expiredphoinix | Staff posted Mar 15, 2026 09:36 AM
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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Mar 15, 2026 09:36 AM
$44.99 | DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake (Nintendo Switch 2) at Amazon
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The key card makes it so people can buy and then sell it later as it's not locked to your Nintendo account like a digital purchase...which is good for consumers.
Retailers still make money on them..so it's good for them. The developers only have to pay $1 for the card for these instead of $18 for an actual cartridge...so good for developers.
And, we have a few games on Switch 2 that we wouldn't have without them. The developers from both SW Outlaws and Final Fantasy 7 have said in interviews that the cartridges read too slow for their games to run. Both games require high speed data transmission to work. The games simply would not work without super long load times or lots of frame rate drops.
I get it. I love having my physical for years down the road. But, the cartridges are not like cartridges of old like SNES, Atari, etc. those used Mask Rom. And they have a life expectancy of 50-100 years. Tbe Switch (as well as DS, 3ds,etc) all use flash memory. These cartridges have a general lifespan of 20 years..which is why some DS cartridges are beginning to fail already. Some may make it last 30, but not close to 50+ like the old ones.
So, as much of a collector as I am, I decided to buy mostly digital, unless it's a special edition or I like the case (worms Armageddon 25th, Indiana Jones,etc ). I think the digital copies will still be playable on Nintendo's next console, I'm not so sure it will still have a cartridge slot though. Kind of like Xbox. I sold all my discs about a year before they announced that the new standard series X had no disc drive. All digital games will be BC with their new PC/Xbox hybrid console...but disc games are left behind. I'm told, haven't checked myself, that even Wii digital games can still be downloaded.
It took me a while to get used to digital, but I like it now.
I sure wish there was a proper zombie fps. Or even 3rd person shooter... Like State of Emergency... on Switch. I'm told there's a mode in RE village that you can get extra and just do like a survival type mode of just shooting zombies?
I'm a collector, but I understand. If they don't like it...stick with Switch 1 versions. Those are all on the cartridge
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I'm a collector, but I understand. If they don't like it...stick with Switch 1 versions. Those are all on the cartridge
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