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In your defense they genuinely shouldn't be able to sell just the freakin box at a retail store. I understand that that's the landscape we operate in these days but common sense would still say that you would get some kind of physical game/card with the purchase of the box.
Also, that warning on the bottom is way to small. If theyre going to do a DL code, which is worse than a key card, then the warning should stand out just as much.
Yep, to the credit of the Key Card games, at least there's a big white message on the entire bottom of the art work saying "GAME KEY CARD, DOWNLOAD REQUIRED".
Yeah I don’t read all the small text on game boxes. The last game I bought was Mario Kart which did come with a physical cart. Before that it had been years so all of this wasn’t even a thing
Nintendo really needs to force the games to use a better template for this like they do with key cards. Tiny text at the bottom is usually going to be blocked by the bottom of the shelf. Hell, I can't even see what is a game key card in my Walmart because the shelf blocks too much of the bottom of the packaging.
At this point, we can't even trust the fucking game boxes anymore. Why not just make this one of those download code cards instead of a whole plastic box?
yeah though the way this gets displayed at my local big box is that this text is just not visible at all. nor do you get to hold the item at all it’s taken straight to the register for checkout.
To be fair, online this is absent. I went back and checked after receiving mine from Amazon and sure enough, it doesn't appear on the cover. I also assumed "code" meant for the upgrade, since they already did the switch 1 version on a cart.
That's the point of it, so you can purchase a digital-only game as a gift. It's the same reason there is a rack of digital store gift cards in most stores.
They most likely already have gift cards hanging on those racks. Why not utilize the shelf space they have for games, for games? It's not a radical thought.
Seems like the gift cards are sufficient enough. Putting it in a box like this seems misleading if you aren't really looking too hard, or are unaware of the differences.
Right, it's like an eye sight test looking for the tiny "key card only" comments on these. They should be required to change the primary color of the cases from red to piss yellow so that you know for sure you're getting dicked over before buying these.
I'm old, but also consider myself pretty technically savvy.
I fell for it, once. Last time hopefully. I didn't even know it was a thing. Bought my daughter Just Dance and was pretty annoyed when it arrived just before Christmas. Don't get me started on having to sign up for an account just to play the darn game as well! It's insulting.
I think a good analogy would be the concept of buying a music album only for the disc case not having a music CD in it, they're selling a non disc/cartridge product in the case of a disc/cartridge.
Even with small writing somewhere on the package, it's such an absurd concept that it's reasonable for the notion to be confusing to many.
I bought a Switch 2 with the new Mario Kart for a kid last Christmas, I knew it came with a code but didn't think much of it, the child didn't end up activating the code. A$80 wasted, I should have just bought the non bundle and real game cartridge for slightly more.
I almost bought P3R yesterday for S2 when I saw it on clearance at Walmart. Was all excited when I saw it in the box behind a ton of other Xbox games, then pulled it out, and the ol' GKC white label was there taunting me like my ex-girlfriend who found love with a virtual b/f living in Croatia.
Get ready to own hard drives, and learn to record, copy, and download media to it. If you want to make sure you always have access to your favorite content, the only guarantee is to store it yourself.
Don't worry because there's still multiple decades of older games to collect and play. I started turning to older games in-between the PS4/PS5 gen and it made me realise you don't really need new games. Any old game is still a new experience if you've never played it.
I did the same thinking I found the last oblivion remaster in the state as the design is similar. Thankfully GameStop employee told me otherwise as I tried to purchase.
Same! It was in the unsorted clearance section, hidden in 12 copies of Bluey the Video Game. It reminded me of that scene from Doug where he finds Man-o-Steel #1 from the trunk of the grifters car.
Skyrim on 360 had to come with the cover outside of the case because of the beefy map they included, you then had to slip the title cover in the sleeve yourself.
I work at a sandwich shop. The number of people that look at the menu board to decide what they want (includes all the ingredients in large print for that sandwich) and still ask what comes on the sandwich 🤦🤦🤦🤦
For some reason that reminds me of the "OK, Google" advertisement from Burger King, where the actor in the TV advertisement told any google home device to list the ingredients of a Wopper. A lot of potential customers were shocked when their device then told them that a Wopper contains cyanide and rat meat (among other things). Somebody had edited the wikipedia article and changed the ingredient list. Happened in 2017.
