Nintendo executive confirms company has "no plans to ditch physical games"
Bill van Zyll, VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America, has reiterated Nintendo's stance on physical media, confirming that the company has no immediate plans to move to an 'all-digital' future.
Bill van Zyll, VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America, has reiterated Nintendo's stance on physical media, confirming that the company has no immediate plans to move to an 'all-digital' future.
The short version
- "Historically, we’ve been very agnostic, right?" says van Zyll in the interview.
- "We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very heavily.
- We also have a platform that was just launched.
What happened
We're barely just over a year into NS2. It's got both digital and physical – that capability.
Why it matters
Developers like Hideo Kojima have given their two cents about the proposition, and even CD Projekt Red has said it'd be powerless to do anything about physical media if Sony decides to stop supporting it.
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