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I've owned at least 4 3DS (Recently sold a day one). Currently have the 3DS XL Year of Luigi and a New 3DS XL Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. The MH4 Ultimate is my go to over anything I've owned.

VF is at the top of my fighting games list, so this is a match made in heaven... Nevermind, it's a Game Key Card. Sadly I'm on the edge of dropping support of my Switch 2. Remember the good ole days when Nintendo said GKC's were an option, but not all games would be GKC's.... (Yeah, I didn't believe them either)... well here we are where pretty much all the 3rd party games are GKC's. This generation has been a colossal disappointment.

Wish there was a physical copy coming. Here's to hoping one of the companies that shall not be named picks this up for a release.

Looks good, I'm in. It's a key card, I'm out. This generation has been a disaster for physical collectors. On a happy note though, maybe I'll pick it up on Steam for $10 bucks at some point, I'm not completely opposed to digital, just have to pay the right price for not actually having the game.

Hasbro is an absolutely atrocious company. They have single handedly destroyed some of the best brands of the 70's & 80's in the last 5 years in my opinion.

This is why I have around 450 Switch 1 games and only 2 Switch 2 games. Going to have to buy some books to fill in the spot on my shelf I had reserved for this generation.

Really does look like cosplay

@snil4 Agreed, they definitely are making a big push towards digital this new generation.

@Nep-Nep-Freak Right there with you, I've purchased 2.5 Switch 2's and I am completely satisfied with what I've paid. Mind you I have always looked at them as a Switch Pro, so I get lots of use from mine. The .5 is in that I paid for half of my sons, the other was for my wife.

The +20% on trades means nothing when the trade value can go up and down day to day. Ie, a store near me closed and the coupon says I can get an extra 20% trade from 1/15 to 1/30. What's to stop Gamestop from reducing the trade value by 20% the day before and keeping it low during this period? So the feel good bonus could mean nothing, also as trade is based on inventory if everyone is trading at this time that would lower the value as they top off the inventory.

Hopefully a better quality control than some of their other offerings (X5s broken left trigger).

Here's to hoping since it's such a small footprint and been out forever it won't have the issue that NEOGEO Selections Vol 9 just had, which is a day one 202mb download. Defeats the purpose. Either way, I think I own these collections in at least 2 or 3 formats... but I'm always down to buy it again if it's actually physical.

I recently got the NEOGEO Selections Volume 9, and it has a day one download of 202mb.... of all 10 that have come out, I believe this is the only one that has a day one download... so, what's actually not on the cart? Whatever it is or isn't... it's an arcade archives cart, so you'd think they would have gotten it right before it went to print.

@Anti-Matter Totally agree, all the games I thought I would be excited to purchase kind of went....... meh. I have now purchased 2.5 Switch 2 machines and have yet to buy a Key Card. I'm simply not interested. Mind you I'm happy with my Switch 2 as it provides a great way to upscale my large collection of physical switch 1 games.

@Dark-Luigi I'm seeing it at number 11?

@Debo626 My steamdeck and I were talking yesterday, and it mentioned that it doesn't have a problem reading graphic intensive games off of its good ole standard SD cards. Said to really think twice if Nintendo is saying otherwise.

So there is still hope that I'll have a Switch 2 collection by the end of the generation... Happy Holidays indeed.

If only 8Bitdo would make that Dreamcast one at their normal $90 to $100 range.

@ArcadeSixties
I disagree. I'm an adult and here are some facts:
1. I don't resell, so I really don't care how much something is worth. Hell, I have a $9k comic I found in a box that I now have sitting somewhere on a shelf, which I really don't care either way. I didn't buy it because I was investing, I bought it because I liked it and for that reason I keep it.
2. I enjoy physical media for the sake of physical media. Anything less and it's just not the same and defeats the purpose of owning anything at all.
3. I love to have a lot of games available to me at any given time. One of the things I hate most about modern gaming is "wait while this downloads".... I just want to play the damn game now, not tomorrow. Having to delete this to make room for that, download... oh wait there's a patch... Wait, now I want to play that game over there, delete this game, download that game...Oh wow, I'm at 3tb on my internet this month.
4. What's even worse than adults complaining about wanting what they pay for, people complaining about adults complaining about wanting what they pay for.
5. The reason MS and Sony get away with it... well, it's the reason I pretty much dropped them and went to Nintendo. They just followed suit with the crappy practice now. They were the last bastion of modern day physical media gaming that people like myself look for.

