Lego City Undercover Switch cover mentions 13GB download [Up3: Full game on card]
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Oh god no, that would be awful.
Gamezone
Gold Member
The only news I need is a statement from Nintendo banning this.
Why?
Jaded Alyx
Member
Where are you fitting an HDD?
Also, the less moving parts the better. An HDD being moved around like that? Recipe for disaster.
Micro SD is fast enough and cheaper / more expandable than SSD (which would be the only plausible option for a portable system).
Yup i agree, this could turn into being a big issue if they don't with future releases.
I hope that's not what they do because it is partially on them for having such little storage and such higher costs for the carts
Gaiaknight
Member
where the hell would they fit a hdd inside the tablet have you seen the inside of that thing its packed to the brim.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Umm... that defeats the purpose of being "handheld"
Another switch version most likely would go the route of more portability at a cheaper price point no?
Wouldn't be surprised at a 2DS type of Switch rather than go SwitchPro
Let's not act like WB couldn't afford a bigger cart in this scenario. The margins on this game are automatically bigger because it's a port of a 4 year old game.
Was excited for this, but the fact that only 1/3 of the game is on the cart is gonna make me pass until a deep sale. I was already feeling a little eh after hearing that it would require two sets of joycons for multiplayer, and that it runs at 720p... All that for $60. Yeaaaa... no.
That would raise the power consumption and lower the battery life in handheld mode. Sony ditched the UMD drive on their handhelds, and Apple switched to flash from mini HDDs. There was a reason for that. Hardware failures would also be more common.
That would raise the power consumption and lower the battery life in handheld mode. Sony ditched the UMD drive on their handhelds, and Apple switched to flash from mini HDDs. There was a reason for that. Hardware failures would also be more common.
FunkyDealer
Banned
And it's a damn full-price release of an old game as well. You'd think they could swallow the cost of a large game-card with that price.
Gaiaknight
Member
the origianl wii u version was 20GB
The_Endgamer
Member
Just boycott the shizzle out of this game. Simple as.
Smarter idea would've been to just put it download only to avoid this mess but looks like the Lego/WB guys wanted some more shelf space for their brand.
EDIT: The resolution for Nintendo would be to whack a big ugly sticker saying consumers need a massive download + internet requirement to play the game. That should deter publishers from making this practice common. It's simply false advertising if this became a tend and the only requirement was to put small labelling to spell this out for people.
Smarter idea would've been to just put it download only to avoid this mess but looks like the Lego/WB guys wanted some more shelf space for their brand.
EDIT: The resolution for Nintendo would be to whack a big ugly sticker saying consumers need a massive download + internet requirement to play the game. That should deter publishers from making this practice common. It's simply false advertising if this became a tend and the only requirement was to put small labelling to spell this out for people.
milanbaros
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If Nintendo were to eventually release a revision could they boost internal memory to please developers or does it just make more sense to basically require an ad card?
travisbickle
Member
This is bullshit if the game won't start without the download.
I remember this was "brainstormed" by the Forza devs before the release of the XB1, to release an unplayable disc version without an online download. Of course MS fanboys defended it but the wider game community called it out for the bullshit it was and the devs soon backed down.
I remember this was "brainstormed" by the Forza devs before the release of the XB1, to release an unplayable disc version without an online download. Of course MS fanboys defended it but the wider game community called it out for the bullshit it was and the devs soon backed down.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Forza 5 was developed while their always online vision was still there. Haven't been an issue since.
Puyo Puyo Tetris.
Marty Chinn
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Uh, this is pretty standard with Sony and MS too.
Fess
Member
Well from the sound of it they're actually trying to sell us only disc 1 of the ff7 remake and then they'll sell the other discs later on
The_Endgamer
Member
This is common practice outside of sales prices though literally across the board. Physical retailers wouldn't stock Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo games if that was the case.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
It's kinda fascinating how many people are trying to blame the Switch's small internal storage for this...that's not the issue at all here folks.
So let me get this straight...
They thought "Let's sell an incomplete game on a cartridge instead of making our customers pay more."?
That's a bold strategy.
Yeah, this is down to:
- WB wanting to save money by using a smaller cartridge.
- Nintendo wanting Physical and Digital Prices the same (a rumour still as I'm sure there are some outliers).
They thought "Let's sell an incomplete game on a cartridge instead of making our customers pay more."?
That's a bold strategy.
Yeah, this is down to:
- WB wanting to save money by using a smaller cartridge.
- Nintendo wanting Physical and Digital Prices the same (a rumour still as I'm sure there are some outliers).
Gamezone
Gold Member
Pay more..? Thus old game is 60 bucks.
This is shitty practice, I'm mostly going digital on the Switch because I dislike physical media for portable systems but going to skip this one regardless. Hopefully a lot of people do too and this doesn't become a thing.
Switch is your first internet connected console?
matrix-cat
Member
Sixty dollar up-res of a four year old game and they're pinching pennies on the cartridge costs. Sounds like WB all right.
Marty Chinn
Member
It's not even an up-res port.
Maintenance
Member
More fascinating is watching people defend it.
It's just irrelevant to this post.
The issue isn't that just that a game has a patch. It's that the game has a huge MANDATORY patch purely because they were too cheap to put the whole game on the cart.
Regardless of how you feel about switchs intenral storage, it's crappy for a publisher to do this.
Last time it happened was for that all-mighty
poo
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
I can't imagine why someone would defend WB Games only including a third of the game on the cartridge. That's just asking for problems in the future.
TheBaldEmperor
Member
Looks like I'm canceling my preorder. I played it on Wii U and was down to play it again. Maybe I'll buy it digital 3 years from now when it isn't $60.
Smooth Operator
Member
Usually your computer have more than 32GB of storage, an ethernet port, and the habit of using Steam
.Marty Chinn
Member
I'm more surprised at people giving Nintendo a pass on this.
The telltale games are also kinda guilty. Some of the physical ones (batman for example) are released with only one episode on the disc and then a code for the season pass. So that sucks too.
I don't mind that as much because at least it's episodic. But I still think they should just wait until they're all done.
But crap like this and thps 5 are complete crap. Not sure what the reasoning was with thps. But obviously the reasoning here is worthy of all the hate.
Z..
Member
Does this usually work?
Gamezone
Gold Member
Telltale release their games before they are done. Lego City is done.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Tony Hawk was completely on the disc. Everything else is just a rumor. On the other hand the game was very buggy, but that's something completely different.