Capcom Has "No Plans" To Release A Physical Edition Of Devil May Cry On Switch

Nowadays, physical editions don't mean as much to me. Especially when we keep having updates after games come out.

Capcom has no plans for a physical release, I have no plans to buy.

No surprise really.I'm fine with it being digital.
Apart from Resident Evil 1/4/0, Capcom has been pretty fair with their pricing so far. I'll be surprised if Devil May Cry costs more than $20.

Who cares about this anyways? I'm waiting for DMC to get released, along with Play Station Battle Royal, which is far superior to Smash Bros in every way. Some would say Smash Ultimates fun gameplay and large roster with a variety of 1st and 3rd party characters was copied from that game.

You know what they can go to heck. Yeah go to heck.

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Just wait til you become like Sega then you'll understand Crapcom that we take our physical games seriously.

Digital is just fine.
Save the earth from more unnecessary plastic.

It’s the future of console gaming.

oh but onimusha got the physical treatment!

There we have it, NL! There we have it...

I’m a physical game monger till the day I day....except for indie games and ports. For some reason, I feel that these titles don’t require the physical love. Call me crazy!

There's certain titles I don't mind only having the digital version of, but I wish Nintendo would come up with a nicer way to organize them. For example, just adding folders to the UI would help a lot.

Was already a “probable” purchase; now shifted to a “wait for deep sale” purchase.

Yeah thats'a no from me dawg

So it's a straight port, not even updated at all? Oh how glorious an 18 year old 480i game is going to look

@BenAV same for me, but I'd also like to add the ability to trade or sell a $40+ game. Not sure I'll like the game and having it on my Switch with little to no play is a waste of space and money.

Of course I'd love to give it a shot since the series intrigues me. Maybe I'll wait for a sale.

They keep saying Original, so it's not the HD remaster? It's like they're shying away from answering it.

If it's a straight port from the PS2, It's a "hell no" for me.

@Skalgrim I agree, digital is awesome, but physical has its advantages as well. I like the used game market and is great for budget gamers and recycling/reusing old games. I can even donate my physical games if I wanted to. Unless the industry gives us more options to do with digital games after purchase, I don't see myself going all digital.

I think there's other industries that produce a lot more waste then the video game industry. Cases and such are normally reused and resold more often then say, a plastic ketchup bottle.

Makes sense. Capcom is not exactly known for releasing physical editions of all their switch re-releases.

I think people are reading too deeply into the "Original" part. They likely just mean it's the original Devil May Cry, as in, the first game. The website is showing HD screenshots, and why on earth would it be the PS2 version when there's a more recent version running on modern architectures that's easier to port?

Judging by the HD Trilogy released on other platforms, a physical copy of the game on PS2 is pretty much as good as this will be. Expect a very lazy port not a real remaster.

@Solomon18 it did, but you had to import it. which i did of course

Oh, well, then I have no plans to buy this game. Suck it up Capcom.

This and Resident Evil 4 not going physical makes no sense to me at all especially since apparently RE Origins Collection is?!?

Typical Capcom. No buy from me.

Ah well, they don't want my money.

@shining_nexus "I'd love to give it a shot since the series intrigues me"

If you like Bayonetta you'll like DMC. Same director. It's like a proto-Bayonetta.

OH ok then, never mind then, i'll stick to my PS4 HD collection

@Bass_X0 its the future yep. but lets enjoy the present..

Hard pass from me. In their terminology “I have no plans currently to buy their game”

My milk have runneth dry... I will not be milked any longer. Especially as RE4 will set a precedent on pricing for them...

The “how much can we get away with” approach they are taking to switch releases.

This is a horrible way to introduce DMC to Nintendo. The first time EVER that Nintendo got DMC and they make it digital only? Yeah, you lost my support with this game capcom. Congrats!

Capcom ought to be given some sort of award for excellence in consumer contempt.

Collectors may cry

Pricing better be good, as the PS4 version of the TRILOGY (!!) is under €30,- quite often...

