• mindbleach
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    4 天前

    It has an SSD sized on the assumption that games go in the slot. It has an SSD that’s the price of a game, and will only hold a dozen. And they could probably get away with less, thanks to focusing on the negligible cost of a hole and some pins.

    Nintendo is only now figuring out that Virtual Console purchases should be transferable… at all. They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console. I think the idea of deleting a game and re-downloading it, for free, was a recent surprise to some of these people. The same way Sony’s still trying to repeat the PS2, Nintendo’s been trying to repeat the Famicom Disk System.

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      4 天前

      Have you contemplated the costs of slot + game cards vs. SSD?

      They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console

      I mean they’re one of the most profitable companies in the business. There’s no reason they couldn’t become qualified…

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        4 天前

        They could.

        They haven’t.

        They won’t.

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            4 天前

            Commenting on what they’re doing right now is not meaningfully different. This started with you second-guessing their commitment to cartridges.

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              4 天前

              You’re mistaken. My statement was simply that it was wild that they were still doing it.