Jus a note, it says "up to 13GB" I imagine this means there is definitely a day 1 patch, but will not be 13GB.
Because Nintendo decided to use pricey carts.
Because Nintendo decided to use pricey carts.
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Lego City Undercover Switch cover mentions 13GB download [Up3: Full game on card]
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KennyLinder
Member
It will probably be a specific game mode.
They should eat the costs because they're Warner Bros, not a small indie dev. We don't know how much cards costs but we know it's not a significant amount of money added to the cost.
DH devs must be willing to eat the extra costs then.
Unless Nintendo steps in and pays for production this will happen a lot
Following up my post from earlier
As of 21:44 GMT, Amazon charts
US
Switch - 171st
PS4 - 986th
One - 1,180th
UK
Switch - 59th
PS4 - 320th
One - 674th
Germany
Switch - 52nd
PS4 - 157th
One - 938th
France
Switch - 105th
PS4 - 1,023rd
One - 2,351st
It has to be seen how much this news could affect preorders, though.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Not quite, you can still give it to someone as a gift and sell it.
Jawbreaker
Member
Ask Nintendo. It's on them to facilitate things for third-party devs/pubs and their consumers. This is clearly a case where the media used introduced a scenario where compromises need to be made in some cases.
AtomicShroom
Member
If you can't afford to fully release your game on physical media, then don't. Make your available on the digital store only. Or ship boxes with download codes to retail stores. At this point, what's the difference?
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Deleted member 465307
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This move basically means that I won't be rebuying this game for a long time, if ever. Already 100%ed it on Wii U and was considering buying the game again, but if it's going to take up half my internal storage, then no.
I've been intentionally buying physical when I can on Switch to save space and put off having to buy a MicroSD for cost reasons, so I can't really support this decision. I can't believe they didn't even bother to at least use a 16 GB card and let only the last 4 GB be a download. That would at least be more acceptable.
I might have been willing to pay $10 extra if it was all contained on a cart. As is, I won't consider it until MicroSD sizes increase and prices drop.
This. I feel like this half-step is pretty shady. I'd much rather they just went all digital. That said, I'm glad someone noticed this early before I clicked buy on Amazon and assumed it was like every other physical game I've ever bought.
I've been intentionally buying physical when I can on Switch to save space and put off having to buy a MicroSD for cost reasons, so I can't really support this decision. I can't believe they didn't even bother to at least use a 16 GB card and let only the last 4 GB be a download. That would at least be more acceptable.
I might have been willing to pay $10 extra if it was all contained on a cart. As is, I won't consider it until MicroSD sizes increase and prices drop.
This. I feel like this half-step is pretty shady. I'd much rather they just went all digital. That said, I'm glad someone noticed this early before I clicked buy on Amazon and assumed it was like every other physical game I've ever bought.
Diablohead
Member
The latest tony hawk was just a demo without the download content, pretty much.
Disc media already require mandatory installs on other consoles....
As said earlier, looking at pre-orders on amazon, the Switch version is by far the most popular. Amazing that they're not willing to bite the bullet on the version they're potentially going to sell the most of.
Robobandit
Member
a port of a 2-3 yr old game isn't worth $60 to begin with. It should have been cheaper on all platforms than what they're asking for it.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Might want to grab a few, just to be safe. Lol
JetSetRadio
Banned
Worse 3rd party quantity and quality than wiiu, I don't get it.
I do actually.
I do actually.
I have a 3DS and a Vita and didn't habe to deal with any of this problems.
Nachtfalke
Member
On the other side DQH 1+2 is really expensive in Japan. But no idea if this has anything to do with the cartridge size. But RIME in comparison is also more expensive in Switch.
I really hope we don't see more examples like this. Such a shitty move. No buy from me.
We'll see the response in April
yep - taking up a huge amount of HDD space for a cart is ridiculous.
jediyoshi
Member
You have a very optimistic view of the law.
Which is? It's clear that some people won't mind, and others will disapprove.
I didn't complain about Rime having a $10 switch tax. And I still plan on getting it on switch, even though I have the ps4 preordered.
AcademicSaucer
Member
You have to give it to WB, that fucking smart
Fuck buying the physical version tho, whats the point
Fuck buying the physical version tho, whats the point
SatoAilDarko
Member
It could be a small beginning area available in Undercover without the update.
Tony Hawk 5 shipped with 4.6GB on disc and a 7.7GB Day 1 patch.
Without the patch you could play the tutorial.
benicillin
Banned
I don't usually get mad about stuff like this but wow that's a garbage way to get around using a higher capacity cart. Hope this doesn't become a norm.
We don't know that.
Jonneh3003
Banned
How is it worse than Wii U? You can still play the game on Switch perfectly fine, you just need to download part of the game. Breath of the Wild has a mandatory download on Wii U, granted it's only 3GB but the practise isn't unheard of. I'm not defending WB, I think this is greedy as hell, but it's hardly an example of poor third party quality. I'm sure the game is fine.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
I love the Switch, but stuff like this and the Switch tax are creating clear issues with the platform. Nintendo really needs to nip this in the bud, but I'm not sure how.
Matt posted about that. I'm on mobile tho I can't look it up for now.
Yeah it'll be the best selling version by far, they really are acting greedy there.
And those games have pretty much always only cost 40$ to begin with (with a few exceptions from Atlus), a price that should easily be achievable for this game considering it's a slightly enhanced port of a game from 2013.
dragonflys545
Member
I almost hit max on my 2tb PS4 external hd... they better get on making those 2tb memory cards lolol for 80buck...
I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea that the cart of the game doesn't actually run the game. That's one of the main reasons people buy physical so they can just plug in the cart and start playing. It reminds me of the late pre-Steam days when some publishers started selling PC physical games with a disc that was just the launcher to download the game digitally.
Fair enough.
Yeah to be fair DQH 32GB cart is possibly to explain why its priced higher, like $20 higher than a typical console game. I originally thought it was because of the two-game compilation.
Damn i hope this doesn't become commonplace.
UnemployedVillain
Member
You know a lot of you have a tendency to come up with theories and then react to them as if they're fact. I'm not saying not to speculate, as that's all we can do, but it's a bit bizarre that you're indulging in what is essentially hypothetical anger (at the "reason", not at the fact we have a huge day 1 download, which is BS on WBs part)