Thread 715764328

Mad how Nintendo got rid of physical vidya before Microsoft. I guess flash storage is just too expensive

Just don't buy them. I won't.

>>715764328 (OP)
>nintendo
Every nintendo game on the system isn't key card

>>715764670
No shit, but one of the biggest tendie talking points about switch 1 was 99% of games being on the card. Now only a handful of games are on card. It's a slap in the face for physical bros and barely anyone is rioting

>>715764328 (OP)
>Nintendo got rid of physical vidya
they didn't though
all of the keycard-only games are 3rd party

Like I was ever going to buy slop like SV6 or FFVII remake anyway

>>715764328 (OP)
The writing was on the wall when the PS5 had a cheaper version without a disk drive. (which is also the model they advertised more).

>>715764328 (OP)
>get switch 2
>browse eshop
>shovelware as far as the eye can see

>>715764328 (OP)
Don't get how is this different than the box that you buy and just had a code inside?

>>715765707
>doesn't just buy the nintendo console for the exclusive
>doesn't already know what they're buying
>actually "browses" for random shit
do zoomers really?

>>715765765
how else are you going to know about videogames on the switch, when you buy it you're not aware of any unless they're bundled

>>715765749
The difference is that you can sell or share key cards, whereas you can't sell a cd-key after redeeming it.

>>715765749
You can resell or lend the game key card
A digital code is tied to your account/console

>>715764328 (OP)
>Friends want me to play destiny taken king with them
>Why not
>Get game, put it in my PS4
>100GB install
>Wtf
>No space on hard drive, can't delete anything else because it would be GAME IS GONE
>Have to spend $60 more on an external hard drive
That's what started my hatred for digital only

>>715764328 (OP)
ps/xbox already had this happening for years. they just dont announce that the disc has no game in it like nintendo does with the game key stuff

>>715764787
>and barely anyone is rioting
Fake news. Game Key Cards are failing to sell across the board. SEGA are now considering a physical version of Racing Crossworlds with the full game on the cartridge

>>715765832
Then in theory is better ... Worst than a normal card.
And it will be used by cheap ass companies like Activision that did not include all the spyro trilogy in the disc

>>715764328 (OP)
>Nintendo got rid of physical vidya
Their first party games are all physical, lying faggot.

>>715765832
those sell cards will degrade with time and they won't store the proper key causing the switch 2 to go haywire and ban you for using illicit software
this was confirmed by an engineer with 140 IQ btw

>>715764787
>tendie
Stop lying, Eric.

>>715765914
Oh, Sega seems to have confirmed Crossworlds will be fully on the cartridge btw (sometime in the past 24 hours).

>>715765930
>Then in theory is better ... Worst than a normal card.
Yep.
But despite them having a forty minute direct explaining it, a treehouse section explaining it, and having ti literally written on every single box,
almost no one in this thread understands how it works.

Grifting and its consequences on society will be studied decades from now.

>>715764328 (OP)
Microsoft already did the exact same thing last gen because they were too cheap to support blu-ray larger than 50GB. The only difference is they didn't even bother to inform the customer when they were buying empty DRM coasters. Sony will be in the same position next gen when the average game bloats to over 100GB.

>>715764787
>It's a slap in the face for physical bros
Literally every company is openly shitting on collectorfags now. It's over man.

>>715764787

“Collecting” games is a mental illness, Nintendo is doing you a favor

>>715766116
>because they were too cheap to support blu-ray larger than 50GB
But discs were going to become irrelevant with game sizes nowadays anyway. Which is why the switch to high storage and high bandwidth m2/NVME ssds is happening. Especially regarding load times of where disc read speeds cannot compete.

>>715766369
I used to be an avid collector but one day I realized it was just just glorified hoarding. I was never going to play all those games. And if I really meant to, it would be that much easier simply to emulate. Now I only keep physical copies of games I truly love. It feels better (I truly was neurotic about collecting, I owned nearly every GCN game, I owned multiples of all Nintendo, Sega, and Sony consoles, store merchandising materials, guides, controllers, etc) having put all that behind me.

>>715766537
And it's worth noting that the only way you were going to get your games to load faster was everything being done on express lanes. So it's a double edged sword with physical, you could load everything from the disc but would you put up with the load times being way slower? I'd wager not. That is why discs are disappearing.

>>715765896
>because it would be GAME IS GONE
you can only download digital one time on playstation?