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Then have a partial installation to onboard storage for the required audio files. .

Problem solved, whole game is still on the card.

This excuse is a joke, if it’s even true.

Oh no, a game is released for a reasonable price.

Whatever will we do, they’ve destroyed the entire industry landscape.

…if the industry landscape is destroyed by an amazing $20 game, then maybe the landscape deserved to be destroyed.

@arkanjo29 And yet other games are getting fixed purely by Nintendo system updates.

It’s almost like it could be Squeenix’s issue OR it could be Nintendo’s. Or both.

@Sylamp Apparently it isn’t even visible on PSN currently! https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/09/hollow-knight-silksong-release-crashes-storefronts-not-on-ps-store-at-launch

@MonsterMike I’ll complain about key card releases every time! Especially when a company like Ubisoft should be able to stuff this game on a card with no issue.

Of course, Ubisoft isn’t doing great financially these days…

@Runex2121 @Dr_Awkward Just because you don't understand/agree with the “whining” you expect us to not complain about them?

Good luck with that! In the meantime, I’ll keep not buying them and give the exact reason why.

As someone who owns the Series X version, wait for a sale. This is not worth full launch price. I got it for about $25 and felt I got my money’s worth. Wouldn’t have felt that way if I paid $60 or $70.

Solid port of a mostly mediocre SW game.

I wish I could buy the actual game on card for Switch 2. Guess this will be a PS purchase yet again.

I so want to support S2 games but I will never buy these game key cards. I hope Nintendo works this out with publishers.

@itsapossum I love how you’re assuming there’s no under the hood stuff happening for Switch 1 consoles with these updates, that they’re somehow forcing all S1 users to do so as well out of sheer amusement.

As someone who has played it on Series X…it’s okay as a game. It’s impressive that they’ve managed to squeeze it onto the Switch 2 for sure.

Not my cup of tea, but worth getting on sale. Not full price. Remember, Ubsioft games PLUMMET after a few months, and Outlaws on every other platform was no exception.

@DM7Dust The number of games with issues is rather small. It just sucks that I own one of them and want to own another one.

Thankfully I have my PS5 and Series X so it’s not a MASSIVE issue but others are definitely impacted more than I am. And I love my Switch 2!

@DM7Dust From what I understand there are crashes that keep you from progressing far into the game.

@tonyp1987 I have the card as well, would love to play it again on Switch (platinumed the PS version) but I don’t want to pull out the Switch 1 to do it!

sighs at lack of NiER Automata being fixed

Just please, please fix NiER Automata in one of these updates, please.

Wow, Ubisoft bungling a port of a mediocre game. Whodathunkit?

At least it’s a game key card, right?

If it weren’t robots with legs in wheelchairs playing basketball with bad controls in boring arenas, it might have had a chance.

At least ARMS was fun.

I look forward to buying this on PS5, where the actual game will be on the actual disc unlike the Switch 2 version.

@Orwellian87 Your post tells me that you don’t understand the difference in power between the Switch 2, PS4 and PS5.

@CalibanKenobi Excellent! I’m sorry you got a faulty unit but at least you know you’re getting a replacement that works!

@Polvasti Did the same thing, picked up a copy off Woot and other than booting it up to make sure the card worked, I haven’t touched it.

Looking forward to the upgrade when it goes live!

@Saints Of course nothing lasts forever. But we can do our best to make sure things aren’t lost for as long as we possibly can, whatever form those things end up taking in the long run. We are at a place in time where there is NO excuse for anything to be lost barring total apocalypse.

Except for Game key cards. Those suck. I think we can all agree on that!

@Saints I’ve moved to digital for music, though I still buy the occasional CD for actual ownership purposes.

As far as movies and tv shows, I have thousands of Blu-rays and DVDs. I’m a physical media kind of guy, and it encompasses an entire wall of my living room.

Gosh, I hope they can somehow squeeze in more stuff after six years of waiting. What a time crunch!

I hated the controls until I switched the buttons around. Just felt wrong.

Thank goodness they left us the option.

Came out for PS5 earlier, definitely going to try both versions and compare how well it looks on both!