@Anti-Matter Honestly, I feel exactly the same. Even when I see a game I'm interested in I'm only excited until I see it's a GKC. At that point I find another console to buy it on.

@Jeronan Kinda crazy when you think about it, the easiest way to reliably play a game in 2025 is to dig out the system you had in 1986 and play it.

@ozwally While I don't disagree, I trust my ability to pick something up and actually do it without issue even more than I would trust others like DF. I don't need the weather man to tell me if it's snowing outside I'll simply look out the window, so Nintendo saying they "need" the faster transfer speeds doesn't make sense. More like, they would "like" the faster transfer speeds and not bothered by the consumer paying for it.

@ozwally Which is crazy when you consider that my Steamdeck as well as a lot of other handheld systems don't have a problem with data transfer speeds even with a normal SD card.

It's a good thing those SD EX cards are so cheap already and only getting cheaper.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT Well, I've owned a switch 2 since day one, even bought one for my wife (to play old games better), and I've yet to purchase a single Switch 2 game beyond Fast Fusion for $15. I purchased roughly 450 games during the switch 1 generation, mostly physical, and now I'm thinking I may own 10 or so this generation.. I guess I'm doing my part.

@Debo626 Honestly, other handhelds that are even more powerful and play games better don't even use EX cards, so really it does feel a little slimy when you add it all together.
1. New more expensive memory format
2. Higher priced games games in general
3. Almost no physical games sold, so you need that higher priced memory card to store their games.

So what do we get, we pay more for not owning anything, and then we pay a premium for the storage to put it on.
Yeah I get what that person was saying.

@jfp The problem is when you pay that much for a game, you like to load, play.... play something else, play something else, come back to it and play it more.... wait you had to delete it to play those other games.... delete other games, load, play.... But you knew that.

@Lizuka What do people do or say that makes you think they think Stardew is the only farming game that should be allowed to exist?

Looks like a black box to me, or if I have to, half an xbox series x. Nah, just looks like a small black square. Ether way, as I'm getting out of modern day gaming, I'll probably pick one up to play through my almost 800 steam games in a more palatable way. Why don't you just get a pc they say, because I had been on pc's for decades, and I really don't like MS and I like the ease of a console much more.

@roy130390 I agree with you here. Absolutely love this series.

This is one of the three games I'm willing to purchase as a GKC if needed. Love MHS1&2 and got so much time out of them. As for the Standard, Standard Deluxe, Standard Super Deluxe, Standard Super Deluxe Ultimate, Standard Super Deluxe Ultimate Max, Standard Super Deluxe Ultimate Max Premium versions,.... Yeah companies sure have lost their way. But I guess money can do that to people.

I'm happy that Nintendo is upgrading existing games for the new system, but I'm also a little let down thinking that it looks like they are just going to be happy re-releasing old stuff with a new coat of paint. I'd prefer new stuff.

@Jborgy Ironically the patch removed 4 mb from the footprint on the switch 2. It went from 202 mb to 194 mb. So I'm thinking no on it making Galaxy the same

At some point it will be realized that people want stuff created by people, warts and all. If the dream is that AI is going to make these amazing things, the "amazing" just becomes cookie cutter normal, at which point it's the human stuff that will stand out.

@SpiffBo It's the one I'm using to type this now, and you can get it quit often on woot for as low as $60.

Already have two physical copies of this game, but if you haven't tried it... it's really good.

I was in the market to pick one up, that is right up to the point that Microsoft raised my monthly sub price from $20 to $30 without notice... factor in I pay for 2 subs in my household and I just wasn't willing to give them $720 a year for a subscription service. Suffice to say, I dropped to the lowest tier until I decide whether or not I'm just going to drop them al together... And I've been there since day 1, back over 20 years ago.

