Last week's introduction to Virtual Game Cards already showed a push of Nintendo to give digital versions the one benefit of physical cartridges, lending them to others.
Now the push for digital is even crazier. 90€ for physical Mario Kart World, while the bundled version costs 510€, so you pay 50€ more!
Of course this could only be the highest price that Zelda and 3D Mario, very few games could share. Most of them could go for 80€ like DK Bananza or even smaller ones for 70€. Otherwise pushing for digital is also seen by their Switch 2 enhanced versions. Paying a speculative 10-15€ price for graphical upgrades/NSO subscription and probably more for content upgrades like with Jamboree and Kirby are another thing.
Buying the upgrade digital is easier on the wallet if you already own the game, but paying 80€ for a game with this box art](https://i.imgur.com/lkTPM4v.png) is a direct insult. The top bar is needed to indicate it's a new console, but couldn't they have just written out Nintendo Switch with the Joycon+2 logo next to it which would fill only half of the top bar? The USK age rating logo has been notorious for being too large in comparison to PEGI, ESRB or Cero. Now with the bottom disclaimer text and even the "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" text it's becoming even smaller to see the game is BotW just from.the logo.
The box design looks like it's made as the funky mode+Knuckles EX meme, the price point is definitely too high nonetheless, but pricing physical over digital ones and pushing for digital software via new features just makes it seem the Switch 3 will be digital only at this rate.
by multisofteis