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@IronMan30 They take the cheap way out, not only that but Square Enix and Sega had been losing money as of late cause they are either making too many bad decisions or they are too careful with their IP offerings. Square Enix is still trying to get out of a financial slob after the failure of Final Fantasy XVI, Forspoken, Valkyrie Elysium, Star Ocean: Divine Force, Visions of Mana, Balan Wonderworld, Foamstars, embracing mobile games and NFTs, from making too many failed live service games like Babylon's Fall, Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Avengers. Right now Square Enix only had three successful IPs and none of them are Final Fantasy: SaGa, Dragon Quest, and Octopath Traveler.

Sega on the otherhand did a lot better but my guess as to why they don't embracing physical on their own was cause they fear most of their obscure IP may not sell will on Switch or Switch 2. So games like Yakuza, Persona, Panzer Dragoon, House of the Dead, and Streets of Rage are handle by third party or through third party physical publishers whereas more popular IPs like Sonic, Super Monkey Ball and Puyo Puyo are handle by them cause they look at those as more successful on Nintendo platforms. Also since Bayonetta is still cover by Nintendo, Sega doesn't had to do much in terms of physical on that franchise as Nintendo covers most of the development cost.

@ThaBEN They still got three more games to announce, if they include MK Gold then the latest would be 1999.

@IronMan30 Cause they are part of a much bigger company. Digital Eclipse is part of Atari and this Atari has been doing great things as of late.

Way better than that awful Street Fighter 6 game that was both a game key card and a code in a box. Thank you Digital Eclipse for keeping physical games truly physical on the cartridge.

Considering how dead the game was on other platforms, it's about freaking time they finally bring it to Switch. Since I won't be playing this game online anyways I'm just glad it made a splash for Switch instead of getting stuck with those game key card nonsense.

Best news ever, I don't remember the last time I play a Battlefield game. I'm surprise it still exist at all.

One reason why I stopped supporting Square Enix this gen.

I already got this game on Switch so that's enough for me. This like a lot of the past Persona games aren't worth my time to return to once I completed them. I only return to the main Shin Megami Tensei games, I don't ever want to return to the Persona games.

Sega needs to bundle part 0 & 1 with this one cause ain't no way I'm buying this if it's on game key card. You want me to buy the game Sega you do the right thing, put these games on the cartridge. Can't do it then have your pals at Limited Run Games do it for you.

What's wrong with calling it Octopath Traveler III? Calling this Octopath Traveler 0 just made it sound like a prequel which Champion of the Continent mobile game already was.

I'm glad we got four HD-2D RPGs coming, I'm just disappointed that one of them wasn't Chrono Trigger.

A partner showcase for Nintendo consoles are going to be even less exciting going forward now cause a majority of titles are either going to be digital download only or Game Key Card release only. I don't see a future where third party titles for Nintendo consoles would get that exciting factors anymore and it's all Nintendo's own fault. Anyways this will be the first time I won't be watching this kind of direct anymore.

Atari is what big publisher should be doing when acquiring studios, not the same mass studio acquistion that Microsoft and Embracer are doing. They don't just throw money at studios to get rights to game nonstop and then fired people if the game failed to sell or if they game is successful. Microsoft and Embracer should had never gotten into the gaming business since both don't know how to run game offerings or embrace the studios they bought. Doingwhat Atari is doing by slowly building their company back to square one and acquiring studios that will benefit them is a great start to them becoming relevant again.

@PhilW Just use the Super NES controller, the buttons are the same just in different location. Sega is known for making awful controllers. In hindsight just get those 2.4Ghz wireless Genesis or Saturn 8-12 buttons controller from Retro-Bit or 8BitDo instead.

A game that look worst than Ninja Five-0 but can't even maintain 30fps when Ninja Five-0 could? This must be the epitome of lazy. Ninja Five-0 isn't even a Switch game. Heck even Shredder's Revenge ran better, what happen DOTEMU? Did greed and lazy took over for y'all.

If that's true then now is the time they should start revealing the four hidden games that they hinted during the Sony State of Play trailer. My guess is that it's just these four games (MK Gold, Mythologies Sub-Zero, Special Forces, and Shaolin Monks) but some confirmation during their short rampage world tour would be nice. They already did Comic-con so next is EVO, then Gamescom, and ending at PAX West.

Meh it plays just like any other 3D platformers so not a huge loss. It not being release on Switch just means it won't be purchase by the millions of Switch and Switch 2 owners out there.