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@mikegamer my guess is it's a port of the Remaster on PS3/360, which was also ported onto PS4 and XB1

still i have to ask why because it's not like the Switch will get all the games, yeah it might get DMC 1 through 4 but it wont be getting 5 will it?

Digital Only. Good, less clutter.
And as others have pointed out Physical nowadays just means you have bought a licence key...

It's not clear if it's the HD version either. Anyway I have the first three in HD version on Xbox 360, still unplayed, so not going to buy this one.

Capcom not planning on a physical Switch release? What a surprise...

When was the last time Capcom released a game on Switch cartridge?

@ROBLOGNICK Couple weeks ago. Dragons Dogma DA.

Capcom why you gotta be so lame? Are you trying to compete with Square-Enix for the title of most lame? Cause so far you are winning... We wanna touch our games with our hands, Capcom, not our eyes! Don't ever speak to me or my child ever again!

Not surprised. Okami HD didn't get a physical release for Switch either (edit: at least not in America...). I'm just glad to see Devil May Cry finally make it to a Nintendo system. Now I anxiously wait for the next Hideki Kamiya game to get an HD rerelease...
Henshin a Go-Go, baby!

@KayFiOS I bought a physical version of Okami HD. Japanese version (with an English option) was $25 in Taiwan.

And I'll stick with the digital PC version I got for free then. No sweat off my back, Capcom.

Man, some of these pubs are really adverse to western physical Switch editions lately.

@TurboTEF my guess is the cost and storage capacity of the carts is the issue, remember depending on where it's released it could require multiple subtitle languages and/or voice overs in multiple languages (especially in the EU) and those take up space

For those complaining this may not be the HD version that may actually be a good thing. The HD version is full of bugs not found in the OG version and they change things that change the intent of the OG version. I'd rather a straight upscale rather than the shody HD treatment DMC received... This was an era before we got loving and caring HD remasters like FFXII Zodiac Age, or Okami HD where the publisher basically had the game upscaled and did not care about what bugs were introduced.

For a full breakdown here you go https://youtu.be/pMhem6M5gWc

No one complains about digital music (or few do). This is not any different, I am fine with digital only

@retro_player_22 It will all be digital someday so get used to it. Why should I pay over the odds for a digital game when fanboy collectors are obsessed with owning every re-release and indie game physically. You should be the one being overcharged for this privilege and not me.

@Dman10 I look forward to digital only, as long as it is reflected in price.

Looking forward to putting this on my watch list with the RE ports and then never buying it because they price it too high for a digital-only port of a game I played 18 years ago.

Not really surprising it’s not getting a physical edition especially considering how old the game is so it’s no big deal, it’ll be a buy if it’s a decent price.

StevenG Has "No Plans" To Buy Devil May Cry On Switch.

Physical or GTFO.

@CupidStunt If you think that's how the world works, you are in for quite a shock.

Prices will go up and you will lose the ability to resell, gift or trade games.

@Dazzle How should they get several TB into a switch?

@Kalmaro The correct solution to that is to put a writeable section on the card. Then the switch would need almost no storage at all.

Well, there will be competition and it is regulated. Nintendo were fined 100 million in Europe for deliberately keeping prices artificially high. Sony has amazing Digital sales, it is Nintendo that are the greedy company (as much as I love them). Price things too high and people will go elsewhere.

Only if this was DMC3 would I be okay...

@CupidStunt @StevenG That and why remove the ability to gift games? That is like the biggest money making they do all year round. That's why games release around Christmas time is for people to spend money on games as gifts. That and they are not allowed to keep prices artificially high one quick look at Steam will show that prices go down and games go on huge sales all the time. RE2:RE was just 30% off just last weekend.

I buy physical when I can. If I can't I don't lose sleep over it because of some evil Boogie man coming to take my games.

No plans means totally plans amirite? Surely Capcom doesn't hate money

@patbacknitro18 can't tell if your joking or being stupid

@Wexter Steam is totally different.
There is more than one store for PC games. All console games come from the branded store, there is no competition.

