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I have always been a huge fan but haven't ever played a new one on release to my knowledg, this is going to be special!

@Thomystic If they sell Nintendo won't care about the whining and if they don't and are discontinued then Nintendo still won't care about the whining.

Comparing them to a fan driven effort to get Nintendo to sell a product people want to buy does not make sense.

Hey, sometimes that's how it happens, a little make out with your pals, no biggie.

Personally I can tell Mario has a thing for her but I think she's kind of his quest so they won't get together. Bowser is eternally keeping him from shooting his shot so despite their closeness she will always be his love interest and not his partner.

I wish y'all would stop doing these stories. I was so excited to read the interview and y'all had to sour it by whipping people into a frenzy about GKCs. We know people hate them and we know companies use them because they want to avoid code in a box, he obviously thought people would prefer GKCs to codes and wasn't trying to lie to anyone. People need to just buy digital or nothing if you want and stop bringing this into every conversation of every game.

Edit: I see now the base price hasn't been released and only the special edition pricing has been released, so I removed on part about that.

I would equally ignore artices like this to avoid that discourse if every sales chart, game review, and discussion wasn't inundated with people complaining about it. It's making discussion about topics unrelated to Game Cards less fun. I know fans care but I really wish y'all wouldn't fan the flames by making an entire extra article for people to vent if they're already venting all over the rest of your articles.

Please either moderate discussion elsewhere so that its contained to this type of article or don't feed the frenzy.

@Arawn93 it's pretty common for people to think opinions in their corner if the internet is the opinions of most people when the millions of people playing this game probably never cared about the patch to begin with.

Also, MK8D is actually the best selling Switch game of all time and the 5th best selling game of all time period. People love Mario Kart and most people aren't picky enough to agree with fans who constantly find issues with changes in game franchises.

People may compare them unfavorably for a moment sure, but no significant portion of customers is going to boycott a game or complain to Nintendo about the things fans discuss all day long. As long as people buy the SW2 people are going to want Mario Kart World.

I have to agree with Bananza at the top right now. I love the classic DKC games and the modern ones in that style but Bananza is a game unlike any other I have played and I feel like down the road it will be remembered as just as ground breaking as the original DKC was on SNES.

I'm looking forward to this, I always love BL for Switch because having a LAN party with other players in the palm of your hands is my favorite way to play.

Not going to mind the FPS, compared zelda before and after and while it is a neat upgrade I don't see how it affects play quality for me.

I have a nice PC that can get high FPS by the way, portability and ease of use are just much higher on my priority list.

@Jack_Goetz
The game being tiny only matters if you're still assuming a tiny capacity cart is significantly cheaper, which no one has any evidence of.

In fact to me a tiny game makes more sense for GKC, why add on an expensive cart when it will barely affect system memory? Wanting a full physical for a game like Cyberpunk that would take up a ton of strorage makes way more sense to anyone who doesn't care about the principle of having a game on cart.

@Suketoudara I'm pretty sure they already confirmed $60 for SW1 and $70 for SW2

@KociolekDoSyta the comments section of internet articles would be a thousand times better if everyone took you attitude, thank you for having a modicum of maturity and not focusing your hobby on being mad about series you used to like because games change over time (like all media).

@jfp

I know you misunderstood the first comment but it will definitely be that way. I saw at least one person under the mario kart review bombing article say "that's right, Bananza is next, burn greedtendo" before the comment was removed so there will unfortunately almost certainly be a crowd of people trying to spoil the game for everyone to make a point.

95% of people won't notice the dips, even if they did Nintendo has always worked this way. There comes a time when you choose if you want more intensive gameplay that makes performance wobble or if you want to prioritize silky smooth input. Sure Nintendo could delay the game to iron it out or add more graphical settings to lower resolutions so it can stay high fps, but if I'm being honest I would rather get the game now than have to wait longer just so a subset of demanding fans can get performance upgrades.

Nintendo has literally never worked that way and Nintendo will always prioritize gameplay and fun over fps counters, as they should.

It's fine if people don't want those games, but I do think its naive to think Nintendo will ever prioritize a bargraph that never dips over a game they think is fun.

@Peteykins I know someone that loved it and is very hype, it's definitely more niche than some games but they must have faith in it to give it a new full release after all this time

@Rayquaza2510
In the same form factor that would be compatible with Switch 1 so they can maintain backwards compatibility?

I can't find specific info on SW2 card specs, but even if you have that info I am pretty sure they don't have pricing on what it costs to manufacture SW2 carts specifically.

As far as bringing MicroSD Express back from the grave, I don't think that's super relevant. They chose a factor that worked for them knowing the downsides. You saying they pulled it from the grave doesn't do anything to prove that Nintendo definitely had cheaper options they choose to skip over when it comes game cards.

People can't even come up with a reason why Nintendo would do this besides wanting all the smaller carts for themselves (pretty nonsensical) or them being greedy and choosing an expensive format makes them money somehow?

Nintendo bad or greedy is the only reasoning people have and there isn't enough benefit in them choosing this for that to be a good reason either, clearly you have made your mind up though so we don't need to continue this back and forth, I won't be convinced until I see solid proof and not just "I've seen cheaper, faster memory" available" with no evidence for what it would cost for Nintendo to manufacture that.

I just hate this ongoing narrative that Nintendo is purposefully withholding some cart size without a real reason that has zero evidence and wish that the website itself could avoid engaging in hearsay. They also said maybe review bombing isn't so bad if it gets Nintendo's attention the other day. I just really hate this rumor and hearsay based "news" going on recently because there are very few places that focus on Nintendo news and even the writers have to feed into unsupported narratives people pass around when new sites are supposed to exist entirely to do more research and not make baseless speculation.

@Rayquaza2510
Do you have a breakdown of the memory speeds between old and new carts though? Because if MicroSD express is need for the internal memory to properly power games and that is essentially high speed MicroSD then it's likely that the NAND is higher speed than normal to support modern games.

IGN even mentions the new carts have upgraded speeds
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-gets-upgraded-red-game-cards-and-microsd-express-storage-support

So while my example was admittedly completely wrong to directly prove that smaller game cards aren't feasible I still don't think it's right to assume this is an arbitrary decision on Nintendo's part and not likely due to a similar issue with MicroSD Express where manufacturing cards smaller than a certain size just isn't feasible cost wise.

I can't find exact numbers on the differences in read and write speed but I am pretty sure you couldn't get Cyberpunk on the type of cart that SW1 used.

I searched the wrong format, my bad, there still isn't really proof that smaller sizes would be cheaper to manufacture at speeds compatible with Switch 2 games so as much as my example was wrong I still think its irresponsible to report as fact that Nintendo is withholding options without having any evidence it would be cheaper to produce or more affordable to publishers.

Edit: I searched the wrong format, my bad, there still isn't really proof that smaller sizes would be cheaper to manufacture at speeds compatible with Switch 2 games so as much as my example was wrong I still think its irresponsible to report as fact that Nintendo is withholding options without having any evidence it would be cheaper to produce or more affordable to publishers.

Okay, everyone in the articles and comments broke me I just made an account for this.

Do me a favor and search for 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB MicroSD Express cards... if you completed that step you will see they don't exist. There is no cheaper option Nintendo is withholding, it doesn't exist. It would in all likelihood be more expensive to start manufacturing smaller cartridges than to just buy 64GB ones.

I knew this was a common misunderstanding but to see the website itself spreading this outright lie without even double checking if smaller sizes exist disappoints me, people make up enough stuff without the people they rely on for reporting buying onto commonly believed lies without double checking