Missed out on Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders? Customers in Europe can now order direct from Nintendo without (most of) the extra requirements.
After years of waiting, Mario Kart World is the new installment in the racing series, but its new features reveal that the genre may go beyond racing.
LOL
The only boundaries it's going to push are the boundaries of the series itself. nothing more
Sega had a few reveals about Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. and the new game code-named New Virtua Fighter Project.
Following an internal Arc System Works internal hack, new information has leaked about why there are so many game-key card physical releases for Nintendo Switch 2.
I hope 3rd party developers and publishers abandon the switch 2 ..if this is true.
This is more scummy than the N64.
Nintendo should let developers use the lower capacity cards if their games are smaller. Just like Sony should do the same. Sadly, it looks like neither is willing to budge on the use of the higher capacity medium regardless if the game can fit on something significantly smaller. I've seen PS5 games that can fit on a regular DVD and yet they are forced to use the UHD format. Smaller capacity media is more cost effective... so why can't these companies let them use what works.
Nintendo have always been about the game carts, for me anyway, this is a bad move, the collectability just went out the window
There's a discussion on the Switch2 subreddit that suggests that Nintendo probably had to have Macronix set up an entire production line just to get the 64-GB game cards made. Apparently, the minimum capacity for the SD Express specification is 128 GB because smaller capacities cannot (currently; and may never) reach the very high (SSD-like) bandwidth of the specification. It is conjecture, but it might make most sense. Nintendo would be hoping to drive down the cost of the 64-GB cards with time and economy-of-scale, and that size is closest to the latest optical discs without being prohibitively expensive. Even if a 32-GB card could be validated eventually, they would then have to have multiple custom production lines (which is VERY expensive to tool---and then they would be reducing the benefit of scale to either card capacity). It is also possible that cost-reduction scale will be achieved as the Express cards become more mainstream, perhaps eventually to the point where the 128-GB cards become economical for Nintendo, and, in turn, the game publishers.