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They should just make a classic Guitar Hero game for Switch and call it a day.

@tonyp1987 To be fair, 19, soon to be 20 years of redownloads for Wii games has been good enough for me, even if they stopped redownloads working tomorrow.

They'll sure follow the same with Switch and Switch 2 games redownloads (including Game Key Cards), so I see no issue.

I don't see Game Key Cards stopping being redownloadable in less than 30 years, unless Nintendo goes bankrupt or some apocalyptic event occurs.

@PharoneTheGnome So render the card unusable after that?

Or allow lots of people installing the same game from a single card?

@tonyp1987 What the other user said.

You can still redownload previously bought games officially from their digital fronts on all of those: Wii, DSi, Wii U and 3DS. The only thing is you can't buy new games.

Of course, you need to have access to the console from where you got them. Or have Nintendo help you transfer your accounts/licenses to another new console.

For anyone on the fence wanting to get it for playing in LATAM Spanish, it's still there. (There wasn't any LA Spanish trailer for the game anywhere, I was worried it was removed after being in AoC).

@sportymariosonicmixx Wow, a reply to my 10 year old comment.

Back on topic, you're right, it makes sense, I never had anyone to play with back then.

I held off from buying the OG Switch version for this, so this is cool.

@Kingy Uh, finally. It was a mess having to buy $120 Pokemon games back in the GBA and NDS times.

Why? 2 $40 games and then a third improved $40 game some months later.

@NintendoPete Thanks for your answer.

I already got my copy and it's indeed in Latin American Spanish both text and voices.

Very weird it didn't get trailers in that language like AoC did.

@1UP-HUSKY Different app purposes.

But they'll surely add some button for opening the store link from the Today app.

@PJOReilly Do you know if it happens to come with Latinoamerican Spanish language option?

Age of Calamity had that language, text and voices, for both American and European release. I hope it's the same now.

I'm worried because AoC had several trailers of the language, but Age of Imprisonment hasn't had any. Only European Spanish trailers so far.

Thanks.

@Erigen Even if most Switch 2 adopters are also OG Switch users, it doesn't mean all of them already played Animal Crossing.

I, for one, want to play it for the first time now only because of the Zelda content that will be added.

@Divide_and_Wander Nintendo must always be hiding things, they usually announce games within 6 months of release.

@EarthboundBenjy Zelda BOTW DLC was also announced before release (and it was also purchasable before release).

I mean, that's not something new Pokemon did.

People were saying the game looked so small after the first Direct.

I always said they weren't showing everything. Got lots of downvotes. Lol.

I will still say it again. Even after this second Direct, they are still not showing everything.

@MoldyPasta It got a 7 in Switch 2.

I'm impressed they didn't give it a 5 or 4 on OG Switch given that.

@adamatsu The 7 is literally a "Good" in Nintendo Life. It even says so below the 7 in this review.

@MatoFilipovic I mean, there are PS5 games with hiccups. That already falls in the developer's side, not the console.

@PinderSchloss Bold to compare Grave of the Fireflies with the Mario Galaxy Movie.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Tracks_(enemy)

@Kwyjibo_Kitsune It would be weird having an amiibo for something that doesn't appear that much in a game.

@NintendoWife I enjoyed it completely by myself. It's good also for one player.

I don't know how you could stand the 15-ish fps from playing on split screen.

@HingryHuppo It's easy to call Nintendo support and they help you moving your account. 3DS and Wii U accounts are easy to change. Even if you aren't from a place with actual support. I'm from Mexico, and since consoles before Switch were mostly brought intro the country from USA, and Mexico shared region with them, Nintendo of America support still helped me several times.

Wii and DSi a bit harder, given there didn't exist "accounts" per se, but they still offer support for that given you have your consoles' serial codes.

I mean "redownload" actually implies you purchased the game before shops closure. So, yeah, you can't buy new games.

@HistoricKombat Well, yes, but they are still here.

Nearly 20 years since Wii release. I'm not worried, because with that background, Switch 2 Game Key Cards and digital games with still be redownloadable in 20-30 years from now at least.

Only thing that would prevent that would be Nintendo's backruptcy or apocalyptic event.

@jojobar DSi ware games can also still be re-downloaded. So. What are you trying to say?

@HugoGED That's like saying "planes could crash anytime, so it's not reliable to travel in one". Yeah, it could and will fail, but people still uses planes.

@Nintendomatt64 "physical is a heck of a lot better than physical". What?

