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JackHandy on 14 July 2025
DroidKnight said:
JackHandy said:

Because of these, I have decided my S2 will be 100% a first party machine. If they decide to offer smaller carts to developers, and the situation changes, I might alter my plans.

Mine will be a mostly 1st party machine, but will add 2nd and 3rd party JRPG's that are fully carted. 

I hope for your sake they are. Seems like this thing could get really out of hand if Nintendo doesn't figure something out, and soon. Especially considering publishers and devs have other options (PS5 etc). Although, S2 is going to outsell PS5 by a large margin in Japan so, who knows. This whole thing is concerning on so many levels.



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Raven on 14 July 2025

The only reason I could see Game Key Cards being beneficial is to give a digital license resale value in some way, but that's about it. I don't personally mind buying games digitally, so Game Key Cards seem like the worst of both worlds in that I have to have it inserted into the system to play it like a physical game, but I also have to waste space on my storage like a digital game.



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