Kotaku : Once upon a time, Shigeru Miyamoto famously said, “A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever.” It’s a statement that felt like it would never fall out of fashion, until it did. Modern games are never finished. Bad games become good. Good games become bad. Games of all stripes add social components, microtransactions, and events. On this week’s episode of the Splitscreen podcast, we talk about live service games, how they’ve taken over the industry, and how their dominance might finally be receding—a little bit.
Now’s the best time to travel to Night City as Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is the best pickup on the Switch 2 at the moment.
Begone, game-key carts. Full cartridges just work better and here's why.
I didn't bother buying any game key carts for my system despite my preference being physical.
I brought the mkw bundle and that was a digital code but I wasn't going to pay double for the game
I got yakuza 0 digitally as the key card made zero sense to me it costs more and its just a digital game in disguise (I never sell my games anyhow)
...obviously. If a game is 64gb or less, it should release on card. If it exceeds 64gb, the key card comes into play. It does suck that Nintendo wont support smaller cards, SW1 games came on anywhere from 8gb to 32gb cards. The cost of using a 64gb card for a game that would fit comfortably on a 32 or even 16 may not be cost effective for some smaller devs. Hence the use of the key card.
Then again, its taking a page out of Sony's book. They mandated the use of DVD media for all games a few years after the PS2 released. Until then, they supported games on CD. Then when it came to PS3, no game was allowed to use DVD, they all had to be bluray regardless.
Now with PS5, they only use UHD media, no regular bluray for games allowed. Even if the game is smaller than a DVD. So i can see Nintendo trying to standardize their game cards. If devs dont want to pay for the use... the key card is for them.
why even bother buying one of the fake game cards? It's just going to be digital anyway. Save yourself the hassle of having to insert these fake cards and just buy it from the online store.
But I absolutely 100% do not agree with Nintendos take this generation. Forcing the new norm price point, and releasing a majority of their titles digitally with no sense of game preservation. Very disappointing.
Cyberpunk 2077 on the Nintendo Switch 2 is all there and as fun as you remember, but still offers a downgraded version, making concessions to not compromise on the overall scope.
Cyberpunk is one of this gens best RPGs now so it’s a huge game and luckily a lot of ppl probably havnt played it because of the launch.
Huh? Comeback from... what? Single Player games never stopped being dominant. Not sure what this "article" is on about.
Lame Kotaku Clickbait
Even Wolfgang K. thinks this is something lame.
kotaku in the need of clicks. :D
Seriously SP games never left , and some of reasons why Playstation consoles are always on top in this gaming industry. ;)
Where did they go? I’m playing one right now.
This would be true.... if they ever went anywhere. Sounds like Phil Spencer circa 2017?
PlayStation has been dominating the gaming landscape for at least the past eight years largely due to SP games.
Take a look at the last eight consensus Game of the Year winners. FIVE of them are published by Sony, 5/8. That's an unprecedented run, and all of them were noted for their SP campaigns. More than half did not even feature mp at all and in the 2 of 3 years they did not win, they released seminal SP games like Bloodborne and HZD. Ofc Bloodborne has splashes of pve and pvp but it's largely a SP style game. And the other winners included SP titles such as Witcher 3, Zelda BotW, and Mordor.