@HeadPirate : That is what third events need folks to assume. They solely care about their backside line, therefore why they usually rush unfinished crap to cabinets and “bodily” releases with little to nothing on the provided media, no matter platform.
It is the truth that the lots lap up their anti-consumer slop that third events proceed to get away with it. One thing’s bought to provide, and I am glad that individuals listed here are being vocal about their disdain for “key playing cards”. The relative minority of releases that had been launched as such on Swap 1 had been problematic sufficient, however there must be pushback if we’re going to see any materials distinction to the best way that third events do enterprise going ahead.
Nintendo deserves an excellent chunk of the blame for even permitting the observe to happen on their platforms within the first place. I think about that had Nintendo nonetheless been dominated underneath Iwata’s thumb that we might by no means have seen such disdainful practices propagate on their platforms, even on the expense of pushing aside the much less scrupulous of third celebration publishers.
Nintendo had been additionally extraordinarily short-sighted for not permitting Swap 1 cartridges to be repurposed for Swap 2 video games, notably these that don’t require the (rumoured) 64GB storage or elevated learn speeds. Releases corresponding to Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, Octopath Traveller 0, Shadow Labyrinth, Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac, all of those ought to have had correct Swap 2 bodily releases, cross-compatible with the Swap 1, with out the necessity for the upper capability/velocity media.
@Medic_alert : LRG/Sega’s bodily launch of Yakuza Kiwami shipped on a 32GB cartridge for a mere US$35. That is finances value territory for a lot, far smaller video games.
We routinely get third events skimping on cartridges once they cost $60, and now even $70! I refuse to imagine for a second that these cartridges are wherever close to as costly as some have been speculating if a 32GB cartridge could be offered for as little as US$35.
