Nintendo has confirmed that Switch 2 editions of original Switch games will have the full game on the card and not a download.
  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    21·
    9 days ago

    As opposed to what?

    As opposed to what literally everyone else is doing?

    Download-only would (1) increase costs of a system

    What? If anything it would decrease it because there’s no slot needed for the media.

    require Nintendo’s online infrastructure to lurch forward by about fifteen years.

    I don’t see how that’s a bad thing.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      9 days ago

      Have you priced SSDs, relative to… slots?

      I don’t see how that’s a bad thing.

      Bad, no. Hard, yes.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        It…already has an SSD? Have you contemplated the costs of slot + game cards + shipping + third-party sales fees vs. SSD?

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          43·
          9 days ago

          It has an SSD sized on the assumption that games go in the slot. It has an SSD that’s the price of a game, and will only hold a dozen. And they could probably get away with less, thanks to focusing on the negligible cost of a hole and some pins.

          Nintendo is only now figuring out that Virtual Console purchases should be transferable… at all. They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console. I think the idea of deleting a game and re-downloading it, for free, was a recent surprise to some of these people. The same way Sony’s still trying to repeat the PS2, Nintendo’s been trying to repeat the Famicom Disk System.

          • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            Have you contemplated the costs of slot + game cards vs. SSD?

            They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console

            I mean they’re one of the most profitable companies in the business. There’s no reason they couldn’t become qualified…

                • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  33·
                  9 days ago

                  Commenting on what they’re doing right now is not meaningfully different. This started with you second-guessing their commitment to cartridges.

                  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
                    2·
                    9 days ago

                    You’re mistaken. My statement was simply that it was wild that they were still doing it.