Soon we won't be able to buy physical at all, and you are why. So long as the consumer keeps paying the same amount for something cheaper to make, that will keep happening.

@Dman10 If I'm paying for it, I want physical. I download music (for free) and if I like it I buy on vinyl.

Counter-point: digital music I can take with me anywhere. Switch games are locked to the switch, and knowing Nintendo's history, successor consoles will either not be compatible, or they will charge me to transfer my games.

No thanks.

Ill be buying no matter what

@StevenG It’s convenience. I have a 400gb sd card filled. probably 20-30 games. i’m supposed to carry that around with the console to game? i could care less about physical, i want convenience and as an adult i make more than enough money to not need to trade in games to buy more. physical buyers seem like children to me, kicking and screaming the entire way even though they won’t get what they want in the end. i have probably $2k spend on digital only switch games, only zelda is physical as it came with my wife’s switch, i am happily part of the problem as well

@shining_nexus what about the factories producing the blank carts and cases, fuel and carbon used / emitted during transport, carts that end up in the landfill because someone just threw it away. there’s a lot more waste than just the cases

@tekknik How many games are you playing at a time?
I am a grownup, so I have friends that borrow games and a child that might want to use them. How convenient will it be when they turn off the servers and your SD card dies? SD cards won't last like physical games.
Kiddo, I have games likely from before your birth. I still play them.

I have spend easily that on physical games. Once I can't get physical games I am done with nintendo.

@AstralOrange If you`re right, I`ll get it if its not more than 20 dollars. I just don`t have that sort of faith in Capcom lol. I wouldn`t be surprised at all if it was the original, non-HD port.

@Skalgrim Indeed, server farms, the tremendous energy to run them, and the disposable hardware, much of it plastics & toxic compounds that needs to be continuously cycled out from wear are so much better than a postage stamp sized piece of plastic. But it's ok, once absolutely every product we use is in one way or another distributed by one of 3 companies worldwide, we'll at least be using less resources! The new shackles don't even chafe as much as the old ones! It's a new world!

The sentiment may be fine, but justifying ownership, access, and property control, and the elimination of the concept of ownership rights, in addition to extracting maximum value through maximum cost cutting as some sort of benevolent "but it's to save the Earth's resources!" is pretty much the epitome of naivete. If digital were A) Not only really viable in the most monied locales compared to physical availability, and B) Had 100% transfer of ownership property rights same as physical, it could be more agreeable. But it's still not as "Earth friendly" as the brochure makes "the cloud" seem. Server farms are quite the toxic creatures when you add it all up. They're just prettied up compared to the average factory.

@tekknik But don't forget the server farms - the commuter traffic (and sub-economies related), continuous cooling, paving, landscape transformations to build the large energy grid they require, the power plant output increases , the arrays of diesel generators for backup, the endless scrapyard of HDDs (that take a lot of energy/fuel to produce, transport, dispose of, and use toxic compounds to produce), and the rest of the disposable server and networking hardware that needs to be discarded from wear on a schedule, all of which takes a lot of resources to produce and transport (with lots of toxic chemicals.) as well. Much like with electric cars and their disposable, volatile, obscenely toxic batteries - it doesn't actually eliminate the problem, it just moves it to where the people with the money to afford it can't see it so they can feel good about themselves.

@CupidStunt What a crappy comment for a crappy future.

@ClassSonicSatAm idk, would a Moron suggest that PlayStation Allstars had a far supirior roster of characters to Ultimate? With such great classic characters like Solid Sna..... I mean Cloud Str........I mean Simon Belm........I mean Piranha Plant -_-

And the award for Most Controversial Article of the Day goes to....

@Tyranexx It had "Capcom", "no plans" and "physical" right in the title. Was there any other outcome?

@NEStalgia Possibly, but you pose a fair point.

@patbacknitro18 I disagree since smash bros had more incarnations of the game than playstation battle royal. also the playstation game flopped, that's why they didn't make another one.

@retro_player_22 What a crappy attitude from a crappy person.