@breach187 This is because of how consoles have developed over time. Need architecture updates that made previous games hard to make keep working.

If PCs had gone some big architectural changes in the 2010s, most games would be unplayable. But that didn't happen, and that's the reason it is like it is.

Nintendo has always implemented Backwards Compatibility when possible, ever since the SNES.

It's usually big changes in their consoles that made backwards compatibility hard to make, like Wii U to Switch.

@Kingy I can still redownload games from all those stores. They haven't removed that.

I still boot up my Wii for some WiiWare from time to time, and can redownload anything I had already purchased before the shop closed. Same for 3DS, Wii U and DSi.

@Nintendomatt64 Nothing lasts forever. A Switch or Switch 2 cartridge will fail after 15-20 years of moderate use given the way their flash chips work.

@HingryHuppo All of those shops that closed down still let you redownload games you bought before the closure.

Yeah, legally, officially, from the eShop/Wii shop/DSi shop, whatever they are named.

@RiasGremory Kirby amiibos from recent direct are $50 each.

@Nintendomatt64 and you can still redownload those games if you bought it before being removed from being sold.

@Kochambra Some Switch cards are already failing on their users. That's 7 years of use.

On moderate usage, Switch 2 physical game cards could last from 10 to 20 years considering how flash drives work when read from a lot. They stop being read or read slowly after some time of use.

Game Key Cards don't have that problem, given the read is limited to the DRM thing when starting the game.

They will last a lot more than a standard game card (with actual data inside), unless broken of course.

I wonder if they'll be available in languages other than English and Japanese.

I want it in LATAM Spanish.

Where are the users who commented how this wasn't coming to Switch 2, because it would have been announced along with the other platforms?

@itsapossum Not everyone is on Twitter, or any Twitter clone.

@Dee123 Yeah. You're right. "Might" means "could or could not", so you're right. I could or could not steal puppies and kittens from children.

It's not a fully affirmative sentence. It's just an expression of uncertainty about that things could still be like they were or they could not.

@Dee123 That's the thing, "might" means "could have or could have not". No evidence needed.

@Fizza that was in part due to COVID.

@WhiteUmbrella Don't be so rude, please.

You're right. What else do you want to hear?

But I can get another Wii U and ask Nintendo for tranferring my account. It's not so hard.

But okay, you're right, I'm wrong. I need to get back to elementary school.

Have a nice day.

@WhiteUmbrella What?

I still have my Wii U and I can, legally, redownload the games I bought back in the day from the eShop. Sure, I can't buy new games, but I can redownload what I had.

Why would I need to buy them again?

@1UP-HUSKY They are saving it up for the next Direct surely.

I mean. Even if bad ports as things are looking up, they didn't announce Dragon Ball Sparking Zero back on the Switch release, but it was announced in the July 31 partners direct, and it's releasing on November this year.

Not every game developer has to announce things years before release.

@the_beaver They should have delayed the console until December and release with 5+ first party games.

/s

@AussieMcBucket You don't even need to create a secondary account. Just change country of your current account, then get back to your original country after using the vouchers.

@Bowsers-Inside-Story It's hard to buy directly from Japanese Nintendo eShop. It accepts some international cards from other countries, but not many.

It's easier to buy from Amazon Japan with international cards. It accepts most cards. You buy Nintendo eShop prepaid cards in Amazon Japan thanks to it being very easy to do (easier to get cards in Amazon than buying directly in the Japanese eShop).

You buy two 5000 yen cards or a 9000 and 1000 yen cards (in Amazon Japan), or whatever combo for getting 10000 yen in eShop credit. Then you redeem them in your Japanese Nintendo account and use 9800 of those for buying the vouchers in the Japanese Nintendo eShop.

And that's it.

@Freek I agreed with your joke. What are you talking about?

@AussieMcBucket Japanese eShop vouchers go for around USD$69 nowadays with the currency change value. You can buy eShop cards through Amazon Japan with most USA credit cards.

Most games the vouchers allow are the same titles globally, so they are the same as is if you buy them in USA or UK shops.

So, it's roughly USD$35 per game. That's a huge discount.

@Shmicko Reports say Switch 2 game cards are some kind of flash storage that could stop working after 20-30 years with moderate use.

Not sure about how trustable those reports are, but it sounds plausible given the read speeds they have (above 600MB/s), and how actual flash drives work.

So no, not "forever".

@Freek Yeah. You're right. Of course.