would lose a lot of sales if they forced the games to be digital only.

It'd either force people to buy the games on the 3DS e-store or buy a brand new 3DS with X or Y installed.

It isn't a smart move. So I highly doubt it. Plus sites like Amazon are already taking pre-orders.
 
Going solely digital on anything is always a horrible idea. Of course, it takes an internet connection to even get the game, and there are people who either don't have reliable internet service or any at all.

The last system I can think of to do that was the PSP Go, and well...that was an utter failure, to the point where people didn't even know it existed >_>;;
 
I am always against digital only. The cons VASTLY outweigh the pros
 
I would hate that. I like having physical copies of my games.
 
I have this vast memory of reading somewhere that Nintendo was considering going digital only, but then decided against it, but I'm still not sure if that was a dream or not. Now when I think about it, it was probably about a single game and not 3DS games in general.

Either way the employee heard old news and/or rumors, or Nintendo is back on it.
 
Digital only= waiting hours for the game to download.
Cartridges= inserting game and starting right away.

I'd rather they stick with cartridges.
 
But cartridges come with cool boxes and little instruction manuals and I collect them, so I NEED the physical copy or my collection is ruined. I like to hold what I'm buying in my hands.
 
They made the system with a cartridge slot. Halfway through its lifecycle they aren't going to stop making things to put in it.
 
There were rumors though that Nintendo purposefully under-published hard-copies of Fire Emblem Awakening in the States in order to get better sales via Digital Distribution, as in that situation players can't buy used and must pay the full price directly to Nintendo.

Not sure if that was true (it was a bitch to find though certainly), but I wouldn't be surprised if hard-copies are underpublished for XY too...
 
Tendou Soujirou said:
There were rumors though that Nintendo purposefully under-published hard-copies of Fire Emblem Awakening in the States in order to get better sales via Digital Distribution, as in that situation players can't buy used and must pay the full price directly to Nintendo.

Not sure if that was true (it was a bitch to find though certainly), but I wouldn't be surprised if hard-copies are underpublished for XY too...
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I had it reserved and I still didn't get a copy till two weeks after release...

I really don't see Nintendo going strictly digital only any time soon. Consumers just aren't 100% ready to sink $40 on downloads. Especially given how archaic nintendo's digital policy is. You know games being locked to systems rather then accounts. It actually pisses me off when I think of it for long enough... already starting..
 
Rocky505 said:
Digital only= waiting hours for the game to download.
Cartridges= inserting game and starting right away.

I'd rather they stick with cartridges.
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Cartridges you have to drive to the store and preorder it. Then drive back when it comes out and possibly wait in line based on what game it is. Either way there is waiting involved.
 
llama555 said:
Rocky505 said:
Digital only= waiting hours for the game to download.
Cartridges= inserting game and starting right away.

I'd rather they stick with cartridges.
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Cartridges you have to drive to the store and preorder it. Then drive back when it comes out and possibly wait in line based on what game it is. Either way there is waiting involved.
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Pre Ordering is optional. Yes there will be waiting but not nowhere near as much as downloading the game online.
 
Rocky505 said:
Pre Ordering is optional. Yes there will be waiting but not nowhere near as much as downloading the game online.
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Apparently, you don't have a fast connection and are generalizing. It takes no more than an hour for most people to download 1GB worth of data, so it will probably take a maximum of two hours in XY's case. That is not at all unreasonable, and is obviously the better deal out there for people who don't live in the vicinity of a video game store.
 
If Nintendo ever did such a move as that, for all games I mean, then I would be pretty ticked off. Incredibly so, as I simply do not have access to wifi, and the means of it are just out of reach for me. Sucks to be me. It's bad enough that the next gen Xbox and Sony Playstation are looking toward some pretty stupid 'innovations', and I'd rather Nintendo stay smarter than that by still offering physical copies of most things.

Regarding Fire Emblem Awakening, I didn't try to get it but I knew one of my friend's boyfriend had troubles trying to locate a copy. I myself have been having the worst of luck finding available copies of Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon for two months now, and I still don't have it. It's because of that poor experience that I am considering doing more pre-orders to avoid this kind of crap.
 
Silktree said:
Rocky505 said:
Pre Ordering is optional. Yes there will be waiting but not nowhere near as much as downloading the game online.
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Apparently, you don't have a fast connection and are generalizing. It takes no more than an hour for most people to download 1GB worth of data, so it will probably take a maximum of two hours in XY's case. That is not at all unreasonable, and is obviously the better deal out there for people who don't live in the vicinity of a video game store.
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My connection isn't slow at all. 2 hours is still a long wait just for a game when you could just go to a store and get it in at least half an hour or sooner depending on where you live.
 
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