Zippy6 said:
They're a necessary evil because Nintendo chose a very expensive physical format. Many publishers would likely have gone code-in-box or digital only with switch 2 if key cards didn't exist. Nintendo charged publishers $15 for a 64GB cart compared to a 100GB BDXL Blu-ray being more like $2. Because of the nand price crisis those 64GB carts probably cost Nintendo at least $20 to make now, so Nintendo may infact be losing money selling them to third parties if they haven't changed how much they charge them. A slower cheaper physical storage that had mandatory installs would have been the better play to get releases with the data on cart/disc. |
I believe 15$ was how much switch 1 carts cost as well, and most developers used em, I mean some
had other unsavory practices like half cart, half download.
