If Nintendo wants to be really progressive, they could offer the ability to "resell" your digital copy for "trade-in" value for another game's digital copy. Done with Luigi's Mansion? Why not resell it back to the eShop (essentially lose your access to the game) for the conservative sum of $10 in eShop credit? Or they could restrict it towards only a game of $10 or higher value, thereby ensuring a profit.
What would be even cooler, is if they set-up a Trade Market in eshop in which you could trade your digital copies of games with other people. Perhaps, a digital copy of a game could only be traded once (only the original owner), in order to offset an infinite loop of trading.
Nintendo could even create a "used digital copy" marketplace, in which the used copies would be discounted, and the market would only be there if people actually traded in those games for eshop credit.
In short, there could be alot more "inventive hooks", incentives to purchase digitally, especially when the prices are often higher and fixed. Personally, as a new 3ds owner, I own two games so far, both physical copies. Being able to resell a game that I'm tired of to recoup some of the cost, is hard for me to turn away from. Though I love the convenience of being able to download digitally, and to have the game always on my sd card. Under the right impulse mood conditions, I would probably cave for a digital copy of a retail game.
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Re: Talking Point: The Download or Disc Dilemma
If Nintendo wants to be really progressive, they could offer the ability to "resell" your digital copy for "trade-in" value for another game's digital copy. Done with Luigi's Mansion? Why not resell it back to the eShop (essentially lose your access to the game) for the conservative sum of $10 in eShop credit? Or they could restrict it towards only a game of $10 or higher value, thereby ensuring a profit.
What would be even cooler, is if they set-up a Trade Market in eshop in which you could trade your digital copies of games with other people. Perhaps, a digital copy of a game could only be traded once (only the original owner), in order to offset an infinite loop of trading.
Nintendo could even create a "used digital copy" marketplace, in which the used copies would be discounted, and the market would only be there if people actually traded in those games for eshop credit.
In short, there could be alot more "inventive hooks", incentives to purchase digitally, especially when the prices are often higher and fixed. Personally, as a new 3ds owner, I own two games so far, both physical copies. Being able to resell a game that I'm tired of to recoup some of the cost, is hard for me to turn away from. Though I love the convenience of being able to download digitally, and to have the game always on my sd card. Under the right impulse mood conditions, I would probably cave for a digital copy of a retail game.