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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

Just like with the 3DS and the Wii U, I will buy all games physical except for eShop exclusives or discounts.



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Digital for indie games.
Physical for everything else.



Miguel_Zorro said:
Isn't the advantage of cartridges the fast load time?

That entirely depends on the cartridge. SD cards range from 2 MB/s (class 2) to 95 MB/s (UHS-3) read speed.
Fast load times are more a bonus of smaller sized games than it coming on a cartridge.

I doubt Nintendo will put games on expensive UHS-3 cards, yet there's no reason for the Switch not to support UHS-3. So there is a possibility games can benefit from installing on a faster card. With bigger games it might be a noticeable difference.



It may be stupid, but just for the boxarts I would go all the way physical. They're very beautiful as far as I could see.



Physical, because I like to resell games I don't want anymore.



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Digital the games I want forever, with tons of replay, physical the ones ill probably trade after finish.



Physical for me, I only buyt digital game on PC.



If the game gets a physical release, I will take the physical release. Due to using cards, the games are easily portable and since they aren't discs I don't have to worry about them getting scratched. My internet connection is also pretty sad so it takes a day or two to download a full game :(. But the game cards are small as well making the card carrying cases small enough to take with me anywhere and if I ever feel a storage crunch at the homestead I can ditch the actual cases the games come in and just store the game carts in said carrying case.



PAOerfulone said:
Digital for indie games.
Physical for everything else.

Same here. Although I'm hopeful indie games will get physical releases. Binding of Isaac is a good sign, I hope.



Physical. Only get digital games when I can't get them physically.



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