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Kind of funny how Nintendo was here before any of this was a problem and they'll be here after it's all done. You put that cartridge into your console, and you can play it. It may be version 1.0, but you can play it. And every single physical Switch game that requires a download, must state so on the front of the box, so you can avoid buying them. It'll cost $70 a decade from now, but it'll run after you pay it lol
Nintendo is pushing for digital very aggressively in their marketing to gear people towards digital only.
Give them a generation or two more and you’ll have them doing the same shit Sony is doing now.
Because NES locked it down at propertiary carts and still do...
That drastically increases the cost of Ninetendo games, because Nintendo is the only one legally allowed to make the blank. Even gamecube used tiny discs.
If you wanted to sell a NES game, you had to buy X amount of blank copies from Nintendo, then pay Nintendo to put the code on the blank, then pay Nintendo a licensing cut to sell...
Like, it's not like Nintendo had consumers best interest at heart, they just nickle and dime developers at every step, which is why Nintendo versions costs more.
Oh yeah, I never said they had good business practices. We're well aware of that. But, at this point, holy fuck. All they have to do is exist while Sony and Microslop repeatedly blast themselves in the balls. Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing.
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Hardware/Nintendo-Switch-2/Nintendo-Switch-2-Game-Key-Cards-2785635.html
I will say at least with those you can still sell them, trade them, whatever. Unlike digital games.
The difference is more that they'll be useless in 25 years or whenever Nintendo pulls the plug on the download servers.
Yeah, like I said,
All the switch 2 physical games are empty, the games are all digitally downloaded
This is not true at all. Where... did you even hear this? Kind of reminds me of the nonsense that was being parroted a year ago.