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[Deerock71]

I think I've just discovered their golden ticket. They know they have a high percentage of physical collectors on the Switch. They have all these low GB game cards on offer there. On Switch 2, they've got the path of key cards or 64GB game cards.

For lots of old games, you could go the Switch route. Throw a bone to the 100 million plus players Nintendo alludes to frequently. They don't want to abandon a pool that has bought in excess of 1.3 BILLION pieces of software. Get Limited Run, Super Rare Games, et al, and give them a chance to produce some physical copies.

Enter...the Switch 2. Say a game does well physically on Switch. Offer a $10 from the publishers of said game to upgrade to Switch 2 bells and whistles.

See how this is nothing but good for Nintendo and publishers yet? It doesn't bring new publishers on board; hell, that's what Switch 2 key cards are for. On the seller side...everybody's happy. Kind of sucks on the consumer side, though.

ALL RIGHT. Now that I have a few minutes of no multi-tasking, my whole point was global domination of physical media. I realize after reading and NOT specifying that in my OP, it may have, in fact, been a poor hoice of wor. I was showing the pathway they could have to continue to be the LAST BASTION of physical media in the ever-digitized realm.

 

[DryvBy]

As an English teacher, this sentence should be structured to reveal the overall point you're making.

>I think I've just discovered their golden ticket. [insert your overall point here] They know they have a high percentage of physical collectors on the Switch. They have all these low GB game cards on offer there. On Switch 2, they've got the path of key cards or 64GB game cards.

I'm confused on what the point you're making automatically because of the lack of this. Are you saying sell key cards and then sell LRG later?


Report card: D-

Do gooder in the future.

 

[Zacfoldor]

For me physical isn't about having the game on the cart. Rather, having a physical license that is not tied to my online account in case I get banned is the reason for physical.

I'm a physical collector but I don't do it because I like shiny things. I do it because I want to diversify my library and not put all my eggs in one basket.

It leaves me with the question, which will last longer throughout the annals of time. My physical license or the digital store front I download my games from?

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

 

[TintoConCasera]

As an English teacher, this sentence should be structured to reveal the overall point you're making.

>I think I've just discovered their golden ticket. [insert your overall point here] They know they have a high percentage of physical collectors on the Switch. They have all these low GB game cards on offer there. On Switch 2, they've got the path of key cards or 64GB game cards.

I'm confused on what the point you're making is automatically because of the lack of this. Are you saying sell key cards and then sell LRG later?


Report card: D-

Do gooder in the future.

 

[hemo memo]

As an English teacher, this sentence should be structured to reveal the overall point you're making.

>I think I've just discovered their golden ticket. [insert your overall point here] They know they have a high percentage of physical collectors on the Switch. They have all these low GB game cards on offer there. On Switch 2, they've got the path of key cards or 64GB game cards.

I'm confused on what the point you're making automatically because of the lack of this. Are you saying sell key cards and then sell LRG later?


Report card: D-

Do gooder in the future.

I say C+

The ideas are present, but the organization is somewhat loose. Paragraphing could be more focused, and transitions between ideas are often weak or implied rather than explicit. There's a general flow, but a more logical progression of points would improve clarity. The introduction works, but the abrupt ending detracts from the overall structural coherence.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Gigabowser threads make more sense than this.

 

[ssringo]

 

[Kacho]

 

[spookyfish]

Hmmm. I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi.

 

[Wooxsvan]

 

[jshackles]

Weekend GAF is here a day early it seems

 

[Deerock71]

Sorry. Multitasking.

 

[Little Mac]

Google:

As of May 15, 2025, the market caps of the major gaming companies are: Microsoft (MSFT) at $3.363 trillion, Sony (SONY) at $151.34 billion, and Nintendo (NTDOY) at $92.39 billion.

 

[DryvBy]

Sorry. Multitasking.

Well can you fix this up? So far all we hear is

 

[Skifi28]

Gigabowser threads make more sense than this.

 

[Deerock71]

Google:

As of May 15, 2025, the market caps of the major gaming companies are: Microsoft (MSFT) at $3.363 trillion, Sony (SONY) at $151.34 billion, and Nintendo (NTDOY) at $92.39 billion.

