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@dskatter If all games that doesn't exceed 64gb would have come full on card I would have bought at least 10 games already... right now I have three...
On switch 1 I have about 300 physical games... I'm pretty sure on switch 2 it's going to be far far less

only if you don't care about game key cards... but if you have an issue with game key cards like me, than third party support is a nightmare... worse than on wii u...

not that I want it but I wonder what would happen if nintendo would make a new proper mario kart game, puts it on every system + smart phones and makes it free 2 play + fortnite like games as a service model.

I would hate it but I wonder how much money it would make...

This is actually a part of AI where I have less problems with. QA is extremely expensive and it doesn't need any creativity.
But I actually doubt that it works well. So far Ai is in almost all cases a disappointment.

Can't wait for the game... My most wanted game since quite a while

After the last trailer I'm very hyped

@JohnnyMind haha as long as they not going to buy that one porting studio that killed panzer dragoon, front mission and made a pretty mediocre DKC Returns port, everything is fine with me

I asume they just buy smaller studios like they did in the recent years.
Small studios are far more effecient

the first impressive Trailer of MP4.
hope they keep going .
Can't wait to play

i would trade in all those nice things for having the whole game on the card.
I really like to buy the game but I can't

as long as this happens, we won't see any great pokemon game again.

@Max_the_German
I experienced the opposite. Many people in my surroundings (most of them are game developers) who in the beginning where big fans of AI are now going to back to manual work.
When it comes to code, most of it is not usable and needs to be adjusted which most of the time takes more time than writing the code themselfs.
With image creation it's even worse...
So far for game development AI is not worth it.

Also the Chat GPT didn't get much better in the last two years... only details got better but it's still have the same fundamental issues and those come from how LLMs work.
If you read a bit about the topic you will see it won't get much better with the systems they currently use.

@electrolite77
But too much competition can be. Look at the indie space right now. Just too many good games and the amount of money that gets spend on indies is limited. Which means many great games won't make their cost back. Which also means developers will play save and that some games/genres won't be made anymore.

It's like watching a good movie to see how Microsoft is destroying Xbox systematically in the recent years... They earned so much good will from gamers after the first Xbox and the 360 but what they do now is just laughable...

I did a lot of analysis of heart gold and soul silver and it's not only the best pokemon game it's one of the best RPGs ever made thanks to it's brilliant progression layer design.

@Joeynator3000 thanks for letting us know, this makes the developers more likeable to me.

this is fantastic, the games biggest problem have been the controls with a gamepad

Its like a car accident where you cannot watch away...

full day one purchase, since it's on the card

underrated ost in my opinion

In my books it's even better than Chrono Trigger

haha they both look so cool but the US cover especially

@Dazman
It's 99,9 % not Pokopia.
Pokopia is from a totally different developer and has very different mechanics.
They won't reskin this game, it has already quite polished graphics and it would be a phenomenal waste of energy, time and money to hide a game that doesn't need to be hidden, with a different looking game just to test the online multiplayer.

I think the game has some major flaws that I don't know how nintendo will fix them.
when you build a structure, lets say a tower, it's possible that you, by accident, take out a core piece and the whole tower colapses.
This happens quite often actually.

I buy a lot of games but it slowed down this year a bit. this is mainly due to the high prices of switch 2 games and game key cards... especially the key carda ruined the hobby for me a little

there were never humans in any pikmin game and I think it will stay like this

ai is ruining the internet right now, I wish someone would do something about it. image search and all social media is full of slop...
at a certain point social media just dies because real creators just don't get enough visibility anymore

I played the game for some minutes and I totally get why nintendo didn't make a big thing out of it. It's just very bad and has everything why I hate mobile games...

I'm a huge fan of the original FF7 and I don't like the remake. I think as a game it is solid (not excellent) but it's just not a remake of Final Fantasy 7.
If they would have called it FF7 Reimagination or Reboot, it would make much more sense.
A real remake of the original is essentially dead now and has almost zero chance to ever come out.

It makes me sad but they lost me as a customer as long as Falcom stops that game key card madness...

@michellelynn0976 where do you know from that she has a bigger personality? we know nothing about her...

This is interesting but I don't think it will change anything.

that is actual surprising since the game doesn't look that great

it would be very very unexpected when resi 9 would come as a normal card

@progx Dsi ware is completely dead and cannot be re-downloaded (on the dsi not the 3ds)

this just proofs once again that we don't need more hardware power anymore.

@MSaturn you are right and I think that list of cons of AAA games is even longer.

@Yobreeze hmm weird I still play my old game boy games from the early 90s and they all work... even my old nes ducktales card still works... all my 20-30 snes games all work fine.
Sure I had to replace the battery of some of them but thats it.

@nintendo life please stop spreading that narrative that the switch 2 cartridges are too slow.
FF7 Remake, and yes even Rebirth, runs on a much much slower HDD on pc and the game works great.

Sure the cards are slower than internal storage but that is not a big issue.

I don't know what it is but somehow I can see when a game was made in china and something about their art or animation puts me off (not all of the chinese games but many).
And something about this games turns me off

they should have called it Octopath Traveler Recycled... it looks like all old assets

this is like the disney afternoon collection at home

it would be great if they would also showcase which ones are game key cards

@MrPerson0 tell that to the people who downloaded dsi ware games

@Jedrus_Lilac but there are solutions for this.
they could make slower more effortable cards that require you to install a part of the cards data to the system.

Thats how many pc games worked too back in the days.

Another solution is to make just slower cards for games that need not that much speed, like almost all indie games.

I think no one has a problem if a game is 80gb and comes on a key card.

sorry but this is BS... if nintendo wouldn't want to make more money why did they raise prices on almost everything?
Sure for the industry the key card sounds awesome but for the consumer it's just bad.
The big publishers who anyways already have the methods to squeeze out everything benefit the most of key cards...
those don't need help.

@Jhena so well said I agree with every thing.

I won't buy any of the copies in that case...
I bought almost every SE game that came out on the switch, but I can't support them anymore. I don't want to support key cards.

I think some of the games just haven't been on direct level.
Also Metroid got another trailer that was poorly edited...
It's just my personal taste but the upcoming games except of metroid do not appeal to me... some are ok, like fire emblem (which looks worse than engage but has the same poor character design) but there was too much switch 2 edition/port/another mario sports game stuff...
very uninspired.