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I'm still in disbelief that we're getting Air Riders. The fact that Sakurai and his team jammed so much content into it is so exciting

 

I know, I remember reading about it back then in magazines

 

I'm always surprised how much sakurai can accomplish just by himself. he went into detail the work he put into his YouTube series, and even that was mind-bending. the guy literally is on another level

 

M's fans catching strays everywhere I go

 

it should have been dodgers and mariners

 

I made an impulse buy

 

So DQ 1 + 2 HD remake is only a key card if you buy the Switch 2 version…

 

Higher resolution assets

 

Are you entitled to a switch 2 upgrade if you get the switch version?

 

Usually you have to pay around 10, sometimes less, but the Switch 2 version is usually more expensive so it usually doesn’t make a difference in the end

 

Lolol that is wild, I have not seen that before

 

Key cards are embarrassing. It’s caused me to buy more digital games the last few months than I did the entire time I played on Switch 1.

 

I personally think they are fine, most games that are “on a disc/card” are basically unplayable without a patch anyway. The only thing is storage.

Also sales numbers have shown that they sell in the same ratio to digital as non-key cards do, which shows that this huge online controversy is not real with normal consumers and just rage-bait.

 

I just like to physically have a game on cartridge and key cards allow them to sell physical boxes with nothing but an empty cartridge. My worst nightmare when it comes to gaming is now a reality

 

Like I said, most regular physical games for the last 10 years might as well have been that. However, I don’t disagree that it sucks, I’m just saying key cards aren’t all that different. At least you can resell and share them unlike digital games though.

 

the problem keycards are supposed to solve is twofolds: it's not just that storage is expensive, but fast storage is super expensive, and especially with games like Star Wars Outlaws that rely on streaming in a lot of assets at a time can not use the keycard to play the game anyway. Yes, you'd be bypassing a sizable download, but you'd still have to put the contents of the cart on your Switch and a cavalcade of patches.

I'm not trying to defend game key cards, but unless you want to pay 80 bucks for every game this is for the best. Plus, the resell thing is also obviously a factor, as is the more straightforward legal ownership construct. (also you can totally lend one to a friend.)

Unless you're saving at least 15 bucks, it'd be foolish to forgo the physical option.

 

I just like to have a physical cartridge. I only buy digital if there’s no physical release

 

I always buy digital so my games are all in one place, safely stored on the cloud.

 

I haven't gotten a TB card yet so it's definitely kept me from buying games that don't have anything on the cartridge. I could delete stuff I'm not really using but I don't feel like putting the effort into managing stuff that way

 

I feel like I robbed them

 

i generally will buy physical unless it's more of a smaller, low-stakes game that i just feel like picking up digitally. the only exception to that was Animal Crossing, which i originally preordered physically back in 2020, but switched to a digital preorder because lockdown was starting, and i wasn't sure if it was safe to leave the house at the time.

 

I almost always buy digital unless I can get a discount on a physical copy. I have not bought a single physical game since getting my Switch 2. Less shit to carry around if I'm traveling

 

I haven't bought a physical game in years for modern consoles.