Everyone knows Microsoft and Sony are bigger companies. I'm actually a little shocked how close Sony and Nintendo are based on those numbers.

 

[hemo memo]

 

[LordOcidax]

Google:

As of May 15, 2025, the market caps of the major gaming companies are: Microsoft (MSFT) at $3.363 trillion, Sony (SONY) at $151.34 billion, and Nintendo (NTDOY) at $92.39 billion.

Damn, Xbox is winning by a lot…

 

[Punished Miku]

Physical is dead. Nintendo is just parading around the plastic tombstones for a bit longer.

Physical is $10 more on Switch.
PS5 Pro / PS6 is +$100 for the disc drive.

It's fully and completely dead. Physical was literally dead already prior to any of that, and now that people have to manually opt in and spend significantly more money to maintain physical it's toast.

It will not be much of a factor at all for any system for the next 7-8 years, and then it will be gone completely.

 

[Signalis]

I think I've just discovered their golden ticket. They know they have a high percentage of physical collectors on the Switch. They have all these low GB game cards on offer there. On Switch 2, they've got the path of key cards or 64GB game cards.

For lots of old games, you could go the Switch route. Throw a bone to the 100 million plus players Nintendo alludes to frequently. They don't want to abandon a pool that has bought in excess of 1.3 BILLION pieces of software. Get Limited Run, Super Rare Games, et al, and give them a chance to produce some physical copies.

Enter...the Switch 2. Say a game does well physically on Switch. Offer a $10 from the publishers of said game to upgrade to Switch 2 bells and whistles.

See how this is nothing but good for Nintendo and publishers yet? It doesn't bring new publishers on board; hell, that's what Switch 2 key cards are for. On the seller side...everybody's happy. Kind of sucks on the consumer side, though.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and be a bit cheeky. Your post does suit your avatar: "Very poor choice of words"

 

[Deerock71]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and be a bit cheeky. Your post does suit your avatar: "Very poor choice of words"

You misspelled it, though.

 

[bender]

Physical is dead. Nintendo is just parading around the plastic tombstones for a bit longer.

Physical is $10 more on Switch.
PS5 Pro / PS6 is +$100 for the disc drive.

It's fully and completely dead. Physical was literally dead already prior to any of that, and now that people have to manually opt in and spend significantly more money to maintain physical it's toast.

It will not be much of a factor at all for any system for the next 7-8 years, and then it will be gone completely.

While I don't disagree with your sentiment about the direction we are heading, I do wonder if this opens up an opportunity in the short term for the likes of Super Rare Games to offer games previously only available via Game Key Cart/Digital on a full cartridge. Maybe not at launch and possibly for a premium, but I bet there is a market there.

 

[GigaBowser]

Gigabowser threads make more sense than this.

thank you my friends arm the spirit of gaming

Social Opinion Community  Post in thread 'NEOGAF POSTERS OF THE YEAR AWARD'

Apr 16, 2025

You might be too modest to say so GigaBowser but it's clearly you. Keep up the good work.

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[ResurrectedContrarian]

If this thread is about physical vs digital, then Nintendo is a different position than other companies.

It's the family market that makes it that way. You want to be able to give a physical game to a kid and have him play it on the device, without enabling internet. Many of us as parents immediately shut off all networked features for devices until the kid is at least a teenager. There's also the reality that a lot of the games the younger kids will get are from relatives at Christmas etc, and you want the kid to pop in the game from grandma and play it immediately on the way home, the way God intended. You want to download it on grandma's awful wifi?

Digital sucks for family / kid devices.

 

[kevboard]

As an English teacher

I'm confused on what the point you're making automatically because of the lack of this.

you are missing an is between making and automatically.
also even if we add in an is there, the sentence should be restructure to:
I'm automatically confused on what the point you're making is, because of the lack of this.
or even better:
Because of the lack of this, I'm automatically confused about the point you're trying to make.

As someone who speaks English as a self taught second language,
I'll give you a D- due to bad grammar and a weird sentence structure.

 

[nikos]

As an English teacher

I'm confused on what the point you're making automatically because of the lack of this.

u wot m8

 

[Sebastian1295]

I read this thread 3 times in a row and i still have no idea what you're talking about man. I think nintendo installed an A.I chip into you and it malfunctioned somehow, which lead us to this post being formed.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

As an English teacher, this sentence should be structured to reveal the overall point you're making.

