Sad, sad times. SEGA need to release a physical-only system with sequels & remakes of stuff like Valkyria Chronicles, Phantasy Star, Shining Force, Skies of Arcadia etc. ... not to mention all their awesome arcade stuff like Outrun & Afterburner... and they'd clean up amongst the true gamers of this world. Let Sony & Nintendo have the digital, handholdy casuals who's idea of playing a game is watching a movie or bouncing Mario over 1 enemy with 99 lives in reserve to beat the game.
The fact it's a big deal when a game is released on the actual cart
shits 2 will sell millions and bingtendies will gloat about it
Marvelous is really based for this.
If only their games weren't shit.
I'm getting both Rune Factory and Daemon X Machina so good call. I really hope the carts go down in price quickly so this won't be an issue in a year or two though, it sucks.
The companies want the key cards to rot on the shelf to justify no producing physical games at all anymore. Thanks nintendo.
Marvelous
goodwill with fans
Don't worry segabro at least you're getting company soon
Having any good will left
Marvelous
lol. Fuck them for ruining Rune Factory forever like they did with fag marriage
Nintendo wants this too. All these companies want a digital only future as that's the last barrier to removing any notion of ownership.
It's retarded that nintendo only had carts that are tiny and cant fit anything or massive and 90% of games dont need
Marvelous
Xsneed
Good will
Trust me, towards the end of the generation games will need that storage. It will in fact be inadequate for many 3rd parties when games are already breaking the 200GB file size.
physical game have been in decline for years.
shocked when companies stop supporting it.
???
You literally voted with your wallet to make this happen.
good will left
build good will
anon do you not understand what they said?
That's where the technology is right now and the generation already lasted a crazy eight years so I understand it from that side.
Calislop game.
This is nice but gaymers are cattle.
They would only need to boycot these digital only games for a year or so.
Money talks and eventually companies would need to bow down.
But that will never happen.
It will in fact be inadequate for many 3rd parties when games are already breaking the 200GB file size.
A vast majority of file size bloat in modern games comes from uncompressed audio and HD textures. No developer is going to have HD textures on their Switch port so that's already a huge chunk of the file size cut down and audio can be compressed. Do not make the mistake of assuming that games take up a ton of disk space these days because they have to. It's just lazy/shitty devs because the modern mantra for executives is now "Who cares? Unused resources are wasted resources. Don't waste time optimizing, just get the game out."
The companies want the key cards to rot on the shelf to justify no producing physical games at all anymore
By showing how there's no demand for digital no matter how much you cover it up?
No developer is going to have HD textures on a HD console
Are your retarded by any chance?
retard calling someone else retarded
Every fucking time. The Switch 2 is still relatively weak and if install size becomes an issue textures/audio are the first things you do to cut down on the size. This is a fact. Everything I stated is a fact. Concession accepted, sit the fuck down and learn your place.
Plastic worshipping cultists are deranged
Hello yes it's 2025
Console manufacturers have bricked people's consoles for 20 years at this point (this practice started with the wii, used to be that Microcock would not let you connect to Xbox Live on the OG xbox)
Actual printed copies have been keyed since the gamecube
But I More Ownsorz this game because it's on a drive inside a piece of plastic
Also
Fucking SEGA
The company that's stuck DENUVO in everything and had a mandatory epic account requirement for fucking Sonic Superstars
Corponigger translation:
Making a cheap piece of plastic that we can randomly decide doesn't work anymore will attract more brain-dead consoomers than just selling digital games that we can randomly decide won't work anymore.
P.S. Input your payment details and address or we'll brick your (our) console
Also this.
Reminder if you buy a Switch 2 you're part of the problem.
"building up goodwill with our fans is always a good investment"
from a company that spent years burning all good will
Like I wouldn't even be too opposed to buying like, a Sega Steamcast a Steam Machine like device, maybe with their own "SEGA STORE" where you can buy some SEGA games, specifically, but I'm not AT ALL going to consider doing it until they start ripping Denuvo out of all their shit.
But the history IS there for it, since the Sega Smash Pack quietly included instruction on how to get the roms out to put in a better emulator, and they USED to just straight up sell rom files on their website, since they (at the time) didn't assume their consumers were fucking thieves or retarded enough to buy a rom from them to distribute when you could grab EVERY genesis rom off of the internet at the time.
well yeah that's why they are investing in it now
they don't have any left, companies don't invest in good will when they have a lot, they spend it.
Sega goes through all the trouble to do physical again
Sega has forgotten how to make good games
games are still dogshit and actually kills them for real this time
Interesting strategy.
Sega has forgotten how to make good games
SEGA is straight up notorious for being the singular example of a company that both uses Denuvo and makes good games.
Funny how a small publisher like Marvelous can do it, but Square Enix and Capcom can't
Weird how they murdered their former cash cow with NGS then.
We haven't even gotten to see the disaster thats going to be their clash of clans looking Golden Axe remake, or the live service Crazy Taxi
We haven't even gotten to see the disaster thats going to be their clash of clans looking Golden Axe remake
They showed off the new Golden Axe game.
Really the issue is that it looks like a generic 3RD Person Action game like DnD:DA
Why are people talking about Sega in a Marvelous thread?
4th word
Is that why all Nintendo games are on cart?
Why are people talking about a former hardware manufacturer that was brought up in the OP in a thread about manufacturing "physical" copies of games
it's been like 10 years since I only buy digital games so fucking whatever and cry more.
No developer is going to have HD textures on their Switch port
Anon, every 3d game on switch uses HD textures. Every single game.
You clearly don't understand how textures or resolution works.
still vomiting retardation and objectively wrong nonsense
I already accepted your concession. You're not getting another (You) from me.
I sure do love the HD textures in this 3D game available on the Switch!
most games use dogshit quality vorbis audio and you are still eek ooking at an article about titanfall you read a decade ago.
uncompressed audio and HD textures
you know this was done because spending time decompressing them was too taxing for the system to properly run the game so they stored this way to more quickly access them, right?
this wasn't done as some sort of too lazy to compress your resources thing.
Faster read and write speeds on consoles due to faster drives being used has made this less of an issue due to not needing to be concerned with having to do multiple reads or caching decompressed files, but has also led to some developers doing it more as its even more performant.
The biggest cause of filesize bloat is unused files being in every version rather than separate versions based on what is needed, eg every version has all of the language audio rather than its specific language, every version of every texture is apart of your download instead of preslecting the quality of textures you want so you don't download lower/higher resolution ones you wont use.
Even games that use HD texture packs as a separate download so you only need them if you actually want them STILL have the "standard" textures and lower quality ones in the game files
Not every game is poor with the data and localization files, but there are plenty of piracy groups who allow you to only download exactly what you need and if you try to set it to files you don't have it will either error out or even crash the game. These distributions are usually a fraction of the size on disk of the full legitimate game is on disk, and its due to cutting out a bunch of files.
every version has all of the language audio rather than its specific language, every version of every texture is apart of your download instead of preslecting the quality of textures you want so you don't download lower/higher resolution ones you wont use.
Awful lot of words just to come around and agree in the end that the issue largely boils down to audio files and HD textures. Thanks for proving my point.