Their “Game Key”-Cartridges literally are just shortcuts to the eshop. Nintendo thinks you’re stupid.
Literally the same thing publishers and Steam did to build a PC gaming monopoly.
They know G*mers are dumbasses
Game keys are much better, as they can be resold. It’s similar to what Xbox is doing.
They’ll become useless plastic when the eShop servers inevitably shut down. They have less functional longevity than an NES cartridge.
Nintendo: We respect your love of owning physical games. Also Nintendo: Here’s a cartridge containing approximately zero game, just a tiny plastic permission slip for our servers. It’s like selling someone a book where every page says »please connect to the library.« Still, apparently that counts as consumer friendly now.
To be honest this is not recent news, basically since PS4/XONE era, physical media died.
I think it was Fallout 76 that needed you to download a ~80GB patch from DAY ONE to let you play? And please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Microsoft at some point (not sure if this is still the same) didn’t let you even share game discs because your “digital ownership” was tied to your console/user when you first installed the game?
Shitendo is just pulling off their cool glasses to tell everyone: “We are the good guys! Believe us!” because they somehow always have a market that can remember the “good things” and forget the bad ones.
According to DoesItPlay.org, only 13% of PS4 games required a download to play. When you look at PS5, it’s only 17% requiring download.
Microsoft actually implemented the opposite of your described sharing method recently. When you first put in physical media, you are allowed a digital download of that until that disc is put into another Xbox, where the license is immediately transferred.
Lol no they fucking do not
I say this like an ex-boyfriend from an abusive relationship, Nintendo does not love you. Much like most people in my life, once I ran out of money, Nintendo disappeared.
The lawsuit company cares about you.
Remember when Nintendo had to be sued to make them repair their (blindingly expensive) flimsy-ass joycons, and then they decided to make the Switch 2 with the exact same defective parts?
Sure, “physical media” that contains no game. Let me know when there’s a working Switch 2 emulator, because I’m done buying expensive computers where only a big corporation has root access.
