@skywake I'd think that the offline category in PC gaming is at least somewhat catered to by DRM-free downloads from the likes of GoG and Itch.
At least, once you've downloaded such a game once, that's it. You don't need to go online with it again, and you can keep a local copy of the installer if you want to put it on multiple PCs. In many ways that's even less restrictive than owning a game on physical media.
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That's a fair call, and definitely the best way to get games in many ways. It's also kinda why I generally don't get anywhere near as worked up about how various consoles handle licences. Ultimately digital content is not really preserved unless it can exist outside of the platform it was sold on. Physical or otherwise. Ultimately the only way to truly preserve media is to have a copy that's entirely stripped of any kind of DRM
And consoles are inherently not that
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With the way Nintendo is going, and the possibility of Pokopia being a GKC, they aren't even giving us a reason to buy their console for self-published games either, and the almost complete lack of third-party releases is pushing me toward grabbing a handheld gaming PC to fulfil my third-party and retro gaming itch.
But I have a pretty broad library of physical games on Switch 1 and plenty else on PC, so I won't be short of games to play no matter what happens. I'm only disheartened that so many of my favourite IP will eventually be co-opted by a generation of iPad/Reddit babies and deviate from what made so many beloved franchises so enjoyable (and/or meaningful) over the decades.
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"We currently have no plans to use game-key cards for Nintendo-developed titles
Now yes, the answer does specifically use the wording "Nintendo-developed titles" there, so there's every chance that games published by the Big N might be subject to a key card release down the line. But your major entries in the core series will be complete on cart for the time being, it seems."
@Bats1234 People just assumed it included games Nintendo partially owns and publishes. Afterall, it is the publisher which puts a game on a disk, not the developer. It was an incorrect but very reasonable assumption, especially since Kirby and Zelda Warriors are on-cart.
Even if Nintendo had intended to include Pokemon in their statement, the GKC decision might have been made after that quote, so they still wouldn't be lying since they included the phrase 'currently have no plans'. So none of it is lying, but it was very much corporate-speak which doesn't necessarily give us much confidence in the format of any future game card. The only thing we really know is that some Nintendo-published games are on-disk and at least one isn't. Time will tell if Mario Tennis, etc. are on-disk or not.
A compromise to GKC I think should be make them like $10 cheaper or print manufactured on demand carts for like whatever the extra cost of the cart is.
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