Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

Digital Switch 2 edition of Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is releasing same day as Prime 4, upgrade path is $10. Physical is still scheduled for Early 2026.

@FishyS No doubt. We don't officially know anything for the holidays, and even though they could have 1 game a month through September just with the stuff we do know about, I'm sure there's at least a couple titles releasing during that span that we don't know about.

For a while now I've been looking forward to playing Dragon quest 1 & 2
Today I found out that there is no physical copy for the Switch 2.

I'm seriously considering selling my Switch 2 and revert back to my Oled.
The reason Square say there is no physical copy, is because the memory cards are to expensive.
If I buy the switch 2 copy with the downloadable code that will take up nearly 7 GB of my memory. It will cost me up to £10 more for the switch 2 version and I'll have no resale value. To put it politely, I think Switch 2 owners have been ripped off.

Hyrule Warriors has Gameshare! Not only local but online as well.

Gonna play with my brother this weekend despite him not even owning the game. Gameshare is one of THE most underrated features of NSW2.

@zool
If you only care about physical then its probably not a system to buy 3rd party games on. But SE revealed 80%+ of their sales are digital. 5 months on the market and yet DQ1+2 sold over 33% of the copies NSW1 did at retail, almost matching PS5.

So most people don't feel ripped off. Most people dont care. I certainly dont. I'm so over physical games- they're an antiquated inconvenience to me.

@zool
You know you can just buy the S1 physical and play it on your S2, right?

I’ve done that for a bunch of games. And most of them you’ll get a little bump in load time performance or even frame rate.

I never understand this mentally personally. Three things I have realised, especially as I get older, that made me stop caring about this kind of thing:

1. I never sell the things I collect anyways
2. Things take up space and space has a cost
3. When you die both you and the people you leave behind won't care about your trinkets

Those three thoughts stop me from buying stuff I won't actually get enjoyment out of. Stop me wasting money on stuff I don't need. Stop me worrying about the "value" of stuff (excluding for insurance purposes). I still get fun gadgets and media and collectables but I only get stuff based on what I think I can get out of it not based on what it's "worth"

As such I'm happily in the digital space for games. Unless the physical copy is a better deal

@skywake true

@skywake
But let's be honest for second: A lot of people (even some of us) judge physical collectors by the Youtuber collectors we see. We see these "gamers" sitting in their gamer chairs (lol) with the bookshelves full of game cases behind them, entire rooms bursting at the seams with handheld consoles and massive collector's edition boxes and stuff proclaiming their gaming prowess to the world (lol again).

But in reality, I would wager that most of us who collect physical games don't take up nearly that much space. Every game I have for my Switch and Switch 2 is physical, and I have well over a hundred games, maybe even close to two hundred. And I don't have shelves full of cases and all that.

I keep the actual cartridges in these cool little cases I got from Amazon that fit right under my TV for quick access, and the game cases themselves all fit in one plastic bin from any hardware store, and it's at the bottom of my closet. Done.

And yea, you're right, I'm never going to sell these games. But honestly, why not have a little resale opportunity up your sleeve for the future just in case, if the day ever truly comes where I find myself never playing games again? Digital gives you nothing - no possibility to make any of your money back IF you ever want to. With the physical, you have that possibility, or your family does when you're gone, to make a nice little chunk of change for very little effort. We don't live in the 80s and 90s anymore - you don't need to go through the trouble of hosting a yard sale or something to offload video games. You pack them up, take them to a game store or ship them to one of dozens of companies online, and you get cash. Anybody can do it.

Ultimately, collecting anything physical is the same deal, but some of the "loudest" people do it very impractically and make everyone else look bad.

I used to have physical much more and I also used to sell physical much more. Last times I sold, I looked at 3 choices:

-Complicated online sales. Best way to get money but takes a lot of time and coordination and I am usually too tired from my day job. Plus I don't have a very convenient to get to post office.

-Just sell at a game store. You get pretty atrocious rates. The last time I did this I realized I barely got more money than the bus fair plus it took a fair amount of time.

-Sell (or give away) to a friend. I don't have children but my friends do and are interested in historical gaming. I mostly did this recently. I sold insanely cheaply because I would have felt bad otherwise but I got rid of the physical clutter and at least the games went to a good home.

