I'm using the same 2gb card that came with the system. Well, I've been thinking about upgrading my card anyway. £4! Nintendo want almost as much for a VC Gameboy game. They're Windows only and I have no Windows PC, so I can't even play them, but they cost my a combined total of £4, and now they'll be waiting there ready for the day I do end up with a Windows PC. Heck, I bought Max Payne, Max Payne 2 and Fable: The Lost Chapters last week. It's so convenient to have these games in your library, and because they're so cheap. Almost everyone I know buys far more games on Steam than they will ever be able to play, for the above two reasons. They're making a huge effort to push eShop downloads, but instead of a big marketing campaign they just need to get the basics right. They could probably drop it to £20 and STILL be making more profit than physical copies. The dumbest part is if they charged £25 for a download, they'd still make a lot more profit on that, than what they are for the physical copies. Animal Crossing pre-order £25 at Tesco, Donkey Kong £27 at ShopTo, Fire Emblem was £27 at ShopTo etc, but Nintendo want £39.99 for all these on the eShop. It's easy enough to use a price checker ad change your price to match. If they took the step of making sure every big retail game was no more expensive than the physical version, then it would be a no brainer and I'd download everything. If my digital purchases were backed up and could be re-downloaded to any machine I was logged into it, then I'd pay a lot more digital stuff from Nintendo. It's almost like they don't know how to do it, but that sounds ridiculous. I don't understand why Nintendo are being so stubborn over the unified account thing. Not having all those boxes cluttering up your home is wonderful, but you also don't have to go hunting for discs and books, and they're going to last forever unlike physical media which can be lost, damaged, or even just degrade (there's plenty of evidence for CDs kept in cases for 10 years and then no longer working when they're taking out due to chemical degradation). I'd love to go digital only, just like I have for music, books, movies and PC games. Nintendo are shooting themselves in the foot.
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