Lego City Undercover Switch cover mentions 13GB download [Up3: Full game on card]
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This is the first time I am saying this literally and not sarcastically:
Pre-order Cancelled.
I have been a big defender of the Switch. And of Nintendo in general. But they should not allow companies to do this. What is the point of having a cart at all if there is nothing on it. QD Heroes I and II proves that the carts are big enough. This is just WB trying to rip-off customers to save a few bucks (on a full-priced $60 port of a 4 year old game). And I am mad that Nintendo is letting them do this. It sets a terrible precedent.
I was going to buy this because my daughter and I loved the WiiU version (aside from the loading screens). I was willing to cough up another $60. I might be a sucker but I'm not that big of a sucker.
I will no longer buy this or any other game with such consumer unfriendly "features".
And I will encourage others to do the same.
Pre-order Cancelled.
I have been a big defender of the Switch. And of Nintendo in general. But they should not allow companies to do this. What is the point of having a cart at all if there is nothing on it. QD Heroes I and II proves that the carts are big enough. This is just WB trying to rip-off customers to save a few bucks (on a full-priced $60 port of a 4 year old game). And I am mad that Nintendo is letting them do this. It sets a terrible precedent.
I was going to buy this because my daughter and I loved the WiiU version (aside from the loading screens). I was willing to cough up another $60. I might be a sucker but I'm not that big of a sucker.
I will no longer buy this or any other game with such consumer unfriendly "features".
And I will encourage others to do the same.
Hmm ok. I was just going on what someone else told me. Someone said the disc was basically a demo and required a patch. But I'll stop mentioning that if it isn't true. Never played myself.
Cuningas de Häme
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So, why LC:U needs only 8,2GB if bought from Eshop? European Eshop here, so languages take the additional 1GB.
Did anyone answer to that one guy from page 1 or 2 where he said that he sees a tad over 7GB in his Eshop?
Did anyone answer to that one guy from page 1 or 2 where he said that he sees a tad over 7GB in his Eshop?
I should have known that WB is - again - shooting themselves in the foot with their launch on a new Nintendo console.
It is expected at this point, sadly. Only thing missing is ceasing support in about a year with regards to missing sales while pulling all these shenanigans (remember Injustice support, Arkham Origins etc. on Wii U). I refuse to believe that they couldnt easily eat up the cost of a bigger cart when indie publishers can even stomach the smaller cart costs (Nicalis, Frozenbyte etc.). Id imagine Nintendo would have done several (!) calculations with different sizes, budgets and publisher strategies in mind before finally deciding on the cart medium. Things like this must have been known risks that had to be planned for.
Would this be any other publisher Id equally blame Nintendo, but with WB, from my experience, I see most of the blame with WB, especially in the case of a 4 year old, half Nintendo-funded port.
It is expected at this point, sadly. Only thing missing is ceasing support in about a year with regards to missing sales while pulling all these shenanigans (remember Injustice support, Arkham Origins etc. on Wii U). I refuse to believe that they couldnt easily eat up the cost of a bigger cart when indie publishers can even stomach the smaller cart costs (Nicalis, Frozenbyte etc.). Id imagine Nintendo would have done several (!) calculations with different sizes, budgets and publisher strategies in mind before finally deciding on the cart medium. Things like this must have been known risks that had to be planned for.
Would this be any other publisher Id equally blame Nintendo, but with WB, from my experience, I see most of the blame with WB, especially in the case of a 4 year old, half Nintendo-funded port.
Gamezone
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The gameplay is limited while the game is installing, but that`s it.
Cuningas de Häme
Member
Is that mentioned somewhere in the Eshop? Because that is outright lying about the space requirements.
I think that WB is so very scummy because there is no shadow of a doubt that Nintendo didn't pay them something to make the original Nintendo exclusive. Won't be buying anything from them anytime soon (unless some facts emerge that will make me change my mind).
Hopefully some games "journalist" can get an answer about cart prices too.
TheMagician
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This is the sort of post that appears when you have no idea about the hardware you're talking about.
Extra storage is via Micro SD.
