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View Poll Results: Retail or eShop? | |||
Retail | 14 | 100.00% | |
eShop | 0 | 0% | |
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Retail all the way. There is no way I'd download a Pokémon game off the eShop when I could own a physical copy instead. (Hey, I collect the games, and I own over half of every single Pokémon title released.)
Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; January 8, 2013 at 04:45:35 AM. |
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With the game being in 3D, a digital download could be gigabytes huge. Unless Nintendo implements a resume download option to the eShop in the future, a digital version would be a bad idea. I can imagine all the rage when downloads suddenly drop when it's close to finishing, forcing them to restart the download from the very beginning.
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Getting it for retail just sounds like a smarter idea in general. No long download times, no required good internet service, and you get the HOT box. Who wouldn't want that sweet Pokémon game case (which I collect ) and that beautiful manual? I'd never pass up that opportunity. However, I might get Y from the eShop if they do choose to make it digital.
Plus there are added bragging rights when physical. |
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Both. Because profit maximization.
There's really no reason not to do it this way, either, since it's a first-party title, and it costs literally no money to produce digital copies of the game itself, contrary to assembling and shipping millions of cartridges across the globe. But they'll probably still sell the game as physical copies in-store for people who are more used to buying them that way/don't have the means to download the games from the eShop. Thus, more people get copies of the game altogether, and Nintendo and Game Freak profit more. Nintendo has used this method in the past with their other first-party games, such as Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, and Ocarina of Time 3D. Last edited by mutsurf; January 12, 2013 at 01:20:03 PM. |
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