Virtuos Emerges as the Developer Working on the L.A. Noire Port

Just get it all on one cartridge please.

I will hold off on any game that requires additional storage to play a game. Looking at you NBA 2k. 😠

@MegaTen 28.4GB installed, or 28.4GB space needed before downloading is allowed? Typically, space is needed temporarily as it downloads so it can then install.

Anyways, I'm recalling Rime, where for such a small-sized game, it still tacked on an extra $10 for the Switch version. It was also found out that Tantalus was responsible for the port, not the original team. Makes me wonder if this "outsourcing" is what's causing the Switch versions to tack on extra cost rather than the cartridges.

@Spoony_Tech it is what is. If most people are going to have a large SD card at some point and this could cut cost on a game because they put it in a smaller card, then bring it.

Jeez guys I get that Taketwo is doing some weird stuff with 2k18 but this comment section is pretty unrelated to the actual article

L.A Noire on switch should run fine, I would be a little dissappointed if no textures whatsoever were touched up but Virtous is at least trying to make unique selling points. Will purchase if it isn't a mess.

Hopefully they do a good job.

@MisterKorman it is a straight PS3/360 port. With 3d rumble, touch and camera view as the new features on Switch. The remastered is ps4 and x1.

@DTMOF84 It is Crap! If too many companies do this then we will have to have multiple memory cards. I already want RE Revelations 2 and that's a good deal over 20gigs. That's more then a 5th of a 128gb card. I would also like NBA 2k but there goes another 5th of the card and then some. I didn't buy a Switch to spend another 200$ plus dollars on expanded memory. I'd rather pay the extra 10$ tbh per game.

@Spoony_Tech Take it to Nintendo. They should have provided a SD option, instead of micro SD, as well as the possibility of an external HD, no matter how cumbersome it might be.

The 32GB card costs more than 20 bucks more than regular 16GB cards. Everyone thinking that the developer should foot the difference in price, is delusional.

@DTMOF84 Wrong, because in a few (or many) years, when the servers stop running and there's no way to download the game, you will be left with a useless cartridge instead of a fully functional game (even without updates and such), which is exactly the point of a cartridge.

Just imagine not being able to play a SuperNES game because there is no way to download the remaining necessary files...

I rather pay a little more and get the whole game, than save a few bucks and get a crippled game. In that case I'd go digital from the beginning.

@MegaTen Where have you heard this rumor? I've heard nothing about it, and I heard nothing about LA Noire until it was announced. Not that I hear everything, of course, but my Twitter feed is pretty good about informing me about rumors for video games and soccer transfers.

@PanurgeJr That rumor comes from NeoGaf. One of the Gaffers, vern, talked pretty extensively about the Switch's OS/UI consciously being as minimalistic as possible before the system launched.

@maruse damn man.... I didn't actually think about that at all. I primarily buy cartridges/discs as I want to be able to pick it up at any point in the future and play it. If that's true then it makes me worry bought the longevity of my Switch in terms of playing it like I do on my N64 every now and then.....

i'll say it. virtuos so?

@maceng The 32Gb card costs 20$ more than the 16Gb card?! Please, where do get your infos from, Mr. Insider? 🙄

@IceClimbers You'll have to explain to me how some dude talking about a minimalistic OS translates into a Direct on Wednesday. If you mean that the source is the same I can explain to you how those betting tips scams work.

It will be on a 16 gb card with a mandatory download. That is my guess.

@MrBlacky

From this site actually: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/feature_exploring_the_switch_tax_and_why_nintendo_was_right_to_use_game_cards

He's just a bit confused about the pricing part of it. The article said that the total cost for the 32GB cart is apparently above 20 bucks for the publisher, NOT that the cart is 20 bucks more expensive than the 16GB one.

The article also states something that's more important imo: the cost of 8GB carts is roughly the same as the discs being used for Sony/Xbox games.
With that information we finally have a good way of checking whether the Switch Tax is justified or not.

