Why is the Switch still not getting big games from 3rd parties? October edition

[Mnementh]

potato_hamster said:

zorg1000 said:

Well honestly what other options for physical games are there for a device with a portable aspect?

Who says a device needs to have physical games, especially if they're going to be prohibitively expensive? If the Switch never contained a cartridge slot, or a touch screen (because it's practically unused by most developers), and had an internal capacity of, say 256 GB then *poof* this problem doesn't exist. If you don't like a lack of physical media, create a "cartridge" that contains a unique identifier that needs to be scanned by the system in order to be downloaded and played, and allow players to tie these codes to their account. Any time the "cartridge" is scanned and linked to another switch, the game becomes disabled on your Switch until it's scanned again to prevent piracy.

That's just one solution, and I'm not even coming close to saying it's what Nintendo should have done. There are dozens of others that Nintendo could have done, but again, chose this one. It's not like Nintendo didn't know a game like GTA V would probably require a 32 GB cartridge. This was always going to be an issue Nintendo knew about from day 1, and they did it anyways.

Physical distribution and representation in shops is still big.

And your idea with the id is basically pretty similar to the games releasing with additional downloads needed, which already happens. But still there is an upside to be offline and play the game. I bought the Switch on release for one reason only: I didn't wanted to wait to play Zelda, because it built up as an extraordinary game (and it was) and I was away for that weekend, so I picked up my Switch on friday and later in the train I started up Zelda for the first time. Impossible, if I had to download the game first.