>I think I've just discovered their golden ticket. [insert your overall point here] They know they have a high percentage of physical collectors on the Switch. They have all these low GB game cards on offer there. On Switch 2, they've got the path of key cards or 64GB game cards.

I'm confused on what the point you're making automatically because of the lack of this. Are you saying sell key cards and then sell LRG later?


Report card: D-

Do gooder in the future.

As a Portuguese dude i fear for the day i create a topic and this is somehow one of the first answers i get, lmao.

 

[DryvBy]

you are missing an is between making and automatically.
also even if we add in an is there, the sentence should be restructure to:
I'm automatically confused on what the point you're making is, because of the lack of this.
or even better:
Because of the lack of this, I'm automatically confused about the point you're trying to make.

As someone who speaks English as a self taught second language,
I'll give you a D- due to bad grammar and a weird sentence structure.

But do you have a degree? I think you not have one.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I can definitely see a cross gen period where the game sells well on Switch because of physical carts and then users upgrade on Switch 2 digitally for 10 bucks. No way publishers are going to abandon the massive Switch userbase this early on. Retro games and smaller indies I fully expect to be released on Switch even in 10 years.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

This brings me back to the Wii U GameFAQs board, reading all the theories and manifestos about how Nintendo would come to dominate the generation.

 

[Deerock71]

While I don't disagree with your sentiment about the direction we are heading, I do wonder if this opens up an opportunity in the short term for the likes of Super Rare Games to offer games previously only available via Game Key Cart/Digital on a full cartridge. Maybe not at launch and possibly for a premium, but I bet there is a market there.

This is what I'm alluding to.

 

[kevboard]

But do you have a degree? I think you not have one.

I don't need one,

 

[Signalis]

You misspelled it, though.

You mean misspelt?

 

[jshackles]

I can definitely see a cross gen period where the game sells well on Switch because of physical carts and then users upgrade on Switch 2 digitally for 10 bucks. No way publishers are going to abandon the massive Switch userbase this early on. Retro games and smaller indies I fully expect to be released on Switch even in 10 years.

Limited Run (the fuckers) did say in an interview at PAX that their numbered releases for Switch 2 would be required to be fully on the cartridge:

Article:

When speaking with their marketing representative at PAX East 2025, they confirmed that any Limited Run numbered release for the Switch 2 will contain the full game on the cartridge, aka. a true physical release. Game released as a partnership (and therefore, not a numbered release) may be published as a game-key card, leaving the decision to the third party.

Source: https://bossrush.net/2025/05/11/pax-east-2025-news-limited-run-clears-the-air-on-switch-2-physical-games/

So this will 100% be a thing, though it's difficult to say how many "numbered" releases we'll actually see

 

[LordOcidax]

OP, Switch is going to dominate the hardware sales until the next gen comes out. After that everything can happen.

 

[Cornbread78]

 

[Roman Empire]

Me after reading the thread.

 

[Topher]

Ah man.......GAF is getting that pre-console launch smell again.

 

[GymWolf]

That's why most sensitives are considered a scam nowadays.

 

[Gambit2483]

Switch and Switch 2 are definitely going to become the last bastion for physical gaming (though debatable on how you see Game-key cards).

Backwards compatibility will become more of a boon for Switch 2 than any other console before, at least in its first couple years.

 

[Deerock71]

I added this to the OP for clarity:

ALL RIGHT. Now that I have a few minutes of no multi-tasking, my whole point was global domination of physical media. I realize after reading and NOT specifying that in my OP, it may have, in fact, been a poor hoice of wor. I was showing the pathway they could have to continue to be the LAST BASTION of physical media in the ever-digitized realm.

 

[Bitstream]

I added this to the OP for clarity:

ALL RIGHT. Now that I have a few minutes of no multi-tasking, my whole point was global domination of physical media. I realize after reading and NOT specifying that in my OP, it may have, in fact, been a poor hoice of wor. I was showing the pathway they could have to continue to be the LAST BASTION of physical media in the ever-digitized realm.

And youd' be wrong to assume so. With most Switch2 games no longer even being stored on the cards, it's one massive step towards the abandonment of physical media.