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Digital or Physical

All Digital 9 7.83%
 
All Physical 72 62.61%
 
Depends on install size 6 5.22%
 
Whatever is cheaper 4 3.48%
 
Depends on the game 17 14.78%
 
Other / Neither 7 6.09%
 
Total:115
Acevil on 16 January 2017

All physical for me when I can, or to the best of my ability.



 

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Hapuc12 on 16 January 2017

Physical in everything i don't like digital tbh and i like to have a collection of games.



d21lewis on 16 January 2017

Physical. Unlike with PS4 and Xbox One (almost my one year all digital anniversary!), I doubt Nintendo will let me use the same game purchase on multiple consoles.



TheLegendaryWolf on 16 January 2017

All physical, it's the best way to game imo. To me downloads are for games I can't purchase in stores like Virtual Console games and free to downloads.



irstupid on 16 January 2017
shikamaru317 said:
Physical for sure. Nowhere near enough internal storage on Switch for digital gaming, and a decent sized SD card will cost you $90 or more.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DOB6YW4/ref=twister_B01G67VV6C?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Hardly expensive.

But I'm going digital. Ignoring the ease of not having to pop in a new cartridge, carry multiple cartridges and other factors. I don't have to also store the many cases of each game. Though some of the boxart does look awesome.

As to OP's list. I thought I read that the game saves were not going on the cartridges and were on the system.



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dgboweniii on 16 January 2017

Physical games in 2017 makes no sense.  Its just cumbersome and inconvenient.  HOWEVER.....  Going all physical will eliminate the 32GB storage issue, and its cartridges; so why not.  



irstupid on 16 January 2017
shikamaru317 said:
irstupid said:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DOB6YW4/ref=twister_B01G67VV6C?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Hardly expensive.

But I'm going digital. Ignoring the ease of not having to pop in a new cartridge, carry multiple cartridges and other factors. I don't have to also store the many cases of each game. Though some of the boxart does look awesome.

As to OP's list. I thought I read that the game saves were not going on the cartridges and were on the system.

I was referring to a 256 GB card with the $90 price. Switch games are supposedly around 10 GB, so you'll be filling up the 32 GB internal storage and a 128 GB card pretty quickly. It would be one thing if digital games were cheaper, but Nintendo doesn't put digital games on sale very often, and they pretty much never get permanent price drops. 

Well, in a year the 256 will be like $40

I can't see myself filling up the 128 in a year. Probably take 2. By then there will be 512 if not larger for like $50.

I'll then just transfer my 128gb card to something else (tablet, phone, or just old games doubtful ever play again) and put in new large sd card that will fit all



se7en7thre3 on 16 January 2017

bigger titles - physical... eshop/indie - digital, same as Wii U



SonytendoAmiibo on 16 January 2017

Who doesn't want a sexy little cartridge of Skyrim? Now if we can get the Mass Effect trilogy on a three cartridge set with custom amiibo collectors edition I will know that my life is complete.



   

Hey! They got SONY on my amiibo! Wait a minute. Two great gaming tastes that game great together!

Switch FC: SW-0398-8858-1969

Frogger on 16 January 2017

I'm going digital only obviously, but I don't think games will be cheaper outside of My Nintendo discounts.