According to Mitch Dyer, who previously worked for IGN and wrote the article in question, states he was forced by the site’s editors at the time (Steve Butts and Tal Blevins) to include “forced gossip” in the report.
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Of course, Nintendo has always preferred physical sales, especially since they skew to a younger audience, and kids want games for their birthdays and holidays. They go to the store and pick the game they want.
Since the Wii they have always been the last major publisher to support modern tech or concepts, and they will be the last to support physical if it ever goes away. Which I hope it doesn't.
Nintendo just likes sales in general. If they can sell digital more, they would because the 2nd hand market they do not get a cut of. For me, i tend to buy more physical switch games than I do other platforms. I do have my fair share of digital deals from the eshop though. Especially if its something that i have a sealed physical copy of and dont want to reduce its value.
OK, but you need better format where these games could actually fit instead of half of the game being in physical form and all I have being on a digital code or have to download
The one caveat with cartridges. If the leaks are true the internal storage stands at 256gb plus SD card support too.
You could have a 256gb card and a 10gb card. Publishers will simply use the 10gb one and make you download the rest.
There are cards that can fit all of a game but those cost more, and publishers are cheap. It's weird cause with how much the switch has sold and how long it's been on the market the costs to manufacture these cards should've been much lower by now. It's a publisher issue cause there has only been very few exceptions on PS and Xbox, rest of the industry would rather force a download despite Blu-ray being cheap.
Your right. It's definitely a publisher issue. From my time collecting that's what I've come across. Just always remember
Doesitplay.org
Tell you everything you need to know about releases.
Pretty sure most, if not all, of Nintendo first party titles are all on cartridge. It’s the third parties.
Yeah it artificially retains the high prices for their software. Hence Pirates will always have their day with them.
"They forced an unproven claim onto http://IGN.com with my name on it, against my will, to "protect their relationship with Sony."
When Sony justifiably condemned our story, Steve and Tal were SILENT. They never went to bat for me for a second.
Huh? They forced an unproven claim in the story to "protect their relationship with Sony" which Sony later condemned? How exactly was that "protecting" their relationship with Sony? Those editors sound like total dumbasses.
Steve Butts was later fired from IGN for misconduct:
https://www.polygon.com/201...
"These are the guys who would later publish a story on http://IGN.com stating THE LAST GUARDIAN IS CANCELED."
I remember that, lol
this was debunked in Schrier's book, but IGN is still not out of this. that original article should be updated, or excised...
This is a very dangerous statement if he what he says is true they purposely did things to remain in good standing with publishers/companies this makes them extremely untrustworthy.
How can we trust them to review anything with honesty if they want to be on good standings with a company hell their reviews become meaningless if they are afraid to step on toes.
Also shame on them for painting that narrative if not true.
As far as I know it was a creative difference not a hostile takeover. ND simply didn't want to go with Amy's vision and she was basically like yeah I'm done peace out