Wii U May Introduce New Game Purchasing Method
The disc is rapidly growing obsolete in the world of media consumption. We're buying more and more of our entertainment in its purely liquid form: the downloadable file. Ask any PC gamer the last time she bought a game on an actual CD-ROM and you'll more than likely get a raised eyebrow. The direct download works nicely with systems like Steam, but it's given other retailers some problems when their less secure networks become compromised. The PlayStation Network hacks, for example, were reason enough for plenty of gamers not to trust their console link to store their credit card information. But the only other real option, besides tediously entering in card numbers manually every time you want to make a purchase, is to go back to the ways of the disc.
No one really wants to do that. If we wanted to go old-school, we'd go full-blown vintage with an N64 and its blocky cartridges. But what if there were a third option for companies who'd like to offer their customers direct download without forcing them to permanently store their financial info on their servers? The Wii U may have just the solution.
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