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@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.

@KITG_GROUP Also, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade runs very smooth on handheld mode.

@Divide_and_Wander It's not like Sakurai is involved in MP4, as in, working more on Riders wouldn't push MP4 back.

Also, there's still that Hyrule Warriors game that Nintendo sees as a big game. It's still coming out this year, per their last trailer some weeks ago.

@YunoboCo I can confirm the eShop listings of the game in several countries (and probably all) say this:

Same console (1-4)
Local Multiplayer (2-8)
Online Multiplayer (1-16)

@ear_wig While not perfect, it runs very well already on Switch 2 without a patch.

@Max_the_German Welp. At least they leveled up from PS2 graphics now.

I remember when people used to praise PS3 graphics.

@Ooccoo_Jr Yes, you just need to change region to redeem it, to Japan, then get back.

@Ooccoo_Jr It's the equivalent of £9 if you buy the eShop code for the Kirby update in Amazon.jp.

@Elock While developed by Bandai, people shouldn't forget Hyrule Warriors. It's still a Nintendo game.

@N00BiSH I know it's not about me, I'm just voicing my opinion on the matter, what this section is for.

They charging a lot of money for limited physical editions, we shouldn't really care. These games are more like collectibles basically, so 60 to 80 bucks sound alright. It's just like all those reddit people whining about the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World prices.

That doesn't make Nintendo a bad company, just a greedy company, which is okay in my book since companies need to be greedy. The same for Wayforward here.

@N00BiSH So some fans of niche games are getting affected. I mean, I feel bad for them, but since I don't care about physical stuff, I don't care about all that drama.

Have they mistreated their staff (employees) or something?

@ROMhaiku That would be like skipping the game. Why play it at that point?

They didn't do this for when Latam Spanish Jessie's VA passed away.

@Kang81 Isn't Street Fighter 6 an AAA game? Why does it run at 60fps?

@Flapflop So, for playing both Mario Kart World and DK Bananza is $1,160 total?

That's expensive. No reason it's flopping.

The free update is great!

So 8bitdo controllers aren't supported?

Wow. Need to find those QR codes.

I don't get it. Version 1.1.1 was released at launch you say, but now it's being launched again? Same version 1.1.1?

I don't think that's how software versioning works.

@Otoemetry It was the digital version. As in I got the game on the eShop.

Save data was in the SD card, but encrypted couldn't be copied to another 3DS even after I recovered my digital games. Nintendo support couldn't give me a solution for this. My save data was simply gone. I still got like 40 mons in Pokémon Bank that I transferred then to Home. But my most important ones were gone, since they were in the save of the game when it broke.

Sending it to them, they would be able to restore the hardware, but they always formatted (probably changed motherboard in most cases, whatever), or so they told me, which would make the save data not compatible with the 3DS anymore anyway.

I was able to recover my bought digital games later, but of course there was no "Cloud Save" thing back then.

Anyway, there's still not cloud save for Pokemon nowadays outside of Home.

@Polvasti They probably downloaded most of them into the Switch game. You can't have them repeated both in Home and in a game.

@AstroTheGamosian The Pokémon Company wants people to feel each game as their own adventure. That's the only reason it's always been one save per game, or user nowadays.

Also, they wanted a pair of siblings to buy 2 cartridges and not only one back since the originals.

I stopped playing Pokémon back in the 3DS Pokémon Omega Ruby.

Played the heck out of it when it launched. But then, I had an accident and my 3DS broke.

I didn't feel the need to transfer all my mons into Pokémon Bank back then, because I was still actively playing the game when the 3DS broke.

I got 1 or 2 boxes in Pokémon Bank saved up prior. But that was just 10% of all my mons tranferred all the way back since Leaf Green.

It felt like a loss. A real loss. Couldn't ever get over the fact my Leaf Green Blastoise back from 2004 when I was only 10 years old was gone.

I still mourn him. It's not a joke.

Sorry. I need to wipe my tears.

I haven't gotten tired of Voice notes. It's in Latam Spanish for me, but anyway.

Weird to score a game negatively based on something that, you guess it, is optional and not in the game.

@HexagonSun It's still possible the game doesn't come in the cartridge in Switch 1. People can always cheap out in cartridges and put the rest of the game as a mandatory update.

@Runex2121 That's the MSRP in my country.

I'm already paying USD$750 for the console.

What's USD$100 more?

"pulls data from an indeterminate number of sources"

Erm. No. Generative AI doesn't work like that. The way it learns could be compared to the way a human learns. It doesn't copy and paste parts of artworks for creating something new. It "learns" patterns with millions of (yeah, stolen artwork in most cases) examples of desired output of data as pictures.

We could argue about the ethics, which I'm usually against in most scenarios.

@johnedwin you can decide that here. It's just player preferences.