Nintendo confirms its commitment to physical games

In an era dominated by digital downloads and streaming services, the importance of physical media in gaming remains a topic of discussion.

[Chocoburger]

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.

[darthv72]

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.

[Cacabunga]

Then I know for sure who I will be supporting

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Physical games for life boiiii

[neutralgamer1992]

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

[Hofstaderman]

The one caveat with cartridges. If the leaks are true the internal storage stands at 256gb plus SD card support too.

[franwex]

You could have a 256gb card and a 10gb card. Publishers will simply use the 10gb one and make you download the rest.

[Inverno]

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.

[shinoff2183]

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.

[Flakegriffin]

Pretty sure most, if not all, of Nintendo first party titles are all on cartridge. It’s the third parties.

[Neonridr]

that's on devs who opt for cheaper sized cartridges to save on manufacturing costs.

[Hofstaderman]

As they should.

[ActualWhiteMan]

Yeah it artificially retains the high prices for their software. Hence Pirates will always have their day with them.

[S2Killinit]

You gotta love Ninty

[CrimsonWing69]

How about a commitment to maybe putting them on sale that isn’t like just $10 off?

[MetroidFREAK21]

The only way I plan on buying my Switch 2 games

[hiawa23]

I have more digital Switch games than physical so I am fine with either but the writing is on the wall, physical is going out whether that be music, movies, and yes, videogames also.

[TheColbertinator]

Based Nintendo

Sony and Microsoft are scum seeking weenies

[QuantumMechanic]

"Nintendo confirms its commitment to QuantumMechanics' wallet"

[SonOfOsiris]

Nintendo FTW

[ravens52]

Good.

[Flakegriffin]

Love to hear this!

[shinoff2183]

This is one thing I don't think Sony gets credit for. They just get lumped in with Xbox. Sony was the first and only ones letting small publishers have print runs as low as 1k. Xbox, nope, Nintendo didn't want anything to do with it till well after Sony.

[rlow1]

Who cares??? Article is about Nintendo.

[garos82]

and so will my commitment back at you Nintendo. Thank you!

[fsfsxii]

And so will my commitment to buy used software and pirate your games and support hardware hackers to break your system.

[Kosic]

Yeah, continue the Nintendo tax, I can't see why they'd want to get rid of that anytime soon...

[Walalon]

And with this they won a significant portion of people, see MS? It's not that hard to say something nice.