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