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Soundwave on 26 September 2025
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V-r0cK said:
Farsala said:

But then it costs dev time to compress it properly, leading 3rd parties to conclude that porting to Nintendo consoles is not worth the trouble.

Makes me wonder if Nintendo has told developers (at least the big ones like Square Enix) years before the release of the Switch 2 about how they're only providing 64gb cartridges, but then sold them on the lie about Game Key Cards and that consumers would be fine with that option too lol

Well FF7 remake game came out 5yrs ago, so if Square knew about this and planned to port it to Switch 2 then they had time.  If CD Projekt did it then there's really not much excuse for other devs.

Let's assume we're just talking about PS4 ports to Switch 2; FF7 remake alone on PS4 is roughly 60gb, while Cyberpunk was like +100gb.  If anything Square should have it easier to put on the actual Switch 2 cartridge than CD Projekt.

If anything, maybe devs should band forces and hold back releasing their games on Switch 2 until Nintendo's willing to provide a larger cartridge and/or reduce the cost of the cartridge significantly. Continue to port to Xbox is fine.

Nintendo has definitely put 3rd party devs in a tough position and it just feels that Nintendo isn't playing nice with anybody this gen (devs and consumers) except for ICE letting them use Pokemon like that loll jkkk not trying to get political.

KratosLives said:

Maybe i should wait for a switch 3 instead

I'm with you there. With the way Nintendo's going at it this gen I may skip the Switch 2.

It's not about playing nice. The cartridges are just fucking expensive. That's nobody's fault, it's just a reality of why cartridges are a shitty format in general. When they get expensive, it becomes problematic, always has been, always will be, this goes back to the 1980s. 

The Switch 3 probably won't even have physical media period, so good luck with that. 

The only thing cartridges ever really had going for them was they used to be significantly faster of a format than discs, but since playing games off discs is no longer a standard at all, cartridges are now basically the slowest format on the market, on top of being the most expensive way to distribute games. It has basically nothing going for it. 

I don't even buy that there's some big preservation angle here, the data on a cartridge is going to be exactly the same as data on internal storage or on an SD Card. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 26 September 2025