Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Thank you for finally seeing the dark side lol. I swear I thought you were going to sugarcoat this somehow like you usually do. I've been in a sour mood all morning bwcause of this. Not for my sake because I can buy whatever I want when I want but we are in the minority and most won't be able to afford all these extra expenses.

The ball is now in Nintendo's court but I don't think they even see they have a problem. They better wake up before something negative happens and start offering up solutions other then passing large downloads off on the consumer.

I also think 3rds know they are going to get some backlash on this so they're announcing these dl's as late as possible.

Ouch. I guess we'll see how drastically this impacts sales for big third party games on the Switch.

If this is going to be the normal practice with large third party games, I know this has already been discussed vigorously in this thread and other Switch threads maybe the time has come to allow external hard drives to be connected to the Switch dock to allow transfer of games.
Not everyone has enough money to put down on a 256gb micro sd cards. Here in the UK the price of a 200gb card is coming in around the £70, but the 256gb card is almost double at £131.99. The price of the 200gb card is not too bad, it could be worse though at least Nintendo didn't go the proprietary memory card route like Sony did with the Vita, those prices did sting!

I have a sneaking suspicion that the issue isn't actually the manufacturing costs, but rather the fact that third parties have to buy the carts from Nintendo, who is charging ridiculously high fees for them in order to make a nice chunk of profit.

@JaxonH Yeah, I don't have a microSD card for my Switch yet but I'm going to get one soon so I don't miss out on games like DOOM.

Also, thanks for your advice in one of the threads about keeping 10% internal storage unused. I was having XB1 problems after the 2 most recent updates but when I transferred 2 games over to the external, it's working much smoother (before was about 7% unused and after was 11% unused).

Surely every dev wants the industry to go fully download only. So this partial download issue could work in their favor long term, as buyers get increasingly conditioned to downloads.

But hopefully, as Snitch install base increases, the price for these game cards might come down.

@gcunit Better watch out. Snitches get stitches.

@Spoony_Tech
I've never been thrilled about these companies cheaping out, but until now it was always an either or situation. Either a large download, or it cost more. This is the first time it has a large download and costs more. There is no way that extra $10 doesn't pay for the jump to a 32gb cart multiple times over.

And that's why this pisses me off so much.

At the end of the day, at least Nintendo's games and all the middle market games won't have this issue. It is well and truly only the AAA 3rd party titles. A 400gb should cover it for me. But it does put a damper on my plan to buy all Nintendo's major 1st party titles digitally. I better plan for more space being used for crap like this.

They're selling us half games. Half games. Half the game on cart... What's the point.

@MegaTen Twice the price, though? Puyo Puyo Tetris was only $10 more for the physical release and that came with keychains.

Glad they released in digitally so that we got it for $20 on the eshop.

All I can say regarding EA's statement is...well...

It sold through the physical allotments that you, yourselves, EA, gave it. It sat high on the eShop charts for a good period of time.

I repeat. It sold through the physical shipments that you gave it. Which means it sold through what you initially expected in that regard. Add on digital sales.

And then take your comments regarding "Support depends on FIFA 18" and watch how that has changed to "A year on the market". Christ EA.

@MegaTen Games like Wonder Boy are tiny, though. And even if they weren't, you can just delete games when you're done with them if you need to space. A lack of digital hoarding behavior is why I've managed to get by on the default space provided for Wii U and PS4 all of these years.

I mean, it's a nice option, but that price is outrageous. Especially when games like Ittle Dew 2+ are launching on carts for $29.99 with manuals and everything.

Nintendo’s New World, From The Switch To Phone Games To Theme Parks
_{Nintendo U.S. president Reggie Fils-Aimé on why the Switch is a hit—and how all the moving parts of the company’s business fit together.}

https://www.fastcompany.com/40488804/nintendos-new-world-from...

Nintendo Is Still Oddly Tight-Lipped About The Switch’s Tribute To Satoru Iwata

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-is-still-oddly-tight-lipped-about...

Are you getting paid by all these sites to post links to their articles here?

Owlboy has a release date: February 13th!

@Octane I wish.

@IceClimbers Also getting a physical release, although the platforms aren't confirmed yet. I'd assume a Switch version is in the works as well.

I must confess, I am not elated about these 1/2 physical games at retail. I hope someone has asked Kimishima about it at their meeting. It certainly needs addressing.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo has a rule that physical games must at least be playable from cart.

So.

The question is, will L.A. Noire be playable in some way from cart? Even NBA 2K18 let you do quick sessions from cart without any download. It was only one time matches, but you could totally play the game from the cartridge. That needs to be the case here as well. I could accept this better knowing the game would at least be playable in some core fashion.

@JaxonH NBA is different though as you just play one game where L.A. you play a continuing story. Outside of say here's the first mission but the rest must be dl'ed feels more like I'm buying a demo version of the game with paid dlc. The paid part being part of the cost of a memory card.