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Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20 [Switch 2 Direct] | Apr 02 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025
I hate this. I want to forever own the game. Final Fantasy X/X-2 does the same thing, with X-2 being a download. It's not like I can count on Nintendo's servers being up forever, or at least there being a mirror site for downloading a game.
It's practices like this that just encourage piracy. At some point Nintendo will close those servers, and in all likelihood game preservationists and fans will be the ones to keep things going. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a physical copy of a game. Especially annoying when they opt for digital downloads for a game like FFX-2 - surely both those games could fit onto a nintendo switch cartridge (they go up to 64GB) - but I guess it's cheaper for them to use a smaller volume card...
What I enjoy about collecting physical games is just the experience of owning the physical copy and popping the cartridge into the Switch when I play, so this doesn’t super bother me. But I totally get the preservationist argument for having all the games on the cart (or across separate ones) and would prefer that.
I'm different. The appeal of owning the game on cartridge to me is to have the entire game on the cartridge. If any significant portion is downloadable only, I see no reason to not just download the whole thing.
I can understand your argument completely though. It just feels like a waste of material to me when the cartridge doesn't carry the game(s) itself.
I wonder how Arkham Knight will even run on this thing, it’s such a massive performance hog.
I was wondering the same when I watched the announcement
Yeah, that's pretty typical for some of these Switch game collections. Asylum is the smallest so it gets to be on the game card (probably a 4GB one).
Still not as stupid as the Megaman Legacy Collection 1+2 physical release, where they only included the first collection on the card which weighed in at about 500mb~.
Publishers will penny pinch any way they can.
They did this with the the Spyro trilogy remake. The cart contains only the first game and you have to download the others. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying physical.
with starfield also essentially being digital only, we're gonna start seeing the last gasps of physical soon.
I don't think physical will die so soon. But there are couple of other recent examples too, like Alan Wake II (and another big game I forgot) releasing as digital only.