About 3rd party games on Switch

[bonzobanana]

Rogerioandrade said:

bonzobanana said:

Cartridges aren't cheap. I've seen it stated on these forums but no data to back up those claims. Optical media costs pence/cents to make but cartridges are in dollars. 

Are Blue-Ray discs that cheap to make too?

I´m not sure what exactly will be the type of cards used by the Switch... we know at least that they´re definetely not cartridges, but memory/flash cards instead. 

blu-ray is cheap. Here in the UK you see naff films on blu-ray as low as £1 retail. Switch uses proprietory cartridges/cards similar to 3DS. Probably flash memory although I guess there is some sort of write protection in their design except for a small section for saves.

Whatever the cost of cartridges is much higher than optical media and has a knock on effect to publishers costs.