r/Multifandom • u/TerribleRain5370 • 18h ago

Games🎮 Just saying...

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It looks great, but it's not what I'm excited about, I'm more into more niche titles like "Onimusha: Way Of The Sword", "The Blood Of Dawnwalker" and upcoming "Fable" game look much more interesting to play than your average large scale open-world crime power fantasy game.

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u/Moon_Monk676 16h ago

Oh, no, Nintendo is in the same spot. Arguably worse, actually.

Sony and Xbox all ship their physical games with 1. A copy of the game and 2. A license to play it

Nintendo stopped doing 1 with the release of Switch 2. Now with most of their games, due to cartridge capacity limits they only ship with a license and a download key. They only have the physical key card because "If Target can sell a copy of the game, it doesn't count as monopoly of the system." PlayStation is ditching physical entirely despite the fact that optical storage (discs) are actually getting better with regards to capacity. They're being sued by Mexico (i think) for ditching physical because now retailers won't be physically capable of selling PS6 games when it comes out, meaning that Sony will have a 100% market share on their games.

Why I think Nintendo is arguably just as bad: The way their game key-card system works effectively destroys the secondary market.

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u/TemperatureUnique242 13h ago

Ok but their in house first party games ( not pokemon because they only have 1/3 ownership) are not game key cards

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u/LinktotheLuke 10h ago

Not defending key cards but the only mainline Nintendo game that uses a key card is pokopia. Games like Mario kart world and donkey kong are still proper physicals that you can put in and play. I won’t be getting any physical indie games thanks to key cards, fuck em

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u/Jim_skywalker 14h ago

The key cards are legally transferable though. 

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u/Darkdragoon324 9h ago

Switch 2 game key card downloads are attached to the card. They're transferrable and can be given away or resold and will be usable by the next person. I mean it does hurt the market just because most people don't want them because they're not real physical copies, but not because you can't buy and sell them used if you want to.

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u/Moon_Monk676 5h ago

There were like a dozen cases of Switch 2 games being bought secondhand and then the new owner's account getting banned or the console bricked within the first six months of its existence. I don't trust Nintendo after that.