@PanurgeJr
No, it's true. This guy leaked LA Noire back in January. And he is saying there should be a Direct this Wednesday.

Which... he was clearly correct about LA Noire. People thought he was wrong because nothing was announced at the system launch and then nothing was announced at E3 yet here we are and now we see he was right all along. So what I say is this- let's find out if he's right about this Direct also, and if he is, then we need to start taking everything he says very seriously

@NinjaSyao
Whether it is or isn't... honestly, it doesn't matter. It is what it is and it's not going to change so, you know... I've just accepted it. Life isn't fair, it sucks, but ultimately I'm still getting more bang for my buck buying a Switch version for $10 more, and I really love cartridges so again, it is what it is. If people absolutely refuse to pay it, guess they can always wait a month until the price drops by $10 and... there ya go.

I'm pretty sure I called this back in august

Acknowledge ME!!!!!!

You probably meant Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age.

21St century gaming will involve larger game file sizes for AAA games. Service games will require future updates and content.
It is best to have these games digitally.
I am buying cartridge versions for complete, definitive games. Cave Story, Rayman Legends, Disgaea 5, Fate Extella.
Fire Emblem Warriors, Zelda, M octet Hunter will be digital. The will be way way too many SWITCH games released so I'm not worried about trying to get a large physical collection, but I would love to have a few premium games on my shelf.

Give me better aliasing and at least 900p docked and I will be happy.

@23NinjaSyao 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I am sorry, but there is NO way, a 32GB card cost (more than) 20$! A comparable SD-Card doesn‘t even cost that much for the end-costumer and this card is rewriteable, which makes it even more expensive in production.
Again: I‘m sorry, but I just can‘t believe that!

@MrBlacky

Ugh... did you tag me accidentally?

I said nothing about ant SD card cost .

@JaxonH Yeah sorry, somehow I replied to you instead to the post above your‘s! 😆

So excited for this game never got around to playing it. And its coming this year! I will support rockstar, fingers crossed RDR gets a release too over gta. Although gta would be sweet too..

Looking forward to seeing how this version presents itself. The box art is already quite a bit more fetching than the original.

I was playing FFXII: Zodiac Age yesterday, and while the game was great since the beginning, the job made with the remaster was outstanding, so I'm even more confident that L.A. Noire it'll be a blast on the Switch.

So many PS3 games are coming to Switch... if only The Last of Us and Uncharted are not owned by Sony. 😞

@MrBlacky From an article in Nintendo Life

Here's hoping they give it the same love they did with FF XII and not the iffy Batman remasters.

@MegaTen @JaxonH I was going to reply with skepticism, but after reading the email notification of Jaxon's comment I decided, what the hay, let's see if Nintendo has said anything. They had tweeted it six minutes earlier. So I guess we have another Laura Kate Dale. Yaaaaaaay.

@maruse do we even know for a fact that you're only getting a partial game in the first place? Years from now no one is going to want to play an outdated sports game anyways.

@Spoony_Tech call it what you want. But if you want to play the newer games from third parties then this may be the route they go. Or you can keep playing the little indie games until you fill up the 32 gb and complain Nintendo didn't give you 64 gb instead.

Also, the $ goes before the number. Example $200 not 200$. I guess they don't teach that anymore.

@PtM so you've never bought an Xbox One game and have a huge update before you could play.

@DTMOF84 No, we don't know that yet, but if you need to download GBs in addition to the data already on the cartridge... how can you call that complete? It's just common sense.

And about replaying the game again years from now (and I'm not talking about this game in particular)... Well, your comment it's just your opinion and, honesty, doesn't hold itself.
Following your line of thought I guess then that nobody wants to play outdated NES or Super NES games anyway.
It's not very difficult to see the flaw in your thinking.

@Spoony_Tech So did you hold off on Animal Crossing on the Gamecube?

@Quinnsdaddy11 Nope, had 4 of those stupid memory cards but they were much cheaper.

So the AAA game we're getting... is an updated port.

@Spoony_Tech much cheaper than the $30 64 gb micro SD card I just bought?