Gaming Physical game box with no game inside

fedehda · May 26, 2017

I'm an oldie and I NEED the physical cartridge.

And with the switch around here, I like to lick those cartridges.

Quantumcat · May 27, 2017

The fact that download codes have zero resale value makes the download version effectively way more expensive. And then what happens when the Switch servers are shut down in 2030? As soon as your Switch dies you've lost the game, whereas owners of the physical cartridge can keep playing the game forever.

TehCupcakes · May 27, 2017

Physical cartridges and discs deteriorate... Albeit more from human misuse than age itself. Which situation is preferable is just a matter of how you look at it. I don't really think about games in terms of their resale value because a never buy a game I expect to sell back. (And of the ones I don't expect to sell, very few do I ever end up selling.) Sure, not everyone is like me, but there is certainly a good chunk who are.

What I don't know is what kind of game backup methods are available on the Switch. I would assume you can move games to an SD card, which means the game doesn't really die with the system, even if Nintendo were to shut down their servers. And even that is a long stretch - shutting down the accounts tied to game licensing would be the very last step in cutting off online services, and would only happen when Nintendo is out of business or the Switch becomes utterly irrelevant, many years after its life; I'm talking at the point where 99.99% of users will never touch the Switch again. At that point, you've already got your money's worth and the preservation of games with physical copies is superseded by emulation. Going with the logic, "why would you invest in something online that could be shut down?" you would think nobody would spend money in online games... Yet people do constantly, despite the fact many of them don't live more than a few years. (The average MMO life-span is far less than a gaming console.) The experience is seen as worth the investment, even if only for a temporary experience.

Quantumcat · May 27, 2017

TehCupcakes said:
I would assume you can move games to an SD card, which means the game doesn't really die with the system

You can't insert the SD card of one system in another and have the games work. If the console dies, and you can't call Nintendo to have the account moved to another console (because the servers are down) then the games you owned are dead, even if they're on an SD card.

Sonic Angel Knight · May 27, 2017

Really not into this kind of thing. If i go to the store to buy a game, then i better be getting a game, not a code. Is like buying soda from wendys. "Give me dr.pepper." *Hands me empty cup* Okay so i have to fill it up myself? O_O (Yes is dumb and i know it)

Still As much as i like to have cart of games, i don't mind downloading them as well. Just there is some problems i do not understand.

Why do the price of a download game cost the same as retail? Does it cost just as much to print all those disc/carts as it does to be downloaded on system?

One problem is I am setsuna is $40 as a DOWNLOAD ONLY game on switch. I never seen a download only game cost that much before. O_O
Just to be fair there is only good and bad for the current situation.

Download games don't "Run out of copies" So is not a problem to get a chance to play the game.
Download games require storage space which you would need to buy more of if you run out.
Retail games (I wish i can say they don't use storage space) But because some questionable reasons, like "Install data" on some consoles, it is console dependent. Since we are talking switch here, it doesn't need any install data. Either way is stack your room with game carts or SD storage carts depending how you wanna store your games.

Honestly there many good and bad to both. If all retail games didn't store data on the system like it used to, that would be fine. Going to store buy ps3 game to play and says "Excuse me, we need to install data on your system." In other words, you can't play the game until it does and you must wait. (Metal gear solid 4 throwback anyone) Least in that game you had to wait every chapter as it deleted and installed new data before updates was done to fix that cause of the low storage ps3 system sold with at the time. There hardly any room to download games or dlc with install data. That why i buy the game at retail so i don't have to use up storage i can use for other things. Just so confusing. :wtf:

chartube12 · May 27, 2017

The empty boxes are 6 dollars. You can already but them on amazon, bestbuy.com and walmart. This news is already a week and a half old.

The reason to keep the digital the same price as physical as to do with the retail stores. Walmart, target gamestop and a a few others, said they wouldn't sell PS4s and Xbones if they were digital only and games weren't resellable. Nintendo said official physical and digital retail prices would be mostly synchronized on the switch to keep retailers happy. Digital copies currently won't be cheaper then physical. GS and walmart said they wouldn't carry the switch if digital copies were sold at a discount. If it wasn't for that digital copies would diffintely be cheaper. I imagine once drone deliveries become cheaper, proven to work and be safe, the big 3 would sell consoles and accessories exclusively through amazon drone delivery.

RandomUser · May 27, 2017

The solution to this dilemma, when servers are down:
Switchway by Gateway team

. Would like to be able to run backup, at some point during and after the life of the Switch.
I always like to buy physical copies of games, it makes it tangible and saves you a whole lot of headache when things go belly-up. I have read many threads on GBATemp when their console went south on them, digital only users are royally fucked, without help from Nintendo. Physical is always the best solution especially the way Nintendo handles these digital distribution.

Bonestorm · May 27, 2017

Won't buy any game if it's not physical.

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Quantumcat said:
The fact that download codes have zero resale value makes the download version effectively way more expensive. And then what happens when the Switch servers are shut down in 2030? As soon as your Switch dies you've lost the game, whereas owners of the physical cartridge can keep playing the game forever.

Splatoon is pretty much a online only game..so for this specific game it won't matter. In 20 years there won't be a Splatoon 2 server anyway

Ryccardo · May 27, 2017

Not news, Nintendo Pocket Football Club (3DS) was already released this way

Quantumcat said:
And then what happens when the Switch servers are shut down in 2030? As soon as your Switch dies you've lost the game, whereas owners of the physical cartridge can keep playing the game forever.

You can pay again for a Virtual Console-branded port to your brand new system

Or install a pirate copy (again, 2030)

Quantumcat · May 27, 2017

Bonestorm said:
Won't buy any game if it's not physical.

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Splatoon is pretty much a online only game..so for this specific game it won't matter. In 20 years there won't be a Splatoon 2 server anyway

That's a good point (unless people set up custom servers in the future).

Ryccardo · May 27, 2017

sarkwalvein said:
(if the eShop was at least as good as the Xbox Store where you can buy games even from your phone and start the download/installation process remotely comfortably even while taking a dump).

It is (at least on 3DS/WiiU) since many years for codes, and since about a year (the new Club Nintendo) for actually browsing and buying with a browser

smf · May 27, 2017

Hells Malice said:
It's just a way for them to save costs and not pass it on to their buyers.

How do you know that they aren't just trying to reduce their losses so they don't have to pass them on to their buyers?

ATofix · May 31, 2017

But now I can't lick it!?

Halvorsen · Jun 1, 2017

That's good. Carts are pretty terrible but the box is like a trophy, so for every game I buy I have to go eBay the game box alongside of it.

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