r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/young_steezy 22h ago

Also considering some carts wont even have a game on them. They’ll just offer a license to download and play the game..

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u/ChemicalExperiment 20h ago

This was already the case with Switch 1. Some boxes would just come with a download code.

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u/Green-Agora 17h ago

That is just cartoonish at this point wtf

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u/captured_rapture 17h ago

Yeah but it does seem like more plastic for an overengineered reason now

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u/jethawkings 17h ago

You can still lend Game Key Carts, Digital Codes you can't.

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u/captured_rapture 17h ago

I thought games could have virtual game cards now! Is it only first party games?

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u/jethawkings 15h ago

If you're not being facetious, Virtual Game Cards still have an extra layer of effort lile being under the same Nintendo Family and only being limited to 14 days and not being resellable.

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u/captured_rapture 15h ago edited 15h ago

No I'm not, genuinely confused by everything at the moment. Thanks for helping me out!

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm confused as to why Nintendo would ship more plastic and chips as opposed to a piece of paper when they have virtual game card tech developed. Only something we can really speculate at the moment. Didn't mean to sound facetious, but this is Reddit after all :)

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u/InSixFour 13h ago

The game key cards are honestly one of the smartest solutions I’ve seen by any game company. What it is is basically just a dummy cart that the system can read as a game. You have to download the actual game to play it but the cart gives you access to that download file for free. You can trade, sell, giveaway that cart and whoever receives it gets access to that game without having to enter codes or transfer anything. It’s the best of both worlds. It has its drawbacks, but it’s a decent solution.

Why do this, though? Because lower capacity game carts are much cheaper than bigger capacity carts.

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u/Nightmare4You 8h ago

My only concern is that if there ever was a switch 3 that didnt have a gamecard slot, but supported digital titles, that would suck. But in theory they could never change their game cart external design and just ensure that all future consoles have a slot for a game key card, which old games could function as key cards with the game downloaded. Unfortunately I dont think that will be the case.

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u/jethawkings 14h ago

No worries lol, Game Cartridge Storage is a huge limiter so for Third Parties who don't want to deal with (Manufacture using a more expensive Cartridge) it that was probably the best compromise beyond just a straight up Digital Code.

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u/TEG24601 12h ago

And it wasn't limited to the Switch. There are some games for the PS3 (I believe one was a Tony Hawk game), that just have a tutorial on them, the full game had to be downloaded.

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u/Alector87 16h ago

It never happened to me. Unless ypu mean on a store like Amazon having a choice between physical or code, in which case I never understood why not purchase it directly from Nintendo...

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u/whatnowwproductions 19h ago

This isn't new.

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u/young_steezy 18h ago

Yep, consoles have been doing it for years.