Should Smash Have Been Released in August with Fewer Characters and Slowly Built to 75 with Free DLC?

[Shiken]

NightlyPoe said:

Shiken said:

*looks at pile of Switch games complete on the cart*

 

Wat?

Do you see the trend of physical games that require large downloads reversing?  I certainly don't.  Particularly with multiplayer online games, most of which are unplayable without a patch anyway.

Does not seem to be the case on Switch as long as the cart is big enough.

 

But any way you slice it, even a digital purchase should have FULL content at the time of release.  You pay full price, you should get the full product.  If you honestly think that if Nintendo released an incomplete product with the promise to deliver the rest in patches overtime on their biggest release of the year would not result in backlash on a major scale, you need to re evaluate the situation.

 

What you might what to happen for whatever reason does not equate to what the gamer masses want.  Just because it is tolerated from time to time, that does not make it right.  Paying full price for something and not getting it out of the box (or download) should be unacceptable by all means.

 

As I said before, just because it worked with Splatoon does not mean that people would not have rather had everything out of the gate instead.