Of course we have to have a digital future. Plastic is going to run out. What planet are you from as you clearly know nothing about the one you live on, or just dont care about it as your collection of physical Nintendo games are more important. I will just assume you are about 12years old as to not judge you too much.

@StevenG hahaha, yeah I'm the problem for accepting that not everything would be released for my preference. I own over 44 physical Wii U games (almost a full third of its library) including the Limited Run of Axiom Verge and Devils Third. I also own over 20 physical Switch games. I just realize that it's pointless to complain about the lack of a physical release for a game that odds are would cost Capcom more to release physically at this point than just to put it on the eShop. They have the digital sales and physical sales of not just their games on Switch (Onimusha clearly was a test bed to see if it was worth while to release these physically or not), but also PS4 and XBONE for not just the HD collection, but DMC4:SE (digital only in NA) and DMCV and they clearly know something we don't about the franchises sales that justifies this decision beyond a conspiracy theory.

That and digital gaming has been king on PC for over a decade now with Steam which has almost been a monopoly even with Origin and GOG. They are only now getting real competition through Epic because of their aggressive licencing deals. And we still get great deals, the ability to share our library and gift games, and return games for years now. It is just better for the environment as well as we are using less plastic that is filling landfills and swarming our oceans. That and we are also using less fuel to transport those games and packaging to deliver them in.

Grow up and realize that things don't always go your way and not everything will be released physically not just because of progress, but also just practical financial reasons.

@ekwcll no, PlayStation all-star was such a masterpiece that they didn't need to make a second one. It's so perfect that it didn't need ytrash characters like Solid Snake, Cloud, Simon Belmont, A Persona Rep of any kind, or God forbid Crash or Spyro.

Capcom being Capcom again huh? Well too bad I shall pass this one then

What is all this rubbish about Capcom not releasing physical games on Switch?

Who actually cares. I am a huge Nintendo fan but the raging fanboys (you know the ones that act butt hurt if you do not like something Nintendo does), would literally buy a fart in a Nintendo Switch case.

@patbacknitro18 PlayStation Allstars was a poor mans Smash Bros, even the 3DS one wipes the floor with it.

@Wexter Cool, so I just won't play those games.
It's fine I have a lot of games already. When you can't play them anymore, don't cry to me about it.

@StevenG So Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo dont compete with each other?.....

@The_Mysteron I did like Bayonetta 2. Cool, if the price is right, I'll dig in, since it doesn't seem like a very long game. Otherwise, I'll wait for a sale while I catch up on my back log.

@StevenG I don’t have kids and other adults I know with a switch will just buy whatever game I want. If my SD card dies I can just redownload, up until they pull the plug on the server at which point I doubt I will be playing an old switch game. As far as how many games I play, we have LAN parties at work occasionally, in these cases about 10-15 of them will be launched in one night. When I’m just out and about it’s still more than 1. You’re also not thinking about the wear and tear on the cartridge port. What will you do when inserting and removing cartridges wear your contacts down and you have a problem like the old NES did. There’s pros and cons to each, and I don’t care about the pros of physical.

@NEStalgia do an ounce of research and you’ll find the typical waste from a server farm is substantially less than that of factories, delivery ships and trucks and all else involved.

Already have hd collection digitally on PC so this will be a pass for me

@tekknik Of course, because it hides half of the supply chain waste through energy production and the secondary industries involved in the hardware production, not just of that datacenter but all datacenters and network infrastructure, involved in its delivery, including at the telephone pole and consumer hardware level. Additionally it doesn't factor in the purchase of local storage, also manufactured, which would have been unnecessary with individual game purchases, or rather, the waste of both converge. It also doesn't factor into alternative industrial/economic activity that would be created in the absence of the manufacture supply jobs for the cartridges, unless the goal is to simply purge the excess humans, which honestly, is a pretty green idea. This never gets factored in to such studies, rather than factoring direct waste from direct manufacture. It's less direct to track all the involved elements so you get an incomplete picture of what's really involved compared to a fairly easy to itemize traditional manufacture process. Such studies are too narrow in scope, they focus on the immediate and direct impact and not the broad, large scale impact that gets affected several layers away from the direct output.

