I made these mock ups because I always like the horizontal version of the arts better, and I wanted to see how it would look like in the box. I kinda like it and it reminds me of the SNES / N64 formats. 🙂
by yugiQ
Nintendo Switch
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Would your vision of horizontal cases open from the short side or long side?
art fits better but it would be less convenient to display them
Carts are so small, they should have just kept the same size as 3DS cases.
The only issue with this is that they wouldn’t fit on any media shelf while being able to see what the game was, which I believe would be a first for gaming cases.
Nice design though, they look cool.
N-Gage style
Just what nintendo would want, to invoke the nokia n-gage
What if they were diagonal instead? Or a circle, or a square?!
Sometimes isn’t that just the art on the inside of the case?….
But unfortunately, horizontal cases are not economically or environmentally good ideas. Now since they don’t even put manuals or packets inside the cases much anymore, it makes more sense to make the cases smaller like someone said. But I guess for consistency they will stay the size they are now. Consoles want us to eventually switch to downloads anywho
Reminds me of the taco phone cases.
Awesome. I love these.
Hmmm I think it’s too wide maybe? Especially on a shelf. Something closer in size to the 3DS case may be a happy medium.
Go home, you’re drunk.
If they were more square shaped like DS/3DS cases, yeah.
Would love to see the japanese GC format on them
Weren’t these the kind of designs used for the Japanese GBA cases?
Slow content day on the ol’ Switch subreddit, eh?
Wow, finally met someone who would like the Final Fantasy IX Switch boxart.
Everyone saying ngage but I feel this invokes n64 (with the exception of the system logo being on the opposite side ) and that is the appeal of it to me.
Cassettes
While I like it, I think they were worried about how to market it. Remember they had cool tiny boxes for GameCube, but used full sized ones in the US because they thought people would think the console was weak by comparison.
I assume they wanted to emphasize that the switch is also a home console, not just a handheld, so a medium size case.
I agree the horizontal is better
What if the Switch cases were only slightly bigger than the game cards?
They remind me of the n64 boxes
It’s neat
I love it. I must be the only one that feels the nostalgia, but I think they’re awesome.