Has anyone actually found the NSP/XCI somewhere?
I’ve found an update file but the base game doesn’t seem to be anywhere I have access to.
Has anyone actually found the NSP/XCI somewhere?
I’ve found an update file but the base game doesn’t seem to be anywhere I have access to.
And if you are wondering why Sony is killing physical games…
Because you can’t easily borrow it your friend or bring it with you to a game night?
We’ll keep wondering cause the shift to digital clearly isn’t stopping piracy.
Like almost everything, it isn’t about stopping piracy entirely.
Physical copies get sold early by stores/cashiers that don’t care. Or they get outright pocketed/copied at the factories and warehouses. Which lead to the constant “This nintendo game leaked a week or a month or whatever early”. Which… less so after the lawsuits but it means emulators can be updated to support the games before they even hit shelves.
Digital only doesn’t entirely stop that. But it tends to lead more toward “an unknown fake influencer posted all the cutscenes of this game online a week early”.
These fuckers should just release digital first, and physical comes when it’s done being printed and distributed. This anxiety over “oh no a finished game got leaked early” is manufactured drama. If the game is done, then it doesn’t matter when it gets released, except for artificial marketing angst. Make a good game that players want, and it’ll be purchased. Eventually. It doesn’t have to all happen at exactly the predicted moment.
Yeah i agree. Ffxvi just came out on pc and square is whining about not hitting sales goals. Like visions of mana just came out and im still playing that. Give me a couple months to buy the game, dorks
Is saving the game from an early leak worth getting rid of physical games? I hope not.
I might be unique in this but I’ll never “buy” a digital game. They’re impossible to resell and I can’t lend it to friends or my kids, they’d need my account or console. Plus I’ll have the physical game forever, digital games are only good as long as the servers are up.
I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this, so if companies stop offering physical games then I’m not going to buy them. (I’ll just pirate). I’ve preordered Zelda from GameStop. I support the content I want more of, like Zelda games, and I’ll continue to buy each one. If I don’t, then they might not make more.
I have no interest in physical games. I’m not willing to carry around 300 cartridges or only have access to a small portion of my library. But Nintendo has to know that physical game collectors are a big portion of their audience (with probably more than any other platform in either raw number or proportion). They can’t abandon physical.
Where would you be carrying them?
The switch is a handheld. So most places I go?
But surely you don’t need to constantly access all your games on every trip, right?
I always imagine people who die on this hill just admiring the title screen of every game in their library for 5 seconds and calling it a gaming session lol.
Yes, I absolutely want to be able to play any game I own on that platform at any time. That’s the entire reason I bought the game. Being restricted to the library on one platform is already a massive concession.
“You can only play this game if you preemptively lug it around with you in case you want to play it today” is not an acceptable condition of a purchase to me.
lol Nintendo are the only ones who get their games pirated, because they use antique hardware.
A quick look at TPB’s top 100 games tells me that was a lie.
Also, I feel like they kinda deserve it for being global vexatious litigants and squashing free fan projects at every opportunity.
It’s not the “antiquity” of the hardware. It’s that the chipset was known and they forgot to lock the bootloader.
That’s what happens when your core manufacturing philosophy is “withered technology”. You get old tech people have figured out.
Not a nintendo fan boy, but i will say i love that they focus more on good gameplay than having the flashiest graphics