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Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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And why I continue to buy games and support sailing the seas.

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Switch carts are proprietary and expensive. Rumor has it that 64 GB is the smallest cart you can buy for the switch 2. And corporations will do anything to save a buck.

[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm hoping that at least Nintendo will release their full games on the card. The truth is I'm probably not buying many third party games on Switch that aren't exclusives.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Afaik, they are. It's just that third party developers would need to optimize their file sizes heavily for the great pay off of reducing their profit margin. They already didn't want to do that for the Switch and Nintendo now enables them to not do it to incentivize more ports.

At least in Japan, I think, every 1st party game comes on the cartridge, pretty much every third party game except for Cyberpunk comes as a code.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Same. I have no plans to even buy one until I see what their first party offerings end up being

[–] missingno@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

64GB is the maximum cart size, not minimum.