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FarleyMcFirefly on 20 February 2018

I'm going to pass then. I already have Legacy on 3DS. Really wanted Legacy 2 physical. Same thing with RE:R2. I had the first on Wii U, and wanted the second physical.

Oh well. I'd be mad about Bayonetta as well, but I have both of them physically on Wii U, so I'm all good there.

This is really starting to get annoying though.



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VAMatt on 20 February 2018

They do it to kill the secondary market.



outlawauron on 20 February 2018
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
No, they aren't too expensive. Carts are just an excuse to move more and more to digital downloads for third parties.

Right. There haven't been any other (read: every single publisher) complaining about the high cost of Switch carts. 



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 20 February 2018
outlawauron said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
No, they aren't too expensive. Carts are just an excuse to move more and more to digital downloads for third parties.

Right. There haven't been any other (read: every single publisher) complaining about the high cost of Switch carts. 

Lol I'm actually not sure why I wrote this because I don't even necessarily agree with it .... kind of odd, no joke. I guess I was reacting mostly to the Mega Man portion and should have made a more in-depth post. But you make a fair point. 

I understand that carts over a certain set amount do cost more but the fact that the publishers can't take the cost (most of the time it's games that have a higher price on Switch than they have on any other platform) is pretty ridiculous. We already know that certain games out there COULD be put on a cart but aren't and instead are put as a digital download. Games like LA Noire are 10$ more than other versions of the game, and it's unlikely that that doesn't cover the cost of the cart (in fact, it probably goes over it quite decently). There are more examples but you probably already know them anyways. It's not like third parties are in your best interest. Realistically, there is a cost associated with carts and that cost does suck ... but I'd much rather just pay the literal cost of the difference then some of these really inflated prices or cheap downloads. 

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Mr Puggsly on 20 February 2018

Considering the size of the two games combined is rather small, this seems like a marketing decision. Encouraging more people to buy digital.

Given the way Nintendo handles digital downloads, I will always buy elsewhere for multiplat digital titles.



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vivster on 20 February 2018

Good guy Nintendo trying to help out the struggling digital market.



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Miyamotoo on 20 February 2018

It's quite simple, it's more cheaper to use carts with smaller storage. I can understand that for big games and downloads, but I realy cant understand that Capcom doing this for small game like Mega Man Legacy Collection also.



SuperNova on 20 February 2018

If Ace Atorney wasn't pretty much digital only already I'd be very worried about the collection now.
I did hold on to the tiny hope that we'd get that physically, but this basically buries that hope.



Baddman on 20 February 2018

was getting digital anyway but that is some bullshit



ghost_of_fazz on 20 February 2018
Ganoncrotch said:
Just look at it like a online pass, a method for them to use the media to fight pre owned sales of the games, each time someone buys a used copy of Bayonetta 2 they need to still shell out 30 online for the first game.

This is the actual reason, right here.

Anyone else that says it's because "carts are expensive" just doesn't gets it.