{"id":799961,"date":"2026-10-12T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799961\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:00:11","slug":"nintendo-latin-america-says-it-wont-abandon-physical-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799961\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Latin America says it won\u2019t abandon physical media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill van Zyll, who is the vice president and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America,\u00a0has said in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/universonintendo.com\/nintendo-afirma-que-nao-tem-planos-de-abandonar-jogos-em-midia-fisica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> that there are no plans to discontinue physical media. Discussions on social media have become frequent as of late due to Sony <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2026\/07\/01\/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirming<\/a> it plans to ditch discs with the PlayStation 6 which has not gone down well with consumers. Thankfully, Nintendo doesn\u2019t have any plans to ditch physical releases, as of yet. Here\u2019s what Bill van Zyll said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHistorically, we\u2019ve 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\u2019re barely just over a year into NS2. It\u2019s got both digital and physical \u2013 that capability. There\u2019s no plans to ditch physical. We know how much the fans like it as well, so our position has been to be agnostic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill van Zyll, who is the vice president and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America,\u00a0has said in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}