Over 75% of Cyberpunk 2077's sales on Switch 2 were physical

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TheRealSamusAran said:

Darwinianevolution said:

Good. The whole fake cartridge situation is absurd. Either allow physical media or go full digital and accept the consequences, but trying to fake it to both publishers and the public was absurd. Hopefully now the publishers adopt fully physical releases, since it's clearly what the userbase wants.

Nintendo created the "game key-card" branding and demanded those to be clearly identified IN THE FRONT of the box to do the exact opposite of "trying to fake it", but trying to do something good and getting criticized for it, is just natural for Nintendo at this point.

The moment you release a cartridge that is empty and needs a full digital download to function, it is a fake cartridge. The point of the cartridge is to contain the game, not to serve as a glorified download code. It's e-waste of the worst kind.