Not sure where you got you prices from, but Elizabeth II's total wealth is about $450 million (if the art collection was hers, it would be included in that total). Still a lot, but stuff like the castle and art collection are not personally hers, they belong to the monarchy.
Anyways, Nintendo said they are now working on setting it up so that third parties can release their Wii U games both at retail and digitally (like most first party games will be).
So why doesn't England have a King anymore? When Queen Elizabeth II dies, who will be the next Queen? Prince William's wife Kate, or whoever Prince Harry decides to marry?
I'm glad Nintendo seems to finally be back on track with supporting 3rd-party publishers. Though I remember when Nintendo tried supporting 3rd-party publishers during the GameCube era, and they got abandoned back then too. So no matter what Nintendo does, it's a lose-lose situation, I guess.
It's a hereditary monarchy, the oldest child (regardless of gender) inherits it (I won't get into stuff that could affect it, like Catholics and those married to Catholics being banned by British law from inheriting the throne). When Queen Elizabeth II dies, her oldest child Prince Charles will become King Charles III. Elizabeth is the monarch because she was the oldest child of her father King George VI.
As for digital versions of retail games, I think I would only do it if it was cheaper. If the versions are the same price, I would prefer the retail version.
Ok, that's enough of that political talk. Anyways, I'm still skeptical of Nintendo's ability to convince 3rd-party publishers to support their systems. They've had some success with their handhelds, but on home consoles, it's a different story.
Nintendo tried to get exclusive support with the GameCube, but they were abandoned again. Then the Wii came out and caught the entire industry by surprise. Developers were reluctant to support it because it was too "underpowered" compared to the competition.
The whole "power" debate just shows how hypocritical these developers / publishers are. If it's power that developers want, then the PSP would have gotten more support than the DS.
The developers who claim to want more power so they can make better games would have thrown all their support at the PSP instead of the DS, but clearly that wasn't the case. Same thing with the PS2 vs the GameCube and Xbox.