Witcher 3 revealed for the Switch!

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Nuvendil said:

HoangNhatAnh said:

Resident Evil Revelation used 4GB cart on 3ds and Capcom nearly sold it at $50, right? N64 cart cost a lot too, the bigger ones are more expensive. Whether this article is true or not, it pointed out some undeniable facts about the data size and the production of cart which could affect the price a lot

Not going to get involved in this debate, but comparjng N64 cartridges to Switch game cards is not really appropriate.  Very different technology,  very different fabrication process.  N64 cartridges were so expensive as to make selling N64 games at the same price as most single disc PS1 games literally unprofitable.  Switch game cards are not in that price range, it's more about eating into margins not erasing them.

But cartridge is always more expensive than disc with the same data size, isn't it?

RolStoppable said:

HoangNhatAnh said:

Resident Evil Revelation used 4GB cart on 3ds and Capcom nearly sold it at $50, right? N64 cart cost a lot too, the bigger ones are more expensive. Whether this article is true or not, it pointed out some undeniable facts about the data size and the production of cart which could affect the price a lot

Yes, Capcom nearly did that. Then they realized that their greed wouldn't be worth the backlash and lost sales, so they changed their mind.

Anyone who uses the words 'card' and 'cart' interchangeably instantly loses credibility on this topic. The article you linked committed the very same mistake. Someone who doesn't grasp that there are big differences between cards and carts lacks the competence to write about the topic and is definitely not a credible source.

Credible or not, two points of it is very correct, the data size and the manufacturing cost of cartridge are mostly the biggest reasons here