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For the same reason companies want pre-orders. When Microsoft announced their games would cost 80 dollar this year, they had to price drop them back after low pre-order count instead of waiting for launch day and doing the walk of shame of having to lower the price immediately upon release then issue a partial refund.

As for Nintendo, they only have 2 next-gen exclusives on the Switch 2 (Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza). They're probably gauging what the post-launch hype period of Switch 2 will be like. At launch people have limited game selection and they're more likely to try out a game, but once the dust clears all that's left are 2 Nintendo exclusives and a bunch of 3rd parties with GameKey Card cancer digital garbage.

With only 1 month after release, I'm glad this survey exists. SquareEnix has a ton of Switch 2 games, but they're all keycards. Out of all the publishers, that one should be keenly aware what sales must be like. I would rather they skip "physical" if they're doing keycards like ATLUS is doing with Persona 3 Remake (doesn't even have the DLC). There's pretty much nothing any of them could do to convince me to buy a keycard unless it's 10 dollars and that's begrudgingly. Also when I took the survey Nintendo was very curious about why I didn't have a MicroSD Express card.

They cost 80 dollars for a "good one" that's like 256GB. I would rather own 512GB for the Switch 2 but not at these prices. I just found that so weird, I said no to express cards, and they wanted to know why.