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The story
In an interview with nintendoeverything.com, Nintendo stated clearly that it has no plans to discontinue physical versions of its games. The company said it has always maintained a stance that favors neither digital nor physical, citing the fact that even Switch2, which launched only about a year ago, offers both sales formats. On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board, many comments welcomed the statement, while others pointed out the contrast with Sony, which has been scaling back disc drives, and still others voiced skepticism that the policy could change again down the line — reactions were far from uniform.
Well, it’s pretty much a given, but it’s reassuring to hear
Source: nintendoeverything.com / Read the original article here
What people said
Going forward, the functionality will stay as Game-Key Cards
People have been pointing out for ages that stuff could get added to what's on the key card
Nintendo tends to tie its own hands and ends up throwing away business opportunities, which creates weird situations
We put consumer preference first and take that very seriously.
Also, this is still a platform we only just launched.
NS2 has been out for just over a year, but it already offers both digital and physical.
We have no plans to discontinue physical.
We also know how much fans love physical, which is why we've kept to a stance that doesn't lean either way.
(Full quote)
Publishers make physical copies because fans ask for them — it's not the other way around
CC2's Matsuyama: "Scrapping physical is nothing but good"
They've got to keep pushing some "both sides do it" argument, or the damage piling up on the brand image they're clinging to stops being a joke and they can't keep fooling the clueless marks anymore — so yeah, a little absurd, sleazy blame-shifting comes with the territory, right?
Just wait and see
They're stingy enough to quit discs that cost like tens of yen a press — no way they'd bother making a dongle
Honestly, I bet every publisher doing digital sales owes Sony a quiet thank-you in a way
No, Nintendo set things up with Catalog Tickets so it'd work out fine either way, physical or digital, didn't they?
Not like Sony, just dropping discs with no alternative in place
No cushion, no warning — just BAM, straight off the top
Users must be totally crushed
Pretty different situation from Sony, who actually owns factories
lol
Optical discs barely get used for anything but games these days lol
If they priced Blu-ray discs so the BD business wasn't running a loss, it'd probably come out to like 100,000 yen lol
Both downloaded data and whatever's recorded on a game card are digital data either way
If some clueless trash media outlet or random person said it, fine, but… (´・ω・`)
It's about the product format offered to customers, so of course it gets phrased that way, right?
What would even be the "correct" way to say it instead?
Thanks to that, they're still somehow holding on even in these parts-price-gouging chaotic times
PS5's 800GB is ridiculously small too though…
Retailers: "Whether we stock it or not is our call"
Is a code-in-a-box really what people who've been buying discs all along actually want?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBS8N3tbEAA3C7U.jpg
The first one to turn into a flimsy piece of paper was the "Buhitch" (a mocking 5ch nickname for the Switch)
Most of their users can't even manage a credit card
That's PS users you're talking about
Don't mock Sony when they're the ones who leaked people's credit card info
Chris Dring: "The Switch2 version of Resident Evil Requiem has a 20% digital ratio — Switch2 runs low on digital ratio for third-party titles"
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1773471355/
Switch2's Cyberpunk 2077 has a 24% digital ratio ← lmaooo
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1759217169/
Chris Dring: "The Switch2 version of Resident Evil Requiem has a 20% digital ratio — Switch2 runs low on digital ratio for third-party titles"
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1773471355/
Switch2's Cyberpunk 2077 has a 24% digital ratio ← lmaooo
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1759217169/
Re: #80
Totally left behind by the times
Good for them
Guess we won't be able to make out anything anymore
The numbers will probably all get lumped together and rounded off
Though sales drop to zero
It does count as a collection — it's still a physical card after all. Planning to collect the whole FF7 Remake trilogy
Nintendo just does stuff out of nowhere, so you never know
This kind of thing isn't even something the person actually said in the first place
The thread title's basically clickbait fraud
Background and Key Points of This Debate
Nintendo’s statement that it has no plans to discontinue physical game releases comes from an interview with nintendoeverything.com, in which it emphasized a stance that favors neither digital nor physical. The backdrop is an industry trend in which Sony has been scaling back disc-drive models in the PS5 lineup and moving toward an all-digital future. Where opinion split on the thread was over how to judge Nintendo’s response. Many contrasted Nintendo — which has offered Game-Key Cards since Switch2 launched, preserving a choice between digital and physical — with Sony, which dropped discs without offering any alternative. At the same time, the fact that Game-Key Cards are physical cards that still require a download, and so differ in nature from the traditional notion of “physical = a complete, self-contained storage medium,” was only touched on lightly in the replies and never really spelled out. There was also skepticism that a “we won’t discontinue it” statement doesn’t bind future policy, with some citing past cases where Nintendo reversed course on price-hike plans.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Nintendo: “No Plans to Discontinue Physical Copies”.”
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