Overall, the money back doesn't seem worth it to me, so I generally go for digital now. Especially since digital often has better deals (although Nintendo games are the exception). I figure if I run out of money for my hobby I can simply replay all my digital games since they can't break or be lost etc (another problem I've had with physical in the past).

But that all said... given the price of Switch 2 first party games, for those willing to play a game once and immediately sell it for maximal resell price, that is certainly a lot of bang for your buck. Personally I usually want my games for years at minimum so I wouldn't do that.

Done testing out Kirby Air Riders demo (you can access the lessons outside of the global demo time) and it wasn't... Bad? It's a bit too fast for me but I have some fun.

A bit surprised since I usually don't enjoy racing much

@darkfenrir Hopefully the full play test over the weekend is more fun … the trial race at the end of the tutorial left me a bit cold, sadly. I really like Kirby and usually racing games as well!

@jfp I hope so too! Right now it feels a bit boring too to me since well... I kinda want story kind of person?

A bit of an issue :') i think some of the boringness is because the tutorial is very limited. Wish they let you just do a few runs of your own lol

@darkfenrir Yes, it felt a bit boring. The (very short) race track as well. But I will reserve judgement till tomorrow, after I played a couple of full races. And maybe the story mode will do it for you, though it's not in the play test …

@jfp hopefully you enjoy it more tomorrow!

And yeah it's unfortunate the story or roguelike mode isn't on the playtest because those are my favorite part when shown in the direct. Will try out some games to see if I enjoy the gameplay though

@FishyS
Sounds like you got ripped off if you took some games to a store and didn’t get much
more than a bus ticket’s worth of money? Unless you’re grossly exaggerating. Or you’re talking about GameStop lol

One time in 2012 I got like 12 bucks for three 3 year old games or something crazy like that and decided I'm never selling my games there again (which so far has meant selling zero games to anyone, which is for the best tbh).

@kkslider5552000
Yea, unless it's a game within its launch week or they're running some kind of trade deal, never ever ever sell to GameStop. Ever.

I pretty regularly sell stuff to my local game store. It really depends on the game. I had an extra copy of FF Tactics sitting around for decades... got 15 bucks for it. Not bad. I have more Game Boys than I can count, and I can usually get like 60 bucks for one of those. A half-dozen common 360 games (Call of Duty, Fable, etc.) got me around 80 bucks a few weeks ago.

If you're taking games to a game store and they are lowballing you to the point where your transportation costs more, please never go there again to sell games lol. And personally I will never use his service, but Phoenix Resale has an online pricing tool (QuickFlips) that you can use to see what he'd pay you. He pays 20 bucks a pop for loose copies of Wii Sports.

Wii Sports. Just the disc.

So yea, it really depends on the games and the store. People always think it's the rare games that make the most money, but honestly it's the evergreen, popular games that consistently sell for solid prices.

@rallydefault
Yeah, storage isn't tooo bad for me either. I don't collect games that much anymore since physical has been an option but I do have a fair collection of physical games, BluRays, CDs, Vinyl etc. Plus old consoles, random PC hardware, gadgets and so on. I have a couple of five shelf 1800x450x800mm cupboards in my study (not converting that). The boxes full of random USB/Power/AV cables I may one day need take up more space than my Games, BluRays and CDs

But it's still space being taken up for not really that much benefit. And again, I never sell these things. The fact that my original in-box great condition with manual copy of Pokemon Crystal is apparently worth more than the Switch 2 itself? I mean it's nice. But I'm never going to sell it so the resale value of it is pretty academic

Yeah, GameStop is the only store anywhere near me which buys games. Well, there is one other weird one but it gives even worse prices unless it's something rare. There used to be more but they went out of business. As I said, I used to sell games more but don't now, partially for that reason.

But also ... The more common Wii games are insanely cheap to buy used online so of course they are even less money to sell through a third party.

Since we were talking about the economics, clearly the real good deal is to buy physical used games a couple generations after the fact. Or to buy digital the day the eshop closes and there are insane sales 🤔

I'll wait to play the trial to make an opinion, but I really want a racing game with a really indepth story. I'm still disappointed Mario Kart World didn't.