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Nintendo Switch2 game key carts are worse then some of you know for the consumer. forget about price, usability is degraded. (kotaku.com)
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Remember when you use to buy a Switch game and the game would atleast partially before updates, be on the cartridge?

Well imagine buying a key cart for your Switch2 and, you have to download the game from their servers from scratch. The game doesn't download itself to the cartridge, but onto your Switch 2 consoles internal memory.

Now imagine getting a bad update and trying to delete some data including the update, just to play with the original games version.

physical Key cart games are treated just like they are digital which means you can't revert the update.

Even if the game is saved onto your Switch's internal you cannot legally play a key cart game, without the key carts inserted in your switch.

The game data is not stored on the key cartridge but on your switch's internal memory.

$80 $70 Nintendo Switch 2 carts

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[–] termaxima@programming.dev 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No game on card ? No buy.

I’m willing to pay for games, in two circumstances :

  1. A physical copy with a full working game on it (even if, understandably, it’s not the latest version)
  2. A digital copy with no DRM

Nintendo obviously will never provide the second option, and if they also refuse to provide the 1st, I guess I’ll have to take my business elsewhere.

[–] SippyCup 5 points 1 day ago

With how easily these games are being cracked these days, yeah.... I'll just emulate Zelda locally. Nintendo makes it really hard to support the good things they produce when they do shit like this

[–] MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm completely in the same boat with how I buy games.

A little off-topic, but it would be really cool if you could update your physical games so that the update is installed onto the disc/cartridge itself, and it could be then used on any console without an internet connection. I don't expect that to ever happen, but it would be cool.

[–] termaxima@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago

That is impossible for disc based games afaik (rewritable discs are just physically different from normal ones, and much less durable) but for cartridges it absolutely should be possible.

It would also be cool if the cartridge also stored save data like they used to, for a true all-in-one experience.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That does sound really cool. I am not sure it would be possible with optical disks, but should be technically possible with the cartridges etc. And yeah, don't expect it to actually happen.

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is 100% possible with optical discs. The manufacturers of optical media toyed with this very idea decades ago.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ah cool, I haven't used optical disks in a long time. Still remember needing CD-writer, with discs needing to be special re-writeable ones.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Some publishers do provide full working game on disc. Most Nintendo first party games are like that, and in Switch 2 games most notable is Cyberpunk 2077 for releasing everything on the cart.