Among Switch owners I know there actually is a fair amount of buzz, just like there was for Skyrim back in 2017, a similar situation where a massively popular game(s) came to Nintendo and a handheld for the first time.

Personally I can't stand GTA but there is definitely excitement among plenty of Switch gamers.

Well I don't know about your consoles, but when mine sees a patch is available, it usually refuses to launch the game without it.

Well I don't know about your consoles, but when mine sees a patch is available, it usually refuses to launch the game without it.

This is the issue with modern consoles in general. They make it impossible to backup anything. The WiiU may have failed as hardware but that let you backup all your save files and patches etc to an external HDD.  Even if I went all digital, the games are tied to your console, so if your console dies so do the games if the online service is shutdown 10 years later and I cannot redownload them onto the new one.

There is a reason why a lot of Nintendo retro games go for big bucks now because Nintendo gamers are collectors first and gamers second. They are proud to own and hold their games. Even here in Aus, when Wii had the most sales in Aus compared to PS3, there was still way more PS3 games in second hand stores than there was Wii games.

The sooner these idiot 3rd party companies realise this concept with Nintendo gamers the higher their sales will be. I have passed on so many games on Switch simply because I had to download one of the games, or half the game etc. Why can't they just use smaller carts and more of them if they haveto spend money on the larger ones? Charge me more, i'll pay it if the full content is on one lol.

Now I have played all those GTA games before on my PC so it isn't like I desperately need to play them again. But you know what it would have been cool to have them for my Switch in my collection

The Switch asks you if you want to start up the game anyways or if you want to update first.

Yep, and then when you put "start the game" it says "you really need to update it first"

SKM is right, there are cases where games ask you to update and won't launch without it. Turning off the internet after you have been asked also doesn't work, once it knows there's a mandatory update offline won't save you.

I don't know what determines whether an update can be skipped or not, perhaps up to the developer, but it has happened to me in single player games so it's not just something for multiplayer reasons.