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Batman Arkham Trilogy For Switch Only Includes One Title On The Game Cartridge
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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.
Or Metal Gear Master Collection only have 2.4 GB on cart, of total 24.1 GB.
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.
I wonder how Arkham Knight will even run on this thing, it’s such a massive performance hog.
I was wondering the same when I watched the announcement
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.
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.
with starfield also essentially being digital only, we're gonna start seeing the last gasps of physical soon.
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.
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.