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Does the Nintendo Switch physical version of Batman: Arkham Trilogy include all three games on one cartridge?

Batman: Arkham Asylum will be included on the Batman: Arkham Trilogy game cartridge. Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Knight will require an online connection to download and install both titles when the Batman: Arkham Trilogy cartridge is inserted into the Nintendo Switch console. All three games will then be playable as long as the cartridge is inserted into the Nintendo Switch console.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's pretty typical for some of these Switch game collections. Asylum is the smallest so it gets to be on the game card (probably a 4GB one).

Still not as stupid as the Megaman Legacy Collection 1+2 physical release, where they only included the first collection on the card which weighed in at about 500mb~.

Publishers will penny pinch any way they can.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 2 years ago

Or Metal Gear Master Collection only have 2.4 GB on cart, of total 24.1 GB.

[–] StrayPizza 5 points 2 years ago

They did this with the the Spyro trilogy remake. The cart contains only the first game and you have to download the others. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying physical.

[–] Dark_Blade 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder how Arkham Knight will even run on this thing, it’s such a massive performance hog.

[–] got2best 4 points 2 years ago

I was wondering the same when I watched the announcement

[–] irishbreakfast 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I enjoy about collecting physical games is just the experience of owning the physical copy and popping the cartridge into the Switch when I play, so this doesn’t super bother me. But I totally get the preservationist argument for having all the games on the cart (or across separate ones) and would prefer that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm different. The appeal of owning the game on cartridge to me is to have the entire game on the cartridge. If any significant portion is downloadable only, I see no reason to not just download the whole thing.

I can understand your argument completely though. It just feels like a waste of material to me when the cartridge doesn't carry the game(s) itself.

[–] inatsera 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

with starfield also essentially being digital only, we're gonna start seeing the last gasps of physical soon.

[–] slimerancher 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think physical will die so soon. But there are couple of other recent examples too, like Alan Wake II (and another big game I forgot) releasing as digital only.

[–] MajorHavoc 1 points 2 years ago

I tend to agree for mainstream gaming - on Switch I buy much more digital than cartridge for the convenience.

That said, I'm buying more games on Evercade than on Switch lately, because I expect the Evercade carts to remain playable in my Arcade for decades.

I hope my Switch with what I can store locally will do the same, of course. But there's extra comfort in really having my Evercade games on cartridges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago