Borderlands 3 not likely on switch

[bonzobanana]

dahuman said:

bonzobanana said:

If I'm on crack I dread to think what you are smoking. Do you not have a clue that such a low performance console will have to cut out some of the content or reduce quality for much of the the game anyway, texture quality etc. There will be natural shrinkage anyway. It would probably end up on a 8GB/64Gb cartridge especially as third party games previously for cartridge games tended to go for smaller sizes of cartridges to reduce upfront costs and their stock investment in cartridges. Whatever it would be a hopeless version which only a small number of people would buy especially like here in the UK where the cartrige prices are £60 suggested retail and the far superior versions will enter retail well below that and be discounted quite quickly. It's simply not commercially realistic. 

We seem to be going through the same process as wii u where people where expecting wii u ports of big third party games but there simply was no commercial demand for them.  There has never been any evidence or track record of people paying high prices for mobile games and lets face it android and apple have if anything pushed prices well down causing Nintendo problems for even 3DS cartridge pricing but Switch is well above those.

So many reasons why the Switch is not a good format for this game.

So basically, you are saying storage is not a problem anyways, now your orginal post is moot. and I do smoke weed occasionally, I live in WA lol. I also don't remember when the last time Borderlands wasn't cel-shaded, like we need horse power for that shit lol. Not that I've played one since 2 TBH, lost interest already, Gearbox needs to come up with something new IMO.

It's not like optical where a game can be any size up to the maximum capacity of the disc and you can even add a second disc at low cost if you need to increase storage. Cartridge games will always be under pressure to be smaller because that is always cheaper. Macronix do a huge range of sizes. I'm sure games like bomberman may actually be very small on Switch and Zelda probably represents the maximum capacity for the moment which I think is 16GB capacity although in the past some games were more heavily compressed on cartridge for 3DS than digital downloads because they had to be shoe-horned into a set cartridge size with Nintendo preferring to increase loading times rather than waste space on the cartridge. 3DS games range from 128MB to 4GB in size. In the UK it looks like 8GB or 16GB Nintendo games may have a £60 retail price but sub 8GB games may be at £50. However in the past often the smaller cartridges from third parties had a high price so those could be £60 over here as well. No one is expecting 1-2 switch to be anything other than a  tiny cartridge. So lets not pretend cartridge prices and capacity are not going to be a huge issue for the Switch. Even producing a small simple 128MB game on Switch on cartridge is going to be a lot more expensive than an optical disc containing 25GB or 50GB of content. 

3DS game sizes here;

http://www.3dsdb.com/