If you have been watching Sony’s decision to walk away from discs and wondering whether Nintendo would quietly follow, one of its senior executives has now given us a fairly direct answer. Thankfully, it’s the one physical media fans were hoping for.
Bill van Zyll, Nintendo’s Vice President and General Manager for Latin America, recently told YouTuber Coelho in an interview that the company has no plans to abandon physical releases, putting it simply as “There’s no plans to ditch physical.”
Describing Nintendo as historically agnostic about format, Zyll said the company goes by what consumers prefer and weighs that heavily. He also added the Nintendo Switch 2 is barely a year into its life and was built to support both digital and physical games, with Nintendo well aware of how much fans like the physical side. That is a sensible position, but notice that it is a position about listening to shoppers rather than a principle about owning games, and those are two very different kinds of promise.
"Historically, we've been very agnostic, right? We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very heavily. We also have a platform that was just launched. We're barely...
