If Nintendo thinks I’m buying another console that won’t be able to play my current ~$500 library of games, they are kidding themselves.
Lots will though and that’s the problem.
That’s like 8 games at full price ($60). Just an assumption. Probably not exactly how you did it.
I may have been conservative with that estimate. I think we have closer to 20-25 games. It’s likely much more money. I also spent money on a case, two new pairs of joy-cons, etc.
For sure. If it’s not backward compatable, I’m probably skipping at least this gen.
Considering the rumors say it will use the same architecture, there’s no reason it wouldn’t be.
There is one. 💵
There’s an elephant in the room? Oh no!
With the limit on cartridge space and optical space no longer an issue. I would hope Sony follows the cartridge route, and Microsoft.
Or they start building these devices with the ability to handle TB’s of storage if they go digital only, which at that point, they have become the steamstore.
This isn’t a bad thing but technology has caught up with the gaming companies.
Cartridges are actually more expensice than discs, the only reason the Switch uses them is because it’s a small tablet. There isn’t much reason for Sony and MS to switch. Many people still want the games to be physical and not just a download key.
Mid cycle Xbox series X refresh will be digital only.
Japanese customers are eternally married to physical media. Nintendo also relies on high resale value to sell their expensive games. If they tried to destroy the secondhand market, they couldn’t justify the prices of their games anymore.
They would sooner go all-digital than eat the manufacturing costs of cartridges. The reason they’re trying to wean us off of physical media is because digital is more profitable, they’re not gonna give up even more of their margins.
I hope Sony and Microsoft doesn’t follow Nintendo. Nintendo has to do it because they have an small device. But a lot companies want to safe money and choosing a smaller cartridge for the switch that doesn’t include the full game anymore. Because bigger cartriges cost more money, they don’t want to lose this. Disc are so cheap, it doesn’t really matter. Square Enix put even 2 dics on the Final Fantasy VII Remake into the box, to give out the full game. Sure not everything is perfect, especialy on microsofts games, but still a lot better than it would be with big games on the switch.
Except for corporate greed, of course. You can be damn sure that there are lots of clever people with spreadsheets running scenarios on this.
I hope for the same change of slot as with DS and 3DS games. Where you can still insert the old card in the new but not in reverse. They even did with GB to GBA and GBA to DS.
The biggest thing I want out of the Switch 2 is the ability to run Switch 1 games at a higher clock speed. Most of the games the Switch 2 should run have already been ported to Switch 1, poorly, and aren’t likely to get re-ported. Instead I expect new Switch 2 ports will again be games the hardware can’t handle, so I’d just like to forego those and catch up, hoping last-gen titles can hit stable framerates.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WH03ht2fVqI
Not as simple as just making the cartridge slot the right size
