| RolStoppable said: Did any specific new game cause this thread? As an example, is Persona 5 Royal a partial download? Because otherwise this thread is coming out of nowhere. |
Sort of. In a very roundabout way.
Skyrim Anniversary Edition is $70 on Switch. But that's a bundle with DLC so it's not the same, or a new concept really.
But it brought a conversation to 'Will Nintendo raise the price of their games to $70 as well, and if so when?'
And that turned into what could potentially justify a price hike that people would be ok with?
| RolStoppable said: Aside from that, I would have hoped that 5.5 years after Switch's launch everyone understands that cards and cartridges are not the same thing. A bunch of AAA third party publishers sure did try to make people believe that cards are an expensive storage medium like carts, but that was just some greedy bullshit on their part. As such, the answer to this thread is as simple as complete games cost $60 and that's the end of it. |
I'm more looking at the cost difference between bulk Blu Ray discs (which I believe can go for 10 cents) to the cards that the Switch games are on.
Kakadu18 said:
Even with collections this isn't actually a thing. The first 4 Megaman X games and 5-8 are two different collections sold separately on the eshop. Same goes for the other Megaman collections. |
Yeah, that's why I wondered if this has happened to any singular title. On any console even.
I suppose it would be possible in the same sense that Day 1 patches are a thing. But I feel like publishers would usually be reluctant to release a game (that's not an online live service game) that doesn't work out of the box unless you download the rest of it.
And that brings up another potential question. If a game publisher is considering porting/cross developing a game for Switch, but surmise they can't fit the game on there unless they use one of the more expensive larger cards, could that be a factor that has deterred some ports from making it to Switch?
If that publisher could instead charge an extra $10 or more for those type of games, perhaps that would change that.
