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Unless the full game is on the card, they can keep it.

Look at you, Hacker.... panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.... how can you challenge a perfectly immortal God?

@NinChocolate the true step forward will be if those key cards aren't a "one user use" case, and can be loaned out.

The whole point of putting 1.0 on the cartridge is to give us the ability to continue playing on new systems once the eShop goes down. Ive also found that in instances like Risk of Rain 2 that it also helps roll the game back if the devs make a patch you don't like. While a lot of people will side with the prof, those are still valid reasons to side with Kick.
Edit: then there is the fact you won't need a big initial download. Some of us here in the US are still on metered connections, and we tend to have data caps that now seem stringent.

@Gatorclops it makes the system easier to tell apart in a multiple-system household, especially when players like the same games and same colored joycon. I can't count how many times I've accidentally grabbed my sister's Switch out of the dock, thinking it's mine, until I upgraded to a Switch OLED.

@Alcea because the Switch you can take anywhere, the PS5 not so much (unless you count streaming, but I personally do not).

@FourBs you also have to remember the cultural differences... handhelds are gonna sell better over there due to commute times and the like.

@Serpenterror Jak and Daxter are Naughty Dog, not likely to happen. Ratchet and Clank is also not likely to happen. They're supposedly gearing up to release another proper PlayStation handheld, and they'll need games to entice people to buy it (they don't want to use all their bullets on the Switch right now)

@RenanKJ then they can lose a subscriber as I put all the older games I want on an Anbernic 35XXSP. In the end, it's NINTENDO who loses.

I've always wanted the Virtual Console back. Seriously, the only reason I buy Switch Online is for cloud saves.

I asked NightDive for System Shock 1... they now need to give us System Shock 1

@libersolis part of it is collecting. Another thing (and I'm not sure everyone does this) I'm rebuking games as PHYSICALS that I have digitally. The 3DS eShop closing wiped out 99% of my 3DS library... NEVER AGAIN

@Ralizah that last point has been hitting me harder and harder as the older console generations have been shutting down their digital game stores. And, to an extent, I continue to pay for it, as a lot more of the games I want as a physical are only being produced by Limited Run and Super Rare ($90+ for a physical of N++: Ultimate Edition when the OG price was $30, but only 4,000 copies were made). I'm done buying digital only if it means I lose it when they shut down

Time to sell my original, because I doubt the DLC will be offered as an upgrade option for OG owners. Why do I bother supporting Atlus?

@Warioware to be honest with you, I have over 100 games on my Switch and have only consumed about 300GB of my 1TB card (ofc I have my NAND about half full, any games I play often goes here, otherwise I prefer to keep it free for system updates).

@papa_frezz 1TB microSD card: am I a joke to you?

MicroSD card swapping as a concept: at least he acknowledged you, I'm chopped liver!!

@Chojimaroji yeah, ROMs that they either downloaded or dumped off their cartridges/NAND.

Digital-only consoles are USELESS to me, especially since I like to buy pre-owned/ share my games occasionally. All-digital eliminates pre-owned games and makes sharing your games a living hell. Xbox can suck my left nut before I buy a Series S/ all-digital Series X.

@MedusaMadman77 ngl, there where microtransactions in PAC-MAN 99, but they weren't egregious. Paying $1.99 per skin, $15 for mode unlocks or $30 for Deluxe which unlocks all skins and game modes in what is otherwise a F2P game to paying subscribers isn't really that awful in the grand scheme of things (if anything, paying the money for the mode unlocks means I can play the offline modes when the game DOES die). Devs of F2P titles still have to make money, microtransactions facilitate that, but not all devs will be predatory about it.

Another thing too is you give no reason as to how or why what you're saying is addictive, then again EVERYTHING is addictive, that's why there is a saying... how's it go? Everything in moderation?

I'm counting down the days until PAC-MAN 99 goes offline... it's the only reason I keep a Switch Online subscription now. Even save data backup isn't enough to justify it.

@Don no, he is a lot better than those two (especially these days).

@calbeau that's purely you, and I get that (I'm the same way about Xbox, except whatever I'd want on Xbox also hits PC)

@flighty I buy strictly for functionality. PDP doesn't have the features I use to warrant buying their controller for my use anyway (if it doesn't have the re-mappable back buttons, I don't want it).

@theModestMouse you've never had a skin give you an advantage, have you? Even a redesign can be a major advantage (think different scopes/harder to spot).

I've already thought about what Blizzard has done as possibly being good, but when you experience a skin that you have to pay for shrinking a player model down in such a way that it ruins the game, you'll understand why I still object to Blizzard doing what they did.

@ElRoberico not really. I've played on a launch model PS4 without it sounding like a jet engine.

First the PS4/5 release, then the PC release. Now it looks like I no longer have to cave and buy it on Epic Games Store just to play the game on the go.

@Vyacheslsav333 540p30 is playable, especially since movement is fast in this game (and there is a heavy emphasis on movement, anyway)

@flighty to be fair, a bog-standard Pro controller is $70. For $50, you can get a wireless Power A controller that ditches rumble and Amiibo support but gain 2 re-mappable buttons on your controller grips (compared to a standard Pro Controller, I think of this as an upgrade). Amiibo are ludicrously difficult to get where I live, so much so that unless you collect them Amiibo support might as well not exist. Doesn't help that Nintendo deliberately makes them scarce. Rumble is something that I'm disabling on a case-by-case basis. If I'm playing a game where I need to make split-second decisions rumble becomes a distraction.

