Unfortunately Nintendo’s been on the trend of basically being digital too with those shitty keycards that will cease to work if you didn’t download the game before they eventually cut their servers (or if you try to play it for the first time in a place without wifi)
Nevermind the whole “We can brick your device whenever we feel like it”. I’m genuinely upset because Nintendo has so many IPs that I love and literally can’t play anywhere else. Especially the fact that they actually made interesting and unique hardware like the DS and Wii, which can be a pain to emulate rather than just having a jailbroken console. Plus there’s way more steps invloved with Switch emulation compared to old consoles.
I’ve got a huge game backlog, but I was really looking forward to this year and the next after that Switch 2 direct :(
Nope, I do know that they still make real, non-keycard, cartridge games, althought I didn’t know they have a policy to make all Nintendo-published games available physically. That’s reassuring for now.
But like you said, that doesn’t solve the issue of most 3rd party games being keycard…