The quick math says I purchase 50 to 60 a year. That will be slowing way down I'm sure as I'm not really feeling the Switch 2 era. Most of what I'll be playing is Switch 1 games on my Switch 2, and that catalog has very few games I'm still in the market for.

@Anti-Matter I've been playing the Switch 1 Klonoa with zero issues on my switch 2? What's the issue that everyone has been having?

@FishyS Interesting, I've played Klonoa on the switch 2 with zero issues.

@DsheroX Yeah, I'm excited for the day I find one worth buying. It's even worse that I've purchased 2 Switch 2's, one for me and one for my wife. Now to be fair I still love my Switch 2 for playing Switch 1 games on a bigger screen and running better so that part has been worth it. I love DK, but the new game didn't appeal to me at all as I don't like flashy stuff in my games as I think it detracts from the game... Ie.. blinding you from what's actually on the screen. I have CP on a couple of other platforms so I didn't pick it up here and RF, I just wasn't looking for. Probably a good game, but that series hadn't hooked me. Anyway, good luck to us both for future games, I think we are going to need it.

@DsheroX Same here, I have a shelf of Switch 1 games that is roughly 12 feet long, I can fit my physical switch 2 collection in exactly zero feet long, because up to this point I don't own a single Switch 2 game beyond Fast Fusion digitally.

@AverageGamer OK, so then basically I don't have anything to talk about during the Switch 2 era based on the fact that what went from an option, to pretty much every 3rd party game is now a Game Key Card? Nah..... I'm sorry I bought my Switch 2 with the intention of getting games for it. If I'm interested in a game I should probably be able to discuss it, sadly if I'm not willing to pay full price for an empty card all I know about said game is that I don't own it. That's what I'll talk about. You do you.

@AverageGamer This is kinda the point, it's a pretty big deal for many reasons. People aren't so much talking about the game at this point because they are not able to purchase the game in a format they like. Ie.... Nintendo's dumb decisions are keeping people from the games they should be talking about. So instead I suppose we only have the fact that we aren't getting the game to talk about, which leads us back to why we are not getting the game. You could say Microsoft and Sony have done the same thing, hence why I stopped collecting on their systems and Nintendo became the last bastion of hope we would continue to get physical games. The fact that Nintendo said we would and they still use the cartridge slot at all kinda led many to believe they were still safe for another generation. We were not. Oh well, it was a fun ride at least.

I would agree that it's silly when people complain about people complaining about game key cards. The bottom line people like what they like for their own reasons. In the case of most games coming out on a GKC, it is a big deal because a lot of people purchased their switch 2's thinking they would be able to continue to purchase what they wanted... ie... physical media with games on them. In this case almost everything coming out is a download and that's it. You may like the color blue, I might not.... I don't chastise you for liking it so why would you chastise me for not liking it. I personally am a collector who loves not only playing games but collecting them as well. That's where I want to spend my money, and the fact that switch 2 barely has any games that are sold on cartridge really sucks. And I do believe it should be my choice if I wanted to collect empty pieces of plastic or not. It's basically the thing that has gotten me out of game collecting for roughly 5 decades. I think that's something worth complaining about, especially when Nintendo pushed GKC's as simply an option, now they are basically the rule.

Sounds like someone has a DLC pack in mind for the future.

Super Ghost N Goblins, one of my top three games of all time... you can never go wrong with this franchise. Should probably also point out that there is a Capcom retro collection on Humble Bundle right now that offers this and many many other Capcom games for a really nice price.

Can't wait, so far I've got the first 6 with 7&8 on pre-order..... Love these NeoGeo Comps.

I smell an Emmy...

@HalBailman
"Who is whinging about key cards and still buying":
Books - Buy them all the time
CDs - No but I do buy records
PC boxed games - Gave up the PC a long time ago, one of the reasons being I love collecting physical games
video discs - I would buy them, but modern movies kinda suck. When a good one does come out I track down the 4K disc though.

Just wanted to give you an honest response. I also buy a ***** ton of board games because I like the physical medium it brings with it. Some people, probably on the older side of gaming, love physical media for many reasons.