Since Namco is going to port more PlayStation first party games to other platforms anyways it make sense for Sony to get 2.5% of Namco's team.

Xbox will reportedly announce more game ports for other platforms soon.

Please do so we can finally lay the Xbox to rest once and for all.

Not surprising as this game (and Monster Hunter Wilds) was terrible even on PS5 and PC. I'm surprised EA even bother to bring this to Switch 2 as what's worst on other platforms is now even more broken on Switch 2.

Like the previous entry I'll just get it on Steam and Switch 1. No way am I touching any third party stuffs on Switch 2 unless they follow the same path as Sonic CrossWorlds, Marvelous, and CD Projekt Red.

Just imagine if Nintendo never invented game key cards, there would had been way more Switch 2 games up there on the sales chart than Switch 1 titles.

Imagine updating a fake game to be even more fake.

Good job on letting us know to not buy your fake game.

Like always it's just a bunch of nothing when it comes to this franchise. Other then the garbage stuffs, there's really nothing new here.

Since Xbox is not making hardware anymore it would make sense to skipped that entirely. After all even if the ROG Xbox Ally is out, people would still be able to get the game anyways since it's basically a waterdown Windows PC.

When Wario Land is the only good game they had for it, it's no wonder the Virtual Boy failed. Also odd that this is the first Nintendo system to not had a mainline Super Mario and Legend of Zelda game on it. Usually with Nintendo's console, having games from those two series is a must but with Virtual Boy it seem like it's the only exception. The second Nintendo system to not have a mainline Super Mario and Zelda game is the Pokémon Mini handheld.

I'm not too familiar with her work but I did realize she voice Trish in Triangle Strategy so that's cool.

This collection has been fantastic with every DLC pack. Hopefully they physical release an Ultimate Edition like they do the Expanded Edition.

It looks like Liu Kang and Cole Young are reduce to just background characters here while Johnny Cage and Kitana gets all the screen time now. Also what is that lady from Intergalatic doing in our MK movie? She looks nothing like Jade, in fact she literally looks the same as how she was in Intergalatic with the same bald head and everything.

At the very least wear a wig, masked up, change hairdo, or something so we could see her as Jade. Karl Urban is in this movie but you don't see him looking like Eomer from the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, you see him looking like Johnny Cage. Same for Hiroyuki Sanada, he's in this movie but you don't see him looking like Genbu from Ninja in the Dragon's Den, you see him looking like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

Looks interesting, may check it out. Hopefully an actual Game Boy version of this exist at some point.

Another great buy for me along with Cyberpunk 2077 and Rune Factory. I'll definitely skipped the Switch 1 version for this one now.

One reason why I don't embrace digital release as much. Still the game looks and plays terrible anyways so nothing of value was lost.

@Wisps If you play Switch 1 games on Switch 2, for those games that don't have Switch 2 upgrade or can't be upgraded, they would at least still get a few minor enhancements from the Switch 2 emulator if supported. Enhancement includes better framerates at stable or target 60fps, faster loading, and upscale images to 4K instead of native 4K. This is similar but not the same as an upgraded Switch 1 port for Switch 2 which got native 4K support, optimized stable 60fps, fast to no load times, new qol features that weren't in the Switch 1 version, and more extra contents. If the game is not supported by the Switch 2 emulator then the game will just glitch or bug out or won't even load similar to how a typical game rom wouldn't run on a normal emulator. Remember Switch 1 backwards compatiblity on Switch 2 is done through emulation, not natively like what Sega Master System was to Sega Genesis or Game Boy/GBC was to GBA or PS1 was to PS2 or GameCube was to the Wii or Wii was to Wii U so not every game will work accurately on the thing.

For a company that had a troubling money problem, you think they would at least try to get easy money with this but nope this is one of those opportunity for them to get easy money and they stupidly refuse to do so.

Customers: Oh Square Enix you want money, how bout we pay you $10 to get our Switch 1 games upgraded to the Switch 2 versions?
Square Enix: Hell no.
Also Square Enix: Oh wait we're low on money, well time for another layoff.

At this point I don't even know who are the d-bag that run this dummy company anymore. You cannot tell me that a company with hundreds of popular IPs with many opportunity to get easy money had struggle this much to make a profit unless they purposely refuse to do so and by what this article is pointing out it looks like that is the case. People aren't going to feel sorry for you Square Enix if you continue to purposely make bad decisions one after another.

At the very least put these games back on the eShop so people could actually buy em.