If it's wireless as well I'm sold. I love being able to plug headphones into my DualShock 4/DualSense and Xbox controller, I was starting to wonder how long it'd be before I was doing it on Switch.

The perfect Switch to play Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary on...

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/08/esrb-rates-beyond-good-evil-20th-anniversary-edition-for-ps5-xbox-series-ps4-switch-and-pc

Hope you all at Nintendo Life are ready for a good time!!

@Daimando Ima wait for a physical. Game seems like it's gonna be good, I'll probably want to also loan it to a friend.

@calbeau if you still got a PS3/Vita it's on those, too.

@Snatcher I just don't get why you'd go through the hell of making a sequel if all you're gonna do is overwrite your original. So much wasted time and effort, both on the developer's end and the player's, and to add salt to the wound Overwatch is the only IP I've seen Acti-Blizz do that with. Sure, I played the crap outta StarCraft: Brood War when I was 12, I can go back and play it again (just like Wings of Liberty/Heart of the Swarm/Legacy of the Void). It's just that shareholders view video games as disposable

@Snatcher it's always been stupid. What's worse is this sets you up for an Overwatch 2 situation (you can't play Overwatch 1 anymore because of it).

@Bizzyb this kinda crap shouldn't have happened to begin with, but if iirc Blizzard is the one that started it with Overwatch 1. It's one thing to pull a DOOM and have to download a mode of the game, I don't mind that. Single player was on cartridge, and you need internet for multiplayer anyway.

@Snatcher why even buy it on sale?? Disney is already a sinking ship, why support it?

@GrailUK yeah... I didn't get to use GamePass for more than a week, as I don't get good internet at home, but the moment gaming discards physical entirely I'm done. I already know I won't be going past the PS5/Series X (sorry Series S and PS5 digital edition, you've always been e-waste to me). GamePass already has gaming at ransom, the domino effect is apparent.

Why? Just why??

All this is doing is wasting a retail case!! If you're just gonna sell the code, do it on a paper card and leave the game cases for actual cartridges!! And even then, why the f**k would anybody want just a case if they're getting a physical copy of the game to begin with?! You completely missed why people buy physical in the first place!!

HARD. PASS. JUST LIKE OVERWATCH ONE, JUST LIKE FORTNITE.

@TheExile285 Ikr? SSDs have us all spoiled rotten! ToTK loads faster than a 3DS game, and 3DS games never exceeded 30 seconds load time for me.

@Smug43 despite all the jank that comes with the genre, there are those of us here that find games like this "fun." "Fun" is subjective. Would YOU call it "fun" to sit there and draw a new tag in Jet Set Radio? Probably not, but that was a part of the game I'd spend HOURS doing. Kind of a shame they don't let you do that in this game.

@SwitchForce I'm one of those that buy the game then dump the cartridge I own to use in an emulator. That is how emulators where originally meant to be used, that is honestly the best way to go if you have the hardware to do it.

@Leu10antFalcon lol I'm just PC locked, but I'll admit that everything runs better on PC because of OPTIMIZATION, which after Pokémon Scarlet and Violet it sounds like Nintendo doesn't optimize their games even for their own consoles. If you aren't going to optimize your game to run at the slightest a stable 30FPS it's unplayable, let the players take over and optimize it using mods. Skyrim took this path and it's still being played despite being a 12 year old game (and a rather buggy game, at that).

It's sad that a piece of software on a computer can run a game better than the console it was originally meant to be played on, especially when said console can STILL be easily aquired.

OK... so all we gotta do is get this working with original GBA cartridges and the wireless adapter. Then we are really getting something started.

@Darknilious this is a game that requires your upmost attention to order to comprehend. I hate saying this but I'd turn the TV off and just focus on the game, as it stands I even have to leave the room to play this as my partner watches TV because it's so much of a pain missing a story beat due to distraction. Then there is the death mechanic... if you aren't familiar with making a corpse run, good luck.

It's in the name... "Online Service".

It's time to catch up to Xbox/PlayStation, Nintendo because "the children" excuse just doesn't cut it anymore. Not to mention that I still have and use my Nintendo 3DS, not owning the retro games is the biggest crock of bull you could ever feed us when we where able to outright own retro titles in the past. And it probably wouldn't be that hard either since you already have all the ROMs there and in a modern format, all you gotta do is some quick button rebinding for all the stuff on the second screen (as a result Nintendo DS games wouldn't work unless it's like the Wii U... huh, they had something going on but it was so confusing....).
Then there is the fact that there are no dedicated servers for games. Splatoon 3 desperately needs dedicated servers, the amount of times I've been disconnected during Turf War/ Salmon Run is bloody annoying considering it drops everybody out of the match instead of auto-filling. 55 hours of fun but it all comes to a screeching halt because your net code is $#!7.
All I pay $20/year for is to back up my saves, that's all. You can provide better, Nintendo, you just don't want to.

I'll get it on sale later, I'm still fixated on getting Demon Throttle

Never played Splatoon, I guess I'll jump in on 3 since I missed the first 2.

@Yosher a few basic color themes? That'd be FANTASTIC! It'd be even better if they did for the Switch what they did with the 3DS, I'd actually PAY for a new theme for my Switch homescreen if they did.

@Orokosaki I know, right? Just because I'm a white guy doesn't mean I'm inherently evil. I just wish we could all see each other as human beings and just live but that's not the way this world works.

@Bobb yes, actually.

Wait, Nintendo... did you just make it to where I can't log into my Microsoft account for Minecraft??