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[DarkShadowXI]

Threads devolving into the same tired "cry about keycards" discussion is getting really obnoxious. It's almost like we need a containment thread so that every time a game is revealed to be a keycard release, we can actually discuss the game.

Pokepia is on my radar in the off chance that it fills the Dragon Quest Builders void in my life. I am really hoping that the game has simulation elements to it.

Agreed. To bring it back on topic, yeah this looks like it might be a fun, chill, game.

It'll probably be really charming and it's on my radar, for sure. Having a builder-like game is always fun to have in the rotation.

My wife will be all over this one.

 

[Durin]

It's still just a weird problem where I don't get why they couldn't just make the cartridges to write the data to the faster internal storage (or micro-sd cards).

All I've heard is them trying to make piracy difficult, but Sony and Microsoft seem to handle DRM well enough with discs that can write to the faster storage.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Why do you hate key cards if you are getting it digital?

I can have 20 games installsd on my Switch 2 and "Switch" from one game to another without needing to insert a useless piece of plastic everytime I do so

 

[Power Pro]

The thing that makes game key cards so offensive for so many people, myself included, is the Switch 1 and a lot of it's audience were physical collectors. It was a physical collector haven, whether it was being the only system with a cartridge format still, or the fact that games didn't always require massive amounts of storage to download and install. You could play a lot of games just from the cart.

An entire market was created to sell to people who wanted games released physically that were normally just digital only, and most of the sales were to Switch owners. Most companies like limited run make their money off people who buy Switch games that don't normally get physical releases.

There's a massive audience of people who bought into the Switch 2 hoping to continue with physical collecting, and they went so hard in the other direction. The only hope left was that at least first parties weren't going to pull the game key card shit, and now that's out the window.

 

[Robb]

I can only hope the game bombs. I'm not buying any of their titles as GKC. I really hope this is just the Pokemon Company's doing more so than Nintendo.

 

[rkofan87]

nm

 

[Emedan]

I'm both a PC gamer and a console gamer but I do think it's weird that console gamers are so fixated on physical media

Steam is pretty amazing and I have acquired a massive digital library overtime without any sort of real issues

I get the hypothetical fear that your games are going disappear if you don't own physical copies, but being able to hold the library of all your games on physical media is slowly becoming a thing of the past and I can assure you that digital gaming has worked for PC gamers for quite a while

Im also a PC gamer and have been buying games on steam for over 20 years, but on PC I know these games always will be available - one way or the other. Not so the same for a console. The Key Cards are only valuable as long as Nintendo is willing to keep the game available on their servers - which probably isn't forever. For this reason I bought mostly physical first party games on the Switch 1 and planned doing the same for Switch 2.

You might collect VHS tapes but you can't collect Netflix streams.

 

[Woopah]

I can have 20 games installsd on my Switch 2 and "Switch" from one game to another without needing to insert a useless piece of plastic everytime I do so

But key cards existing doesn't stop you doing that right? If you buy games from the eshop anyway, then it's makes no difference to you if the retail version is a cart or GKC.

 

[Codes 208]

I can only hope the game bombs. I'm not buying any of their titles as GKC. I really hope this is just the Pokemon Company's doing more so than Nintendo.

It is. Nintendo confirmed all of their first party IP's will be on normal cartridges, even the latest hyrule warriors was.

Thing here though is that Pokemon Pokopia is a second party exclusive being made by a third party developer.

 

[L*][*N*K]

But key cards existing doesn't stop you doing that right? If you buy games from the eshop anyway, then it's makes no difference to you if the retail version is a cart or GKC.

No it doesn't make any difference, I just like to collect physical games and to me KeyCard is not a physical game hence why I hate it

 

[Woopah]

No it doesn't make any difference, I just like to collect physical games and to me KeyCard is not a physical game hence why I hate it

Got it!

 

[EverydayBeast]

Pokémon at his heights was a really good mobile game, the console versions deliver, but don't do anything special

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

How many hidden dislikes does that damn video have?

 

[Stitch]

 

[Stitch]

Long Trailer


Short Trailer

 

[LordCBH]

Game looks like it could be really fun

But.


Nintendo releasing this as a keycard less than a year after saying none of their games would ship on keycards is terrible.

 

[touchfuzzy]

It does look fun.

It also does not look like worth $70 USD, that price is crazy. Should be a $30 USD digital only game from the looks of it.

 

[The_Mike]

People in this thread complaining about keycards:

People in here has always been in favor of physical releases.

 

[Randall365]

People in here has always been in favor of physical releases.

They will be the ones laughing, when we are stuck with playing the few games we have installed in the Nuclear holocaust, while they can play their hundreds of physical copies, all on generators of course.

 

[kiphalfton]

They're going to do the same thing with the new Zelda

In 2035, that will probably be the least of peoples problems.