Nintendo Video Game • Page 93

Which is basically another $200. Fun stuff, right?

 

Haha price of doing business I guess. At least it's not like the Vita lol

And I'll still have a whole backlog of shit I still have to play so I don't need to get a lot of stuff new right at the jump

 

Yeah and at least it's been nice enough to go on sale for like $20-$30 already. Not that I can afford that right now either. lol

 

Damn, and I thought the $87 I spent on my 1 TB Sandisk Extreme microSD was insane lol

 

When did you get yours? Mine definitely wasn't that cheap, but I honestly don't remember how much it was. I got it pretty early on I think.

edit: found my order from amazon. It cost $160 when I got mine in April 2021.

 

The majority of time I buy physical so I don’t need that much space for my switch 2. I bought a 256 GB for the switch 1 and still haven’t filled that up

 

Yeah it just feels like a lot of the third party stuff is gonna transition to these game-key cards with none of the game on the actual card. Hopefully it's not the norm though

 

It’s the norm until Nintendo comes up with cards in between in terms of size, so far there are only keycards or like 65 gb (or very close to that) cards that cost $14 or something to manufacture per card, so basically everyone except for Nintendo opts for keycards, both those over or under 65 gb

 

Those key cards aren’t so bad though. They can be used by multiple people, resold etc. They’re not like one-time codes. It’s not like physical games on other platforms (and often even Switch) have contained actually playable versions of games that don’t require additional downloads or patches in the last 15 years or so.

 

Bought it on Amazon exactly one year ago . It's $91 now

 

Personally, I don't hate the idea of key cards. It solves the problem of being able to sell a digital game when you're done with it, and allows you to share it with friends and family

 

It will keep GameStop in business.

 

True. And tbh other consoles have been doing it forever, too. My Spider-Man Miles Morales disc for PS5 doesn't have the actual game on it. You still have a massive download when you stick it in

 

Don’t the keycards functionally operate the same as physical though? Like you have to physically buy it and have the key card in when you’re playing it?

I’ve always felt the convenience of digital games is not having to do all that lol

 

Yeah that's what we've been talking about. It's a download, but at least allows you to sell it or share it with friends

 

I get that, but what makes it functionally different? You still have to sell and use a physical product to use, lend and sell it. The only different is you have to download it when it’s in.

The benefits you’re talking about are the exact same as a physical game with it on the cartridge.

 

It saves developers money on expensive cards that go up in price depending on the size of the game, allowing for cheaper prices to the end user. This console supports 4K games now, meaning larger file sizes. I wouldn't be surprised if a game like Cyberpunk just cannot fit on a card (or maybe I'm wrong? Idk lol)

EDIT

Yep, wrong about cyberpunk. Seems they fit it on a card which is pretty impressive haha

 

the problem is that they'll only be as functional as their content provider. sure, they'll work fine now, but what happens when Nintendo inevitably shuts down online services for the Switch 2 years from now? or what if the game is delisted from the eShop? a physical cartridge might at least sidestep some availability issues

 

in theory, i like the idea of the keycards for the sake of content sharing, but they don't do a whole lot for content longevity

 

I was gonna say haha. I admittedly don’t know much about key cards, but the narrative seems to be it’s more doable and it’s more of a cost cut to developers but that doesn’t get passed to the consumer. Prices still go up and they’re just increasing their profit margin.

So at the end of the day, costs still go up and you’re getting a lesser product that requires you to download, defeating the purpose of buying a physical game, when the functionality remains the same.

I truly don’t know much about this and am trying to figure this out as we discuss so know I’m legit not trying to argue.

 

Yeah idk we still don't know how common an $80 game will be

 

The only way they'll get worried about the variable pricing thing is if people don't buy MK when it comes out. But that's obviously not going to happen, so the next Zelda will probably be $90. lol

 

Actually, what am I talking about? GTA6 is definitely gonna be $100, so that would save the concept for Nintendo even if MK doesn't sell well. They have a fallback lol

 

I'd pay $80 for maybe a few big hitter games like a AAA Zelda game, but not sure I could be convinced to buy that many otherwise. $90-100? Hell no.

Only reason I'm getting Mario Kart is because I managed to get the bundle

 

DK Bananza seems to be up to the quality of Mario Odyssey so I'm hoping that $70 will be more of the norm for AAA first party games but who knows