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NEWS: Capcom VP: Digital Ace Attorney 5 Release Will Not Hurt Sales

Ambimunch wrote:

Mr Adventure wrote: You do own digital (in particular how eShop purchases are handled*). Its ridiculous to say otherwise. Some people don't put as much stock in plastic and metal bits as we do THE GAME. Which is what you get when you buy digital games. *even if you can't move them between devices easily How can people say they own a game if they can't play it outside their system? You can't even take it to your friends house. And when your system dies, so does your game with it

And when your cart dies, your game dies with it. Nothing is permanent, and its feasible to sell the entire contents of your system SD card to another party (though not individual titles, I don't believe).

You do own your purchases, they are yours. And what's ultimately the difference if a game is storied on a custom cart, or stored on the hardware of its system? Easy sharing and reselling is not something a manufacturer must insure.

I found this comment pretty lol

razisgosu wrote:

Not going to buy a digital release. I want my games able to be held in my hand via cartridge or disc, able to pop it in at anytime. I don't want to have to keep track of it and hope I can download it again if I need to.

Like its not MORE convenient to have the game fully loaded on the device for playing any time. Over being "able to pop it in at anytime"

blarg01 wrote:

Zac wrote: On the 3DS your games are tied to your account, not the console. You can buy a new 3DS, move your games off the old one using basic SD card-reading software, plug 'em in to the new one and they'll work provided you're logged in to the same account as the old one. The issue you're talking about is on the Wii U only. If that's the case, couldn't you use someones login for club nintendo, that being the ONLY thing you use to tie said accounts, and download a friends digital game? That's why I have my doubts about that since the ticket ID's of the old system and games would not match on the new system. Which is why you have to go through of that trouble of system transferring and be connected online while you do it so nothing screws up.

Actually that's not what he said. If you lose the 3DS, you're still SOL, but if it's broken, you just need to take the SD card containing your games out of the system and into a new one. Once you set up the system to your old account you can play them on the new console.

And there are enough people who just want to play video games and don't care about physical media. And there's nothing that you can do about that.

If they also make these games physical then its fine, but digital only is a bad strategy that they're simply trying to force on us.

If they also make these games physical then its fine, but digital only is a bad strategy that they're simply trying to force on us. At the end of the day, as a consumer, I can take my money elsewhere and be just as happy (but it hurts them if many people stop buying their shit)

Ambimunch wrote:

If they also make these games physical then its fine, but digital only is a bad strategy that they're simply trying to force on us.

They aren't forcing it on us. They're doing us a favor. Again, the economics of the whole thing we're lucky we're getting the GAME AT ALL.