Nintendo Showcases Every Partner Direct Switch 2 Game In New Infographic

@HeadPirate : That’s what third parties want people to think. They only care about their bottom line, hence why they often rush unfinished crap to shelves and “physical” releases with little to nothing on the supplied media, regardless of platform.

It’s the fact that the masses lap up their anti-consumer slop that third parties continue to get away with it. Something’s got to give, and I’m glad that people here are being vocal about their disdain for “key cards”. The relative minority of releases that were released as such on Switch 1 were problematic enough, but there needs to be pushback if we are going to see any material difference to the way that third parties do business going forward.

Nintendo deserves a good chunk of the blame for even allowing the practice to take place on their platforms in the first place. I imagine that had Nintendo still been ruled under Iwata’s thumb that we would never have seen such disdainful practices propagate on their platforms, even at the expense of putting off the less scrupulous of third party publishers.

Nintendo were also extremely short-sighted for not allowing Switch 1 cartridges to be repurposed for Switch 2 games, particularly those that do not require the (rumoured) 64GB storage or increased read speeds. Releases such as Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, Octopath Traveller 0, Shadow Labyrinth, Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac, all of these should have had proper Switch 2 physical releases, cross-compatible with the Switch 1, without the need for the higher capacity/speed media.

@Medic_alert : LRG/Sega’s physical release of Yakuza Kiwami shipped on a 32GB cartridge for a mere US$35. That’s budget price territory for far, far smaller games.

We routinely get third parties skimping on cartridges when they charge $60, and now even $70! I refuse to believe for a second that these cartridges are anywhere near as expensive as some have been speculating if a 32GB cartridge can be sold for as little as US$35.