There are millions of people like me who live in rural areas and have pretty slow internet access. I have two physical games (Links Awakening and Smash) only because they were on sale for a price I couldn’t resist.īut on the next gen consoles they need to still have physical drives. I’m scared I’m going to break it just pulling it up.
Who would buy a used game without the ability to download the rest?Īnd from what I've understood so far, you'd only be able to play the first half hour of several of these games without downloading any extra content, so that's all you'd get if you'd buy these games second hand. Fri 27th Mar Well, as the article mentions, Bioshock seems to be the least of the offenders, seeing as that comes on a 16GB cartridge instead of on an 8GB, like Borderlands and X-COM, but it is a bit unclear for now what they mean exactly when it says "later game contents and add-ons will need to be downloaded", because besides the obvious DLC, that can mean just about anything from entire chapters to crucial parts of the game itself.Įither way, it Well, that just sounds weird and totally useless.If the games themselves were not the deciding factora, the three packages would get a 8 GB card. I.E., you can see how a game like BioShock trilogy is already expected to sell more copies than either Borderlands or Xcom, because it gets the 16 GB card, instead of the smaller 8 one. Nintendo thought the same with Bayonetta, and so and so. It's the Same with Nintendo, Capcom or 2K.if they bring decade old ports that pretty much anyone interested can play on half a dozen of systems, the sales projected are far lower than the ones with the Witcher. But speaking of the same company, where is the physical version of Thronebreaker Witcher Tales? Is a small spinoff, if the expensive cart was such a myth, they surely would release said game at retail.but instead, they obviously believe the projected sales are not worthy of that. The expected sales were high, and CD Project Red went with it.
The Witcher3 original release on current gen consoles was a sales success, it was recent (no old gen version to begin with) and was still selling well even by the time the Switch edition appeared, and what is more, the Netflix series (which was a hit) was just around the corner. The projected sales will dictate the cartridge expense. Thu 26th Mar get your point, but the game have everything to do with it.Some people buy physical games for a reason, and that's NOT to still be forced to download the majority of it, to be able to play them. I truly hope that sales for all of these titles are completely going to bomb, because they deserve it. The whole "expensive" cartridge myth has already been more than debunked, and the best example of that is CD Projekt Red, buying up thousands of 32GB cartridges, to put their ENTIRE game on.Īnd they're a mid-sized developer/publisher, so compared to 2K, they're basically dwarfs, and nobody is going to try and make me believe that a large company like 2K wouldn't be able to bear the weight of that initial investment, especially knowing that it WILL see a return on investment, because their games are still popular, so besides their budget being FAR bigger than CD Projekt Red's, the risk for them is also FAR smaller.Īnd yet, they STILL consciously chose to cheap out on cartridges. Thu 26th Mar No, that's the issue with developers/publishers being f-ing cheap skates.Borderlands Legendary Collection (Switch).If you are thinking about buying any of these collections, then, you might want to consider picking up a new microSD card for your console.
In the case of the Borderlands Collection (and possibly BioShock, looking at the game's cover), buying the game physically would mean that you'd still need a microSD card to install all of the content - the Switch only has 32 GB of space to begin with, so there is no way of playing without paying extra for additional storage. Why would you want to buy a physical game that doesn't actually include the game you're buying?Īside from being part of a collection, one of the benefits of buying a game physically is saving space on your system for smaller eShop titles. We've discussed the reasonings behind this problem at length in the past, but it does make the act of picking up a physical copy seem worthless. Everything else must be downloaded - 2K says this "will not exceed 24 GB".įinally, BioShock will be placed on a 16 GB cart, but "later game contents and add-ons will need to be downloaded". The XCOM collection is also being put on an 8 GB cartridge, holding two base game missions.