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This Week in Games - Theatrical Rings, Dragon Kin, and An Excuse To Talk About Banana Hair

I'm not a fan of the direction Nintendo has gone in recent times. The limitations on what game card sizes third parties have access too certainly is one of the more annoying ones that seems to be affecting every third party release. Third-party has never been Nintendo's strong suit and this move doesn't seem like it'll help much.

I heard that card sizes are limited because doing a card smaller than 64GB would cost essentially the same if not more than just mass manufacturing a ton of 64GB cards. In fact, if you google "32GB microSD express" there aren't even any for sale, just the non express version. The cost of the cards is certainly a factor in publishers choosing key cards but marginally cheaper cards that hold less would not encourage 3rd party releases much if at all and as for alternatives I don't think anyone wants it to be digital only or have a disk drive strapped to the back of it. Publishers not wanting to print actual cartridges suck but those alternatives seem like they would suck more

Third-party has never been Nintendo's strong suit and this move doesn't seem like it'll help much.

I do think maybe one way they could save money is to have the Switch One version with the older and cheaper card that has an upgrade pack you install into the SW2 so you still get SW2 load times but don't need the SD express. That could work for cross gen games so I would like if publishers do that, but regardless all of these problems are built into the memory format they choose and while you could say that they should have moved to discs or all digital the format they chose is not expensive because Nintendo is arbitrarily refusing to let people use smaller capacity cards that don't exist.

DQ 1&2 themselves: It's clear they're already adding stuff like the Princess of Cannock being playable in 2. 2 in particular is definitely a game with a lot of balancing issues even with the previous remakes. Heck, 3 had a lot of features that straight up didn't exist until later games like the way combat skills work and even added a whole new class and brought back the superboss from the GBA version.

DQ 1&2 themselves: It's clear they're already adding stuff like the Princess of Cannock being playable in 2. 2 in particular is definitely a game with a lot of balancing issues even with the previous remakes. Heck, 3 had a lot of features that straight up didn't exist until later games like the way combat skills work and even added a whole new class and brought back the superboss from the GBA version.

Kinda of hoping for a release date for Capcom's Pragmata, instead of a contest.

I'm just assuming that's vaporware at this point...

I don't actually like giving the impression of being soft on Nintendo, because I do wish they were more open-book about things and I do agree that the NSO games are a horrid alternative to what we had with the Virtual Console. But people really wanna see Nintendo fail, and it disappoints them every time they don't.

There's just such a double standard. I can accept a company isn't perfect and has flaws, but I don't remember anyone saying NBA 2K fans ruined gaming for everyone by being the first company to set a $70 MSRP for a game, but somehow Nintendo breaking the $80 price ceiling means they hate you and you hate gamers if you pay it. It's gotten to the point I can barely even look at game discussion because no matter what the subject people find a reason to bring up Nintendo and whine or blame them for the destruction of gaming.