But regardless of that, it's still what has become the corporate rage these days. Sell the self-serving, thieving, one-way mechanisms of fleecing consumers and using the modern internet landscape to control how people even use the products they sell, then blanket it in some show of how "green" it is, so people like yourself support and endorse it. They are not making these changes to be "green", to "save the Earth", to make you happy, or to improve anything. They are doing it so that they retain control, tell you you have no rights to trade, sell, exchange, or modify the product you paid them money for, and can tell you when you are going to stop using it and buy a new one so they can maximize their profit potential and cost reductions to please their investors. They are not selling the same product with the same property rights attached, with the only difference being that one is more ecologically friendly. They are selling a different, alternative product with zero property rights attached, built in disposability, and convincing you it's all for a good cause. Of course it is. Their investors want a new 14 acre vacation estate. Shame it's so wasteful.

Note that I'm not anti-digital, in fact, outside Switch I've switched all digital on X1 and PS4. But I use it because the equation happens to work for me for a few reasons, not because I'm under any illusion it's any way less wasteful, or that the companies aren't trying to cheat me in the process. Also note, especially in the US, the bulk of the population doesn't even have internet performance that is viable for a digital landscape. And that's not going to change any time in the near future while the duopoly controls the internet infrastructure.

@NEStalgia I just find it amusing reading comments like "its the FUTURE" where as digital downloads have been a thing for almost two DECADES on PC..

Look at most modern pc titles tho and a lot of them either use always online drm or require peroidic checks on an internet connection.. both require servers, without those servers.. poof, games gone.. there are ofc places like GOG.com that offer DRM-free games but thats ussually older games or indie titles.. most triple a games require internet

So yeah, ill be buying physical on console for as long as possible

@shining_nexus "I did like Bayonetta 2. Cool, if the price is right, I'll dig in, since it doesn't seem like a very long game. Otherwise, I'll wait for a sale while I catch up on my back log"

Gameplay wise it's very similar to Bayonetta. Elegant sword and gunplay emphasising crowd control, juggling and big bombastic boss fights. It's fun, if a little dated now. Dante is a pretty likeable character too.

@tekknik Just like the NES, you replace the contacts. This is a solved problem.

@CupidStunt Not once you bought the console they don't.
So me this Microsoft PS4 games store.

@FullbringIchigo Capcom's gonna Capcom as usual that's why.

@NEStalgia you understand this is a comment board and not a free form essay board yes? I skimmed that because I don’t have that kinda time but you’re missing one huge point. If a decrease in demand in manufacturing decreases available jobs they must increase elsewhere. Further, the digital delivery pipeline has multiple uses, we use it for delivering media, audio, and other data (collectively known as the internet). If the factories producing game carts dropped to no demand, what would they be used for?

@StevenG Yea because that will happen.

@tekknik I have done it on plenty of NES, I will do it to a switch. Oh noes clean them up and put more conductive material on there. That will take minutes!

@tekknik "If a decrease in demand in manufacturing decreases available jobs they must increase elsewhere. "

Which is kind of the point. Then they will simply manufacture something else. Unless you mean all the people who used to push carts and pull levers in a factory will suddenly be able to be "re-trained for jobs of the future!" and become IT professionals, radio engineers, and nurse practitioners?

@NEStalgia it really depends on the demand for the services that factory can provide. if all they can make is switch game carts and demand drops too much then sure they will have to retrain. if they can reconfigure and produce other goods. not all goods can be easily delivered over the internet so in those cases it makes sense to use traditional delivery methods. retraining should not be viewed negatively either. no experience is wasted, even if it’s unclear how it relates and retraining can cost nothing if you know where to look and pick certain fields. you obviously can’t become a nurse or anything requiring credentials to even test for competence, but fields like software engineering or IT are easily attainable. not the tech type? tons of not tech jobs exist in the same sector and still require you to just prove competence in an interview or from past works.