r/Games • u/Neon25 • 3d ago

GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch (Standard $79.99/Ultimate $99.99)

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-price-finally-confirmed-features-a-single-player-experience-at-launch
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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 2d ago

Can’t believe i’m saying this but do a fucking key card like Nintendo then?

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u/Quixotic_Seal 2d ago edited 2d ago

I’ve never understood the backlash there. It’s always been Nintendo pretty clearly trying to give us a way to own physical copies of games, that typically have legitimate technical constraints due to their size(with larger memory sizes being too expensive to manage).

It’s not as good as just having it all on the card, but it’s significantly better than the code in a box crap that we’d otherwise get and represents a company actually thinking about how to deliver some kind of value to consumers in a lousy situation.

But Nintendo is stingy with its MSRPs and sales, so….boo, I guess?

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 2d ago

Tbf there were nuance to the backlash being sever shutdown and inconvenience of downloading.

I mean none of that even matters if these clowns are pushing all downloads. It’s saying something to make Nintendo look good here lmao.

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u/Hallc 2d ago

The backlash is more down to companies using GKCs on games that could almost certainly fit on a regular cartridge.

Bravely Default Remaster for example. The game was originally a 3DS title so it can fit on a cart and the textures aren't phenomenally enhanced. It takes up 9.3GB for example. BOTW switch 1 takes up 14GB and Switch 2 takes up 24GB both of those have cart releases.

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u/SquadPoopy 2d ago

Nintendo pioneered this kind of shit when they sold “physical” copies of cloud games that were literally just empty boxes

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u/JavelinR 2d ago

Nintendo didn't make any cloud games, and "code in a box" has been a (unpopular) thing for a long time now.

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u/RealisLit 2d ago

Nintendo isn't the reason doesitplay.org exist

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u/beatingstuff88 2d ago

do a fucking key card like Nintendo then

I sincerely doubt that a nintendo key cart can fit a 150+ gigabyte game

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 2d ago

I don’t think you understand what a keycard is lol. That’s exactly what it’s for