My few Japanese friends (who live in the USA and Canada btw) say they don't like game key cards either. When the Switch 2 launch, there's only two games they bought: Mario Kart World and either Cyberpunk 2077 or Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma.

RIP Cathcart. All your work are a part of my childhood that will stay with me forever.

@B_Lindz I don't think it's just Nintendo, it looks like Sony is doing the round too. A few of those websites host PS4 iso as well such as ps4pkg.com and ps4pkg.net.

I hope they had a downloadable upgrade for those of us on Switch 2 who already bought the original on Switch 1.

How many Atelier games are there? These games just kept coming one after another (each carrying a female name) even more so than the Trails, SaGa, Shantae, Puyo Puyo, Wonder Boy, and Cotton games. This is like the Call of Duty of anime RPGs for Switch.

Buying a used game is like buying a used car now if you are a Switch or Switch 2 owners. Since there are flash cartridge for the system now, it seems that most people aren't follow the rules and now both are punish, the ones who break the rule and the ones who got caught in the situation. Like buying a used car, if you bought a used car that was previously reported as stolen or used in a robbery, it's likely you will be punish for having that car but if you had proof that you had no knowledge of the car being stolen or used in illegal activities then you will be forgiven. Of course that also means you will lose your money as well and had to fight to get that back.

Here are my few tips for buying used Switch games that won't get your primary console banned or brick:

1. Buy your games from a reliable source such as a yard sale, a close friend, or a second hand videogame store that usually test used games before they sell them such as Kelsey Luwin's Pink Gorilla Game stores in either Seattle or Las Vegas.

2. Avoid AliExpress, Amazon Sellers, eBay Sellers, Facebook Marketplace, and Craigslists, those are red flags territory and their games are likely bootleg copies or legit copies that got bootleg already.

3. Have a secondary Switch console at hands, whenever you bought a used games, test it on that first. If it got banned or brick then report that customer and game to Nintendo. I mostly use my $150 Switch Lite as a secondary system to test used games before I play them on my primary Switch OLED console.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Nah it's just that Xbox doesn't had a good track record of success there. There was that one time where the Japanese audience were about to take the Xbox 360 seriously thanks to the many Japanese oriented titles being released for it such as Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Final Fantasy XIII, and Dead or Alive 4 but then Microsoft introduced Xbox Kinect, hardly work with Mistwalker anymore, and lose exclusivity to the DOA franchise. When taken all that into account, the Japanese audience just don't see any reason to stick with Xbox any longer.

The Japanese audience are attracted to cute and playful contents as well as lively action and adventure titles and RPGs with an anime style story that twist and turns and the Xbox brand just doesn't had many of that. Also even if they do, if the same contents are available on Nintendo and PlayStation, it's likely they rather stick to those two platforms instead due to the ease of access and familiar cultural offerings within those. It's kinda like this, if I'm Japanese and I go to eat out at a restaurant and there's a sushi plate, a tempura plate, a ramen soup, a cheeseburger, a burrito, a pizza, and a sirloin steak on the menu, chances are I'm likely gonna order the sushi plate, the tempura plate or the ramen soup over all the rest.

I'm glad that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still hanging up there in the top 5 despite its younger sister Mario Kart World holding the crown for the time being.

Everything good about the Switch 1 will be gone soon, this and the gold coins are just the latest features Nintendo are getting rid of so to get more people to jump ship to the Titanic that was the Switch 2 which at this point had not made a good impression on me just yet.

Game should always be a product, never a service. When you buy a game, you should get everything that came with it (box, manual, cartridge, contents, etc.) and shouldn't be charge for anything else. Anything outside of the game that are extra that could be added may be charge but those extra must not hamper the game in any way that makes the game feel incomplete so for example if they add Crash Bandicoot to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2, then that means Crash is just an extra addition to the game and not part of the base Nintendo roster.

The fact that this had both the Switch 1 & 2 version on the cartridge is just fantastic. Even though I had not gotten the Switch 2 yet, I love that I could still enjoy the Switch 1 version through this and then continue from there with the Switch 2 next time.

Fantastic, way better than the first one. I'm glad the Switch never got that one.

They need to make a game like Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Nintendo DS where it had both an online and offline play mode so when the online play is no longer supported, the offline play is still there. I don't think there was any game like that at the time and I hate how more and more games are not like that today, most are either online only, offline only or cloud only which I hate the most. I think the only game that is like that today is the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 for Switch as I can still play all my games on there in an offline capacity even during a black out.