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Of course porting goes unexpectedly smooth when you skip optimization. What an insult to the fanbase. I'll probably buy it later if they really do fix the performance but they don't need my day 1 money for slop.

Physical games on Nintendo Switch hardware mattered to me because I always looked towards my handhelds to hold me out during summer storm power outages. There's something magical about being able to just pick any game off the shelf, especially ones I haven't thought about or touched in a while. The NS2 creates a problem of requiring the GKC to be downloaded ahead of time and installed for it to be considered being playable during these times. For a majority of consumers, I understand this is probably not a big deal... but I own over 200 physical NS1 titles. Can't see this happening with NS2. At some point, the draw of paying a premium to buy games on a portable device that sacrifices performance gets outweighed by better value proposition elsewhere.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah, Honkai comes on a physical disk.

@UltimateOtaku91 85% games not requiring downloads is an overwhelming majority. The 15% that do require downloads consist of many of live service / multiplayer games where it's quite understandable to require downloads. I was surprised to see a release for Honkai Star Rail like... why did this need to be a physical lol

@SillyG My guess is that NS1 games are so easily pirated now, they're a bit hesitant about that route of providing it all on the NS1 ver. But we're seeing mixed signals from companies... like square enix wasn't offering an upgrade path for Dragon Quest 1-2 HD-2D remake, but they're offering it for free for FFTactics. What gives?!

@Kneppy18 the issue here is game key cards have not been replacing code in the box. They're replacing real physicals. You cite benefits that are common with real physical copies. The other issue here specifically with NIS titles for ns2 is despite opting for the "cheaper" option, they also went and marked it up to be more expensive. So it cost them less to make, and they want us to pay more to receive less. In what world should we accept moving forward with getting less for our money and be happy with it?

They really think that asking for an extra $10 for a game key card is the best option for the customer?

@SpacedDuck That's all subjective but I think far from it. i looked up every launch list and the last time I enjoyed a console launch was Gameboy Advance LOL. Let's not forget the 3DS launch was so bad that they apologized for it. There were no games on any Playstation launch i could think of that I cared to play... unless we count launch WINDOW games, I do remember Gravity Rush on the PS Vita being fun and innovative.

The Switch 2 seems well-postured with this launch. I think it reaches out to all the people who stayed away from the Switch 1 with better performance, and even invites them to try the Zelda titles with upgrades. I have Switch 1 backlogs that I hope will perform better on the device, but out of the launch titles, one or two games for me is enough to hold me out for what's coming shortly after.

The biggest problem I'm seeing is that this is likely the last and final console we'll see (out of all three big players) to ever feature meaningful physical copies of video games, what with the introduction of game-key carts being a catalyst of its death.

@Friendly imma suggest... The choice is avoid game key. Supporting that crap just makes it more frequent in the future.

I don't think mouse support is the reason why it can't have an upgrade path. Isn't metroid prime 4 going to have an upgrade path, yet it has mouse support mode?

Either way, I'm torn between switch 1 copy and pc. The performance of the last two on switch 1 was jarring. Game-key carts are a no-go for me.

This is what I needed. Hated the psp version - no idea why they downgraded character portrait arts. Rena became an 8 year old. This looks better and I'm definitely playing it.

Thought new president was good news, but boy was I mistaken. I guess they put too much money in to back out now... sunk cost fallacy will be their greatest pitfall of this company. Not too late to turn around, but it sure looks like they are begging for the guillotine.

Fortunately, I've never had any joycon drift. This was a problem that I had on my original psp-1000, which was a lot scarier to attempt a fix since they're not detachable. One of the reasons I felt like I could never recommend a switch lite.

@imgrowinglegs would love danganronpa on switch but I already own it on steam. At least I can use steam link to remote play it on my tablet though.

@Miu I just finished your route last night!