@johnedwin We might be pleasantly surprised! Either way, I’m definitely interested to see how this goes.

@electrolite77 Performance will definitely be the determining factor. It ran beautifully on Series X and I understand it was also 60fps on Series S. 60 on PS5 as well.

I’d love it if they can work some magic and get it at 60 with VERY few compromises on S2.

@Wewewi Doom Eternal exists for Switch 1, and still played and sold well. And that sucker was reduced in res far more than THIS likely will be.

It’s genuinely a good game. If the Series S version wasn’t horrible (and it wasn’t) then this won’t be either.

@Jamie64326 …agree to disagree on that. I’ve held my nose and given them money under protest before.

@Jamie64326 My interest waned the moment I saw LRG involvement, but I hope for an actual general physical release even so.

I think we all know this will be a game key card, assuming it even gets a physical edition.

That said, I enjoyed this on Series X. Hope it runs well on the S2!

Well, at least we can be somewhat sure the full game will be on the card since it’s a Switch 1 release. That’s a good thing!

@MegaChem Anecdotally, I bought it based on seeing some of the gameplay and because it was a fully physical Switch 2 game.

So they made at least one sale based on me buying it. I wouldn’t have bought it at release (or at all, physically) if it was a game key card.

@Ravenmaster Nintendo themselves have said that the dock fans are ONLY for cooling the dock. The console takes care of its own cooling. They even cover this in the Welcome Tour (which I watched on YouTube instead of buying, of course.)

Its to reduce the heat the dock itself generates.

FYI, for your blurb about the Nintendo made dock: the fan in the S2 dock is to keep the DOCK itself cool. It doesn’t cool down the S2, its own cooling system does that.

Robots in wheelchairs playing basketball was an intensely dumb idea. Especially when the robots all have legs and weren’t integrated into the chairs as part of the design.

After playing the jam this weekend, this remains my opinion and the horrible controls did nothing to change my mind. They were clunky and uninspiring even as a tech demo.

This is $20 I’ll put towards my Kirby S2 upgrade instead.

At least it didn’t come as a complete shock. They saw it coming.

Picked the game up on Woot for about $20 less than retail, and holding onto it till the upgrade releases. First time playing it. Fired it up to check out the tutorial stage and to see how it runs, so I can compare after upgrade.

@Spider-Kev Ah, gotcha. Glad I haven’t snagged D2 for Switch then! And I didn’t even notice that I wasn’t online with D3, I’ll have to check that tonight. Thanks!

@Spider-Kev Diablo 2 and 3 are broken on Switch 2? What happens? I could have sworn I played some D3 on S2 and didn’t have any issues.

Sure would be nice if Nintendo would bother updating the compatability lists on their own website.

@Teksette Funny, the same thing happens with physical games, too…

@mattitudemf Techbically very few really REQUIRE it. If I had an offline PS5, 99% of the disc games out there would play just fine. There might be bugs but they’d play.

The only exceptions are recent MS-published and Ubisoft games, and of course games that require you to be online.

Obviously this is a distinction that doesn’t make us disagree on the common point of “dear god, just put the game on the freaking disc/card!”

@KayFiOS They won’t. They won’t do anything to make people less interested in these games during the presentation. Gotta do the legwork ourselves!

@Suketoudara Ahh. That makes sense. Love those regional differences!

@ShieldHero This is the way.

Persona 5 Royal is ALL on the cart and has no patches currently. I can attest to that at least.

@kmtrain83 I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

@PikminMarioKirby I have bad news for you, at least for the Switch 2 version…

@mattitudemf People keep using that excuse to justify stuff like this. Not every game has a day 1 patch. Not every game is unplayable without an update.

I miss the days when a game actually ships COMPLETED.

The game keys are especially egregious since space is far more limited on the S2. On a PS5 or Series S/X you can always offload a game to an external hard drive or something.

@ShieldHero It is a key card, at least according to the Japanese Atlus site.

@MeerkatSimples Seems like everyone is doubling down on them.

This is just making me buy the PS version of all these released games. At least the actual game is (usually)on the disc and it isn’t a glorified download voucher.