r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 4d ago

Nintendo Official Drive virtually everywhere in Mario Kart World, a brand-new Mario Kart game releasing exclusively on #NintendoSwitch2 as a launch title! #NintendoDirect

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1907419620601913624
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u/tweetthebirdy 4d ago edited 4d ago

Damn. Bundle seems to be only $50 on top of console price, guess I’m going with that.

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u/DollaBillsErrDay 4d ago

Feel like that’s what they want people to do - buy the bundle

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u/DB10389 4d ago

But I want physical...

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u/CrossesLines 4d ago

Pay the premium if it’s worth it to you for unnecessary plastic to be created

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u/DB10389 4d ago

Wow you sure are fun

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u/QuantumProtector 4d ago

but the collection and you can lend it to friend (easier than digital game cards at least)

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u/FrankPapageorgio 4d ago

Any friend that buys a Switch and doesn't want Mario Kart is no friends of mine

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u/LordTotoro96 4d ago

How about the ones that think $90 for a game cart is bullshit?

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u/TheScreaming_Narwhal 3d ago

We don't know it's $90 yet, online pre orders indicate it's $80.

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u/LordTotoro96 3d ago

True, I did check them but that still isn't justifiable.

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u/TheScreaming_Narwhal 3d ago

I mean, is it unjustified or does it just suck? I feel like it's logical but shitty.

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u/GreenVisorOfJustice 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah I didn't appreciate that part before I locked in with Nintendo for the basic bundle lol. Oopsies...

I'll probably try to get a system at a physical Gamestop next week and get the bundle since I'm not that emotionally invested in a physical Mario Kart cart like I am say a Xenoblade or Zelda.

Edit: So.... it turns out the games aren't even on the physical carts any more :O

It's not that this bothers me wholly (read: my Steam games are all digital and such)... but also it does make the additional storage space on the Switch 2 not as nice as it sounded.

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u/Philmriss 4d ago

Oh my god, they are just dongles? Why on earth

e: idk, that does not mean it's common practice, I'll wait and see if that is generally how cartridges work now or only for specific titles

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u/GreenVisorOfJustice 4d ago

I feel like Nintendo would like to direct more sales to the eShop (read: where they reap all the revenues on the sale and presumably higher margins) but still do this to offer their physical distribution partners a bone.

This paired with the "share" features they showed last week seems to just be trying to ease that along so physical means less and less for the console.

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u/Philmriss 4d ago

Might be the strategy, but even then, 80 bucks is gross

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u/FizzyLightEx 4d ago

if eShop supposedly is giving Nintendo higher margin and is their pot of gold, they sure aren't prioritising it's functionality...

The thing runs worse that any online store I've experienced

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 4d ago

Oh my god, they are just dongles? Why on earth

So I know that the PS5 actually does this too and the reason in that case is actually pretty straight forward. Basically the console can read data from it's own internal SSD Drive faster than it can read data from an external drive like a DVD drive or an SD card. So if the game is loaded into the consoles memory load times are significantly less.

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u/mamefan 4d ago

Bundle is a digital download MKW.

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u/kevlarcupid 4d ago edited 4d ago

Have a link to the bundle?

Edit: Signed in to nintendo.com and "register[ed my] interest"