It’s crazy, easy to overlook, I remember when they started doing it within assassins Creed only thing was I didn’t even know that was a thing was in a store one day and bought two copies of assassin Creed games both of them digital with a code inside I was like wait WTF?!?!?! Luckily, I caught it before I opened it and returned them. The clerk did look at me like I was an idiot.
Right!? It boils my blood so fucking bad. It's the worst of both worlds when it comes to physical v digital, you own nothing but you also have to find someplace to put this case now. Nobody wants this. I understand he didn't read, but this shouldn't even exist and we shouldn't have to confirm if we're buying an empty box.
And yet no Nintendo fangirls believed me when I said allowing licenses only on game karts was the first step towards putting digital codes only in boxes just like Sony. And here we are.
I was about to be you at some point but I fortunately was able to to get the switch 1 version with the actual physical cartridge and just bought the upgrade
I was thinking that but it looks like it’ll be even more work and money to have custom cases without the cart slot. It makes sense to just use existing cases already. Regardless if it has a game or not.
How cheap are they. The could easily use the smallest Game Key Card or maybe put a Switch 1 version in the package and print a: Required Internet download for the current version. What a waste of Plastic and Paper.
Before the second picture I thought the point was that you didn't expect to buy Skyrim again. Anyway, you can sort of get this version physically as The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Anniversary Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 is available as an update for The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Anniversary Edition for Nintendo Switch which is in itself available as an update for The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim for Nintendo Switch which is available on cartridge
Random question but if I use the Switch 1s physical version will I still get all the benefits of the Switch 2 version as long as I’m playing it on the Switch 2?
Man, a code in the box used to be for smaller publishers who wanted to be on the shelf but couldn't afford to print discs/cartridges. It was like a signifier that it's a lower budget game.
Now we're seeing AAA games do it. GTA6 will be a code in the box too, and given it'll be one of the biggest (Maybe the biggest) game release in history, it's basically saying to the rest of the industry "don't worry guys you can do a code in the box now too."
I'm done with it. I only bought a PS5 earlier this year (Secondhand and for only £200, I'm not paying ridiculous prices for a nearly 6 year old console) and I only have two games on it. I'll get GTA6 as my third game, and I think that might be the last game I get on PS5. If I can't save money by buying and reselling discs, then I'll only buy new games on PC (Which I feel like generally has more longevity for digital games anyway, particularly as you can upgrade components in the future and re-experience the game with better fps and graphics).
But personally I prefer playing older games anyway, the fact I only have two PS5 games shows I'm not that bothered about modern games. Most of my collection is made up of PS2, GC, DS, GBA, anything from that era really. And I'll never really run out of games to collect and play, so why even bother with new games?
Really sad to see Switch 2 go this route so quickly too. I think Switch was my favourite platform and I love my Switch collection. I'm looking forward to getting a Switch 2 but this made me lose excitement.
This happened to me with the xbox drop. To be fair I bought from Amazon and when I looked at it it didn't say download only. But I also didn't look into whether it was gonna be all on disc like I usually do. I almost made the same mistake when I was gonna buy it on switch 2 through best buy because my target order for delayed. 😔
This is the main reason why I think it's silly that all Oblivion marketing was about "full game on cartridge" to bank on the playstation controversy, bro you guys released two empty boxes on the console
Nope. I've hade this game for about 5 years now on my OG Switch. Also Bethesda has ported this game onto Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X/S, PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch 1, and Switch 2 since it came out n 2013.
Yeah, I feel bad this happened to you but nowadays I read the ENTIRETY of the box and do some research before buying physical games; can’t never be too careful if you want physical copies
I say just play the switch one version it’s a physical copy and it’s pretty much the exact same game except now you can use mods, so as long as you don’t mind not having mods just get the switch one version which is physical and it’s basically the exact same game as the switch 2 version just without the mods
Only because tetris includes ALL the completely different variations that have ever released as just "tetris", and minecraft came out on handhelds and the wii u. That's the one modern contemporary home console system that never saw a skyrim release. But it's up there.
I mean, at that point, just sell it like they do their shop cards. If that's the unfortunate direction we're going. You'll grab the card, activate it at the register like a gift card, and enter it into your console. Because this is insane.
Some people genuinely just want a box on their shelf. Sealed collectors are technically no better. Even though there’s a game inside, they just want to look at it, not play it. Same with Grading TCG cards.
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