Nintendo Switch Digital Games: Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 & More Expired

Nintendo sells us a game LICENSE. Either tied to a physical dongle (cartridge) or permanently tied to an email account.

When (not if) Nintendo shuts down servers, it may not matter if you have a digital or physical copy. The chances that your physical copy ver 1.0 will work on your version XX.XX Switch are minimal without some patch that you wont be able to get anymore.

Gone are they days when a console was timeless. Any console with an internet connection will have a day of reckoning. Make sure you have all the games you will ever want to play installed (digital or physical) before that day comes and disconnect it from the net.

Physical games on the switch are a license dongle with some ROM storage. Most of the older physical games I've bought force a download in order to even run the game.

Today really, the ONLY reasons to get a physical copy are:
1. Resale value (for now)
2. Box Art... I guess.
3. Save some room an SD card. (Not much, as patches take up plenty of room)

Reasons not to get physical:
1. Can't play on multiple shared account Switches (not relevant for everyone)
2. Not convenient to swap cartridges. The biggest issue for me.
3. You can loose or damage a cartridge.

Regarding loading speed I'm not sure and haven't tested. But I have a feeling that a fast SD card may preform better than a cartridge. Again, any patches will be loaded from the SD card anyway.

All my AAA games are physical. I'm now regretting that path.

Nintendo sells us a game LICENSE. Either tied to a physical dongle (cartridge) or permanently tied to an email account.

When (not if) Nintendo shuts down servers, it may not matter if you have a digital or physical copy. The chances that your physical copy ver 1.0 will work on your version XX.XX Switch are minimal without some patch that you wont be able to get anymore.

Gone are they days when a console was timeless. Any console with an internet connection will have a day of reckoning. Make sure you have all the games you will ever want to play installed (digital or physical) before that day comes and disconnect it from the net.

Physical games on the switch are a license dongle with some ROM storage. Most of the older physical games I've bought force a download in order to even run the game.

Today really, the ONLY reasons to get a physical copy are:
1. Resale value (for now)
2. Box Art... I guess.
3. Save some room an SD card. (Not much, as patches take up plenty of room)

Reasons not to get physical:
1. Can't play on multiple shared account Switches (not relevant for everyone)
2. Not convenient to swap cartridges. The biggest issue for me.
3. You can loose or damage a cartridge.

Regarding loading speed I'm not sure and haven't tested. But I have a feeling that a fast SD card may preform better than a cartridge. Again, any patches will be loaded from the SD card anyway.

All my AAA games are physical. I'm now regretting that path.

As a collector, I'm still waiting patiently for nintendo selects. Not paying 40$ for a video game when I can get many great games used for under 10$. Nintendo is so damn greedy with their prices.

Yeah, not sure if it's a generational thing - GenX here - but I'm all in on digital. I never resell anything - not worth my time. I will extremely rarely buy physical because it comes with some bonus figurine/add-on thing, but that's maybe 1/200 times.

Physical game/movie/music media is dead to me. Except vinyl, I'm a weird hipster and have an extremely small and selective vinyl collection. Same with some UHD BluRays for some of my fav movies.