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Nintendo's Ability To Ban Switch 2 Consoles Has Landed It In Hot Water (www.nintendolife.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But it isn’t any different from what was happening on Switch 1. And only a few physical game releases are actually key cards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Except this time around it's already looking like a minority of games are going to be on the carts. The blank key only cards are cheaper, so publishers are choosing solely because of that to maximize profits.

Previously on the original Switch the key carts were often games that didn't fit the onboard space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There were no key cards on the original Switch, only some games (like Doom) that would only have some of the data on the cartdridge and some downloadable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well, on top of that the Switch 2 Cartridges come in one size, 64GB, and it's allegedly something like $14 USD per cart.

If your game is 20GB in size, why would you want to eat up that much of your profits on top of Nintendo's cut?

It's a tough choice to make. I won't support 'Game Key Cards' because that's stupid but I like to buy physical games because if I'm going to buy digital it'll be on PC.