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In an era dominated by digital downloads and streaming services, the importance of physical media in gaming remains a topic of discussion.
Of course, Nintendo has always preferred physical sales, especially since they skew to a younger audience, and kids want games for their birthdays and holidays. They go to the store and pick the game they want.
Since the Wii they have always been the last major publisher to support modern tech or concepts, and they will be the last to support physical if it ever goes away. Which I hope it doesn't.
Nintendo just likes sales in general. If they can sell digital more, they would because the 2nd hand market they do not get a cut of. For me, i tend to buy more physical switch games than I do other platforms. I do have my fair share of digital deals from the eshop though. Especially if its something that i have a sealed physical copy of and dont want to reduce its value.
OK, but you need better format where these games could actually fit instead of half of the game being in physical form and all I have being on a digital code or have to download
The one caveat with cartridges. If the leaks are true the internal storage stands at 256gb plus SD card support too.
You could have a 256gb card and a 10gb card. Publishers will simply use the 10gb one and make you download the rest.
There are cards that can fit all of a game but those cost more, and publishers are cheap. It's weird cause with how much the switch has sold and how long it's been on the market the costs to manufacture these cards should've been much lower by now. It's a publisher issue cause there has only been very few exceptions on PS and Xbox, rest of the industry would rather force a download despite Blu-ray being cheap.
Your right. It's definitely a publisher issue. From my time collecting that's what I've come across. Just always remember
Doesitplay.org
Tell you everything you need to know about releases.
Pretty sure most, if not all, of Nintendo first party titles are all on cartridge. It’s the third parties.
Yeah it artificially retains the high prices for their software. Hence Pirates will always have their day with them.
""We have said it before and we'll say it again--we want everyone to play together! While there are no issues with Steam, the main hurdle is Sony's policy against PS4 cross-network play with Xbox. We just don't have the time or resources to make multiple versions of the PC game and servers that support cross play with only one console platform (and it's confusing for end users). When the day comes that Xbox Live and PSN players are allowed to play together, we'll be first in line to support it.""
Good Guy Sony moving the industry forward once again smh...
Good on you Sony for behaving like the child in the room and holding something back that a lot of developers are now either wanting or working on.
As time goes on the amount of developers will only increase who support cross play, in the end Sony won't be able to ignore it and will cave in.
I think Sony were actually thinking that when they tried to get cross play moving and no one got behind them at the time that this time it was announced that it was just going to blow over like before. It's obvious that cross play is a feature that isn't going away as it did before and as gaming as a whole gets better so to will cross play and the things that cross play can bring with it.
All the devs have to do is allow crossplay between PC and Xbox and leave Sony to it's own policy. If more people move to Xbox then Sony will have to support it or be left behind.
For those that think oh I'm only doing this to have a pop at Sony, no that's actually not true. I applaud many things Sony does as a whole and just like I see every other dev out there gaming wouldn't be what it was today as a whole if it was not for the likes of Sony, ms and Nintendo as much as Atari and Sega and all the pc computer developers as well as games devs themselves. That is why I can not figure Sony's stance out on this what so ever, it doesn't matter what anyone says it just doesn't make any sense to at least not give it ago and see how it goes which we all know the answer if they did, they would remain with cross play.
Also people who seem to be blindlessly siding with Sony come out with the fact that up until ms announced cross play this time that no one was interested, yet again that isn't true and I'm glad you can see into people's minds.
I can say from my view when I first entertained the idea of a unified connected set of platforms and I can tell you it was before the ps2 and original Xbox. In fact the idea came around to me while I had my first online console which was the Sega dream cast. However it was just that an idea of being able to play alongside other future consoles or future console would be connected in the future, an idea but a simple one, not to what I think about a bunch of connected platforms to this day and what it could bring. Then I got my ps2, yeh know with the network disc and box you would put on the back, yes to this day I still have them as a memory on how much I would have to port forward games and place the console in a DMZ. Anyway once I was broadbanding away on games like monster Hunter, killzone and star wars battlefront for ps2, the idea of connecting more with a console which was with the original Xbox hit not just me but my friends as well, sure we didn't call it cross play as cross play as a name didn't exist then, we simply reffered to it as just connecting to another console and thinking how awesome that would be. No doubt back then if cross play had of made it, it would of been so simple as just connecting console together but in today's gaming world so much support can be given to make cross play a truly fantastic service, I have thought about it in great detail and seen the possibilitys with cross play.
So you see that is where my first thoughts of cross play came about, and I'm sure there have been many who have also pondered it the same way I have or a little more.
Gamers as a whole, not fanboys and not haters, real gamers who respect the industry truly know what good can come from cross play, know that Sony are making a mistake on this one and there are a lot out there that actually thought about it as a service before PlayStation 2 came along.
Most who want the service do so because we want to see the service evolve. The idea that gamers will benefit from it as a whole will do so and enjoy the fact it only enables us to connect more freely to others and opens up the gaming world and connectivity even more, not because it is a pop at Sony but because it's all about the world of being online together with as many people as possible and being unrestricted to what we are aloud to do when playing our beloved games.
Why can't we just have steam on both consoles as a neutral 3rd party app with crossplay support for certain games ?