I mean sure… and the worlds gonna end eventually too and all your media will be lost…
That article is for the 3DS family of systems. Nintendo has their own branded microSD cards for Switch that go up to at least 512 GB.
And your game files for your digital purchases will be available to download long after March 2023. They’ll be available on your hard drive or wherever else you choose to back them up long after your systems die, long after your physical media fails, and long after you’re in your grave, as long as someone continues to transfer the files to new storage media.
I thought the same thing, since the ridiculous aftermarket price for physical copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy was a selling point for me for the Wii U. The Google link just brought up the main Nintendo store page for me.
It’s literally one of them. You can go to yard sales or eBay and literally buy NES and SNES physical media that is not available in any legal digital store. I get your point that all that stuff is also available from third party sites as preservation, I just wish the best option for some of it wasn’t going outside of legit marketplaces where I’ve purchased the games once already.
This again?
The difference in perspective on this is determined by what degree someone chooses to respect IP laws. There's not much point arguing between different sides.
You’re confusing accessibility to new audiences with preservation for personal use, these are different things. Yes, physical media is superior for the former outside of the realm of piracy. No, it is not superior for the latter. If you’re serious about keeping your purchased games in good shape for your own use years down the line, it is much more difficult to rip physical media and then write it again to identical physical media (or mod the console to use a more common storage format like SD cards) than it is to copy digitally purchased titles from an HDD or SD card.
Games definitely had bugs and issues that got fixed in localization to the other regions or releasing updated versions in new cartridges with those issues fixed.
Yeah and some of the prices don't accurately reflect until you click on them also.
Also, we can now see publishers discounts on the website instead of having to pull up the eshop on the Switch.
I was lucky to never get the save bug and my friends and I played that game all the time.
I never even knew there was a save bug in that. I really only played it to beat it and when I was at friends house I would school them. I was still hooked on VPW2 and felt the additions to No Mercy were a downgrade so maybe if I played longer I would have encountered it.
All the talk of Earthbound coming to the Switch also brings up the point of games that, for whatever reason, never got an English language release, i.e. Mother 3, Miles Edgeworth 2 (although the release of Ace Attorney Chronicles may cause some to hope), Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, and Jump Ultimate Stars. Not to mention the years of classic Fire Emblem games. These are things that, if we want to play them in today's day and age, we either have to hope for one of those Switch bundles like Capcom did with the Castlevania and Contra franchises (Castlevania Bloodlines without a rom or physical Genesis copy, hell yeah), or rely on fan translated roms. There are a lot of games that, if not purchased digitally, are lost to time. I still have an Ambassador 3DS with the GBA games that were never released on the 3DS any other way, as well as the DSIWare Shantae and Legendof Zelda Four Swords Adventures. I see the benefit of both digital and physical. And thank you to the poster who pointed out that I can format a larger Micro SDHC card or my 3DS. I will be taking advantage of that.
Yeah it sucked because it would wipe out all of the wrestlers you created. Spent hours re creating just to have them wiped again later.
At least they added a cart.
The website has shown publisher discounts for the past year or more.
I just saw this on the CAG twitter feed. Awesome deal, glad I waited!
At first it was sold out but it went back in stock and I picked it up. I played a lot of Xcom 2 on PC, but it’ll be nice to have a Switch version for essentially $2.50.
Still available, heck of a deal. I loved the first Xcom reboot game, but wasn't sure how this would run on Switch. For $5 its worth a try.
Probably still worth it - lovely games and will probably look great on the Pocket. Hope you enjoy.
Was going to mention that but I think they can't get them if they didn't already register for the current tournament.
Everything I heard said three matches. But yeah, win or lose you get the bird. That's why I called them participation trophies. As long as you play three matches, you get a prize. Which is good, because I do fine vs the NPC, but not against real people.
