How Will be Switch 2 Performance Wise?

[Soundwave]

They can offer "Collector's Editions" of physical games that have the physical cartridge with small print runs, but even that would likely come with some sobering caveats

1.) You as the consumer pay the $16 surchage for the cartridge. You want it, well then you pay for it, don't complain afterwards. That would mean things like a $79.99 game like Madden NFL 26 or Star Wars Outlaws is now $95.99 for you. Basically all your third party games will be $80-$90, have fun with that.

2.) The whole "yeah but at least I got the whole game on the cartridge right!" would also still be wrong. You would still need patches and downloads for most games no different from PS5/XSS disc titles. And for a lot of games 64GB wouldn't be enough, so you'd have to download the extra data to your internal storage or memory. So just understand that physical format does not equal "owning the entire game!" technically. You still have to download stuff and may have to download game data itself if the game is above 64GB.

3.) The game off cartridge is going to perform likely the worst, most people don't understand this because there's only a few games on cartridge thus far, but as we go along they're going to start to understand the cartridge basically has way worse loading times. In some cases the 400MB/sec cartridges may not be fast enough to run the game period so you'll just take the data sitting on the cartridge and move it onto the internal flash storage or an SD Card to play it. Which is dumb, but it is what it is. 

That's fair if you understand all that. The reason Nintendo doesn't really want to push this is because it's fucking confusing for Average Shopper/Grandpa Trying To Buy A Game For Their 11 Year Old type thing.

You see there's a Game Key Card version of Madden NFL or Star Wars Outlaws for $79.99, next to it is a Collectors Physical Cartridge Edition for $95.99 ... it can become a lot. They may not understand what is different and not understand it's the same game just a different format. I guess you could pull it off by differentiating the package and really emphasizing it's a Collectors Edition, but I can see why for Nintendo this wasn't an attractive option.

Last edited by Soundwave - on 08 September 2025