Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games

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• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They really wanna phase out physical games.

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  • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And when they do, mark my words, they’ll raise the price of digital games to $70-80 because “we’re Nintendo, what the fuck are you gonna do about it?”

    Well, Ninty, I have a Steam Deck loaded with cracked games, roms of your old shit you refuse to rerelease, PC ports of said roms, fan games, and games I’ve bought theough Steam that will literally last me several generations at this point, and that’s not even counting the games that have yet to release.

    Yessir, I have enough PC games to never touch a Nintendo game ever again. And if I ever do feel the urge, there are tons of fan games, ports and roms of Nintendo IP accessible via web browser.

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    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Look, I have the same setup as you and I also have a Nintendo Switch 2 with which myself and my kids are getting hours a day of wholesome constructive fun together in Pokopia. I don’t think “well I can just steal stuff” is the great argument you think it is.

      They know. They don’t care. You are on a report. You are shrinkage.

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  • JamieT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yup. Good job Nintendo have an excellent track record of not shutting down their stores prematurely and making it easy to transfer your purchases to new consoles.

    Oh wait.

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  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Goddamn.

    You’re not wrong and Nintendo could go bankrupt tomorrow for all I care, but if this isn’t the precise thing people have been harping on about for a decade now, and here we are with someone doing the thing and there’s a immediate complaint.

    Dammed if they do, dammed if they don’t. We should have stopped at arcades. Maybe paying per character life and without save states was the peak.

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re damned if they do because it’s too little too late and most of their carts are just a keyed license to the game and not the game itself anyways, which kinda’ begs the question why they’ll remain higher priced. They’re damned if they don’t because people don’t have as much disposable income as they used to and Nintendo is wonderful at not enticing anyone with new IPs these days anyways.

      They’ve hoarded their wealth too long, and now they get to pay the price, one way or the other.

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• als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• tomatoely@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do switch 2 cartridges even store the full game? atp they’re more of a symbolic gesture than a copy of a title

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  • Whitebrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Very few of them do, grand majority are just game key cartridges.

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  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most of them do, yeah. There’s a big ugly box on the front of the ones that do not, so you can avoid them. Same with Switch 1 games that require a download.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why did I buy a Switch 2 again? Just for Cyberpunk 2077 it seems. I could already play that anyway.

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well that’s cheaper than 70$ for a game + 15$ per month for the battle pass

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