That's a very unfortunate typo, please correct it.
Walter White
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Gamezone
Gold Member
always crazy bacon
Banned
Didnt Ridge Racer for PS Vita try and pull this bullshit, but with DLC?
Waluigilicious
Member
Not like this!
Gamezone
Gold Member
What was this even supposed to say!? :O
Yikes! Please fix that.
Could you imagine if Nintendo denied it though?
GAF would complain about Nintendo NOT getting it and blame Nintendo. And As WB would never tell us the real reason it weren't coming to Switch...everyone would feel it's Nintendo's fault.
Alethebeer
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B is near N in the keyboard.
FearMyWrench
Member
There's a letter right next to N that tells a much different story.
always crazy bacon
Banned
There's a Pulp Fiction joke here just waiting to be imaged macroed.
Waluigilicious
Member
Oh! bigger!
How the hell did autocorrect explain the choice of words here?
Gamezone
Gold Member
It would be way easier for us to deal with.
A typo would be fine as they are close together...
...but autocorrect implies you've used the word before! :O
Lmao.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
racist autocorrect duh
Machine learning.
LOL, called out! Daaamn
I don't think that would upset anyone, if it was clear what you were buying.
Yes the box has "Internet required" written on it, but it definitely isn't obvious or common practice...
TheMagician
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The jump up in cost to a 256GB iPhone is huge.
No way they could charge that much extra for Switch as its already more expensive than the other consoles.
I'd be interested how this will be handled with larger games (if they come to switch).
If some pubs aren't willing to eat the cost on a 20GB game i wonder how current gen AAA games are handled.
For example Fifa 17 is 44GB on PS4
We know some version of Fifa is coming to Switch
Will this be a lower quality port (potentially with last gen assets?), is EA gonna pull a WB and require you to download parts of the game or are they gonna use some magical compression?
If some pubs aren't willing to eat the cost on a 20GB game i wonder how current gen AAA games are handled.
For example Fifa 17 is 44GB on PS4
We know some version of Fifa is coming to Switch
Will this be a lower quality port (potentially with last gen assets?), is EA gonna pull a WB and require you to download parts of the game or are they gonna use some magical compression?
I meant typo of course. Dayum.
Phone producers charge a hefty premium for more storage, far above manufacturing/purchasing costs.
D.Lo
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Has anyone 100% confirmed this? Actually got the game and seen if it can be played from the cart? Is it possible it does play from the cart? Right now it seems this is all based on a box photo?
Unlikely to not be true, just wondering if there is a source.
Unlikely to not be true, just wondering if there is a source.
For sure. I actually sort of feel uncomfortable about having a cart that is useless by itself. But download only? Whatever I guess.
If we were to go for absurd, masturbatory fantasies it'd be amazing to see a huge m.2 SSD in there. But that's probably still bull it up (though why not go with a huge display while we're having insane fantasies anyway?)
Gamezone
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I don`t think anyone actually tested this, but it`s very obvious.
Waluigilicious
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What do you mean? The game on Wii U was 20gb whereas this one is 7, and it says internet required right on the cover.
My 256GB iPhone 7 cost me nearly $1000. My Switch was $299.
And even if the Swich came with 256GB memory, this practice of putting a fraction of the game on the cart is garbage.
Yea, a lot of people keep forgetting that the cost of the phone is subsidized by a contract usually. You go buy an unlocked phone with 256GB, it'll cost you far, far more
Wasn't this a statement made by an NoE rep, so we don't really know if this policy applies to other regions, but I'm sure someone will bring up
Which costs the same on both the eShop and in retail in Europe. The whole 'add a keyring' theory doesn't apply here.
Waluigilicious
Member
Do you have a Wii U? If you have access to one just buy the game used play it and sell it if you want to play it that badly.
For everyone talking about the Switch internal storage, that really isn't the problem here. The actual problem is that you are buying a physical retail game which appears to have all the disadvantages of a digital version (requires large download, takes up space on your storage, will not be preserved if servers go down eventually), without any of the benefits (can be launched without a card). It's stupid as hell.