Storage is an inherent sunk cost for pretty much every platform, even still 3DS is the best among current handhelds in that regard though. Besides, 3D Land easily fits on the standard 2GB/4GB included with 3DS/XL with plenty of room to spare. No issue.
Even at an extreme there's buying something to throw the carts into.
3D Land doesn't fill up the card though, not even half the card. So your example has no issue.
He might be thinking if you got more games... except I already highlighted several other points there:
I prefer retail.
You still have to store your DS cards safely.
Vane_MagicCity said:
3D Land was your example though, your example doesn't work.
I think with the thrust of full retail games you'll see enough people either upgrading or juggling anyway that they'll go ahead and release bigger DD-only games. Hell, Xseed's supposed to do that with Unchained Blades someday.
Right, but like I already said, sharing is not an issue for people who are the sole gamers in their family or don't live with other gamers. You could preach to people who buy a $200 mp3 player on top of paying for all their digital albums to go buy physical CDs + a cheap CD player and never convince them.
Neat, I had an extra 32GB card. How much did that makeup bag cost? How about the extra DS card cases?
It's being compared to other platforms because ALL systems require a sunk storage cost. Even those bundled with large amounts of memory (like 360, PS3, iDevices, etc) you pay a premium for that memory.
Well no, you're trading flexibility for convienence. Iwata actually talked on that, which is why they're offering both solutions.
The bigger point is how the situation is different for everyone. Some may already have the 32 GB card just because, they got it for a camera only to never use it, they only want a few retail games and thus have no pressing need to jump above 2 or especially 4 GB, or they really are getting it just so they can get all their retail games digitally instead. Then for some it's a huge deal to resell the games or share them, while some either don't care or actively want to kill the possibility for whatever reason. Then of course there's some that just like to have the games physically, not that Nintendo's helping much there by joining in on killing manuals, but at least their foldouts are much nicer than the black and white phoned in excuses (sometimes literally) others provide or even the simple lack of anything at all as SCEA seemingly mandates.
But you are arguing like they should be an issue for everyone.
Why are you making it an issue for people for whom it is not an issue?
But you have no point.
Because you've made your points and no one in here is stupid enough to not realize that physical copies have their advantages.
To illustrate your contradiction.
Denpa Men is lots of fun if your in the mood for an old school very Dragon Questy RPG. There is a free demo and you can transfer your save from there to the full game. So I say check out the Demo and if you enjoy that and want more then get the full game.
This DID start with you laughing off people who wanted to buy digitally then trade in their physical copies. I think it's kinda of crazy to do so at full price, but to each their own.
I do kind of expect it'll be dead for about a month outside of already announced stuff until Epic Mickey hits though.
