That movement started about ten years ago and is in full swing. The list of physical publishers is long, but to name a few you have Strictly Limited, Red Art, East Asiasoft, Pixel Heart, Special Reserve, First Press, Pixnlove.
Corpos are disingenuous by default. That's my own opinion, however.
It's a lot easier to get hold of running electricity as opposed to no internet though???? There are generators for electricity that run off of gas. You can't generate an internet connection with gas.
3DS shutdown as well, and that sold a hell of a lot more than the Wii U ever did. Of course you can still redownload games you already had purchased, but there is no guarantee that will still be possible 5 or 10 years from now.
Fuck me if I want to buy a game at the airport shop but don't have the bandwidth to download a 50 GB game on to my Switch before a flight.
yeah, those are still servers they need to uphold. They're not going to keep that functionality up forever. The 3DS at least has the benefit of exploits and unauthorized backups meaning that you can still enjoy that console's library today, but Switch 2 with its tighter TOS and security may not be the same. That doesn't look good.
As a collector, I find these editions abhorrent.
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NIS are re-releasing a Switch 2 edition of Disgaea 7, and they've made a $100 collector's edition that comes with a cheap fan and cheap plastic solar cat toy - but it seems the biggest reason it's not selling is that the game itself is coming on a Game Key Card.
These special edition games usually are limited quantity and sell out sometimes within days or even hours. This collector's edition has been sitting at 100% stock for the past few hours.
Seems like the people / collectors who would want to purchase something like this probably don't like the idea of getting a cartridge without the game on it.
A figure is kinda cool if it's nice quality, but yeah...this one seems kinda useless.
Now the bad thing is the people who complain, but they are the same idiots who have Keycards on launch day with their stupid Instagram photos or worse...
I'm going to support that game, along with Mario Kart.
I only have one Disgaea because it has the female protagonist of The Guided Fate Paradox on PS3 as a guest, but those games don't catch my attention.
I feel like I got double screwed on Bravely Default. I bought it even with the game key card cuz I wanted to play it...but then I forgot that the western version is censored. I could've gotten the Japanese version, with english, without censorship. ugh
Thanks for the info. I didn't know it was censored.
third party make choose key card because more profit
Outfits are censored. Some are altered, or in Ringabel's case, they just removed his.
Isn't that Sony doing that for years? Even if you do buy physical copy of PS5 games you still need download huge file size to your PS5.
yep and Xbox does that too, I really hate it
Luckily we don't have much to worry about as long as Switch 1 and PS5 get supported. I feel that these game-key cards already killed this kind of market on Switch 2, you will not really see much benefit on buying a game-key card Switch 2 version of Disgaea 8 instead of the Switch 1 release.
Or for a birthday or Christmas, you can't even play your game immediately. That's a poor experience.
Yea that's always been the case once they integrated all three games together a few years back. It's now considered a "service-like" game (even though it's primarily single player)
Square hasn't been part of the franchise for a while now.
It still looks bizarre how Nintendo is just trying to quickly sneak in digital-only console and thinks people will not notice that 50GB download when you put a plastic inside the console.
Exactly, especially for a 256gb console. That's infuriating for anyone who prefer physical.
