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A comment from a Nintendo fan — “I’m fine with PS dropping discs” — sparked a minor dust-up on 5ch’s hardware/industry (Geha) board. It started when someone pointed out that the same crowd who supposedly supported PS5 dropping its disc-drive models still refuses to give up Switch’s packaged games (Game-Key Cards) — isn’t that a contradiction? That drew a wave of pushback: “Supporting PS dropping discs and demanding Nintendo do the same are two different things,” and “Nintendo never even said it was dropping anything.” The discussion never really connected, since people couldn’t agree on whether the issue was “what users personally support” or “what manufacturers actually plan to do.”
What people said
that's literally what was said, right?
Why do you always twist it? Do you have some kind of disease where you can't survive without lying?
They're not discs though
Exactly right, lmao
Game-Key Cards aren't discs, you know?
What is this idiot even saying
Obviously it's different now, so what are we even talking about?
When you think about it calmly, that's a pretty odd stance
Nobody's talking about Nintendo here
Please actually explain how you got to this conclusion
Sony dropping discs has nothing to do with Nintendo, does it?
Because that'll definitely finish off the domestic market, where physical-copy sales are still strong (lol)
If Nintendo dropped discs too, though, that would actually be a problem (lol)
so it would finally disappear from store shelves, that's all
That's actually a critical difference versus PS hardware (PSW)
Because physical copies still sell a million units a year for Nintendo, lol
If it sells, there's no reason to kill it
Oh wait, PSW's different, my bad!
Even something like Wolverine only moves 20,000 copies — garbage-tier sales like that
So it might as well just die off!
Stores don't want to carry inventory of trash games either!
Still, overall there's roughly 2 million units a year still selling physically
and apparently all of that's about to disappear
By the way, a floppy disk has a thin film-like disc inside
That's why it's called a floppy 'disk'
Everyone agrees on supporting PS dropping discs, right?
Even when Nintendo officially announced 'We're not discontinuing physical packaging,' nobody pushed back on that
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The thread kicked off because a Nintendo fan’s comment — “I’m fine with PS dropping discs” — appeared to contradict their continued support for Switch’s physical releases. Tracing through the replies, though, the real sticking point is that “what users personally support” and “what manufacturers actually plan to do” got conflated. As posts #9 and #92 point out, supporting Sony’s removal of disc drives is a separate matter from demanding Nintendo do the same — post #31’s framing, “Users say ‘dropping it is fine,’ the manufacturer says ‘we’re not dropping it’ — how is that even related?”, sums it up neatly. The fact that the Switch 2’s “Game-Key Cards” work differently from traditional discs or cartridges also muddied the waters, with the back-and-forth in #10 and #43 amounting to nitpicking over that technical distinction. On the whole, this reads less like an industry debate and more like a textbook case of people with different starting positions talking past each other without ever agreeing on what was actually being argued.
*This article was compiled and summarized from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) board thread ‘Nintendo Fanboys: “We’re fine with discs being dropped too, what are you talking about? (lol)” — So what was this actually about?‘ (“Nintendo fanboys” renders 任豚/nitabuta, a mocking 5ch slang term for die-hard Nintendo fans).
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