NEW Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Game Controversy

NEW Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Game Controversy

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A recent leak suggests Ark System Works is developing an Unreal Engine 5-exclusive game for the Nintendo Switch 2, potentially a visual novel or action-adventure title akin to Hotel Dusk. Speculation surrounds Nintendo’s physical game formats for the Switch 2, with rumors indicating only 64 GB cartridges or game key cards (digital codes on physical cards) will be offered, omitting smaller storage options. This has sparked debate, as developers may avoid costly 64 GB cartridges, opting for game key cards instead. Additionally, Virtua Fighter 5 Revo is confirmed for Switch 2 with crossplay and rollback netcode, addressing past omissions. Nintendo also introduced a mouse mode for the Switch 2 home menu, enhancing navigation and gameplay for certain titles.

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SO it’s pretty interesting there was a leak 
recently from Ark System Works that they are   working on a Unreal Engine 5 exclusive Nintendo 
Switch 2 game from the another code team could be   like a Hotel Dusk or some type of visual novel 
action adventure game but we don’t really know   at this point but with that there’s been a lot 
of stolen and leaked information which I don’t   want to get into too much but one of the things 
that’s been kind of a controversial point for   people online are what are the options that 
Nintendo is offering for physical games and   just game formats on the Nintendo Switch 2 so we 
know with the Nintendo Switch One there were 2 GB   cards or more like 4 GB cards i think there was 8 
GB cards there was 16 GB cards and there was 32 GB   cards and with the Nintendo Switch 2 there was a 
rumor that all Nintendo was offering is I think 8   GB cards and 64 GB cards or potentially just 64 
GB cards for the full physical game in addition   to the game key card system which doesn’t have any 
real data on there you essentially get a digital   game that operates as a physical title overall 
that’s not tied to your account then of course   full digital games and now we have a little bit 
more information rumor-wise when it comes down to   that because there was this leak and it does seem 
like that is the option so you can go with the 64   GB card you can go with the Game Key cards or you 
can just go with the all digital release now some   people have wondered well wait a minute why are 
Nintendo only offering 64 GB cards maybe that’s   the reason why we have so many game key cards 
instead of actually having the full physical games   nintendo everything wrote about this also my 
Nintendo news where I saw the article they   talked about oh well developers are opting to not 
use it because there’s not a 32 gigabyte option   and maybe this is the case once again we have to 
wait and see nintendo does have two games that   would fall under this if they were talking about 
it right they have two games with Mario Kart World   which that is like a 20 something gigabyte game 
and with Donkey Kong Bonanza that is like a 10 GB   game or something so if there aren’t any other 
options then we would kind of know with those   although I guess Nintendo might have more options 
than thirdparty developers so right now it’s kind   of tough to say it’s kind of more of like a 
rumorish or more like hey we don’t know 100%   overall we don’t know how old this data is and all 
that there’s so many different things that I don’t   want to put it as 100% but I would say this when 
it comes down to the game key cards and also with   the physical games because we’ve kind of talked 
about it ad nauseium at this point it’s been   a tired old topic but people are really thinking 
that just because there isn’t a 32 GB option that   that’s the reason why developers are not opting 
for a physical or real physical release and man   it’s funny because we just have that option on the 
Nintendo Switch One and many developers also opted   to not release it on a 32 GB cartridge now I know 
that 64 GB is probably a lot more expensive than   32 but a lot of developers think 32 GB is also too 
expensive let me give you a couple examples here   you look at Hogwarts Legacy that game was not 
even on a 16 gigabyte cartridge on the Nintendo   Switch One and they opted to use I think like 
a 8 GB cartridge on Switch One and then you   download the rest of the data now with the 
Nintendo Switch 2 I think they’ve upped to   like 24 GB and they still aren’t using a real 
physical it’s a game key card just kind of like   how it was on the Nintendo Switch One you also 
look at the total amount of actual 32 gigabyte   cartridges that developers used on the Nintendo 
Switch One which there were a number of games   that would actually require like hey look we can 
get this on a 32 GB cartridge if you want to and   most developers opted to not do that they opted 
to do it like on a 8 GB cartridge or a smaller   gigabyte cartridge and then make you download 
the rest of the game just like a game key card   there’s only I think about five or so Nintendo 
Switch One games that actually even use a 32 GB   cartridge because they are so expensive so I’m not 
so sure developers would even opt for that when   they didn’t really opt for that on the Nintendo 
Switch One when there were plenty of opportunities   for them to use a 32 GB cartridge with multiple 
different games and they opted to not use the 32   GB cartridge at all so I wouldn’t necessarily 
believe that oh yeah all of a sudden if they   offered that option on Nintendo Switch 2 they 
would now with the 64 GB cartridge even with that   that’s offered and developers still opted to not 
use it so for example you have Street Fighter you   also have Split Fiction which is 71 GB but they 
probably could have optimized it to get it under   the requirement for the cartridge and they didn’t 
just like Cyberpunk optimized to get it underneath   the required limit and that’s like a 170 gigabyte 
game on the PC so they definitely could have done   that and they didn’t there’s also other games as 
well on the Nintendo Switch 2 when it comes to   like Hitman and other big titles Yakuza Zero that 
absolutely could have been on a 64 GB cartridge   and they opted not to so while I do believe yes 
if they could offer 32 GB cartridges and all that   that’d be great for developers to use them there’s 
not really a lot of proof that they would even use   them considering many many developers opted to 
not use a 32 GB cartridge on the Nintendo Switch   One there’s so few games i think like I said 
I can count it on one maybe two hands when it   comes down to it but there’s not many so I think 
really it’s just a cost cutting measure for a lot   of these developers to just use a game key card 
or do what they did on the Nintendo Switch One   essentially make you download most of the game 
overall but we’ll see how the process goes some   people are wondering why would they even do that 
in the first place i’m thinking it’s because of   bulk production if you’re only producing you know 
one type of card or very few types of cards then   it makes it significantly cheaper than producing 
like an 8 and a 16 and a 32 and a 64 that makes   it way more expensive so I’m guessing that’s the 
reason and as the Switch goes on and production   gets maybe a bit cheaper or gets more streamlined 
with those outside of the launch window then we   might see like a 32 GB card or we might see some 
other options available for developers because   it does seem like a lot of wasted space so for 
example Guardians of Azuma that game is nowhere   near 64 GB on the Nintendo Switch 2 but they’re 
still on a 64 GB cartridge overall so there is   some I would say evidence to this when it comes 
down to even before this Arc System leaks work   so we’ll see what happens in the future with 
the physical options or not but I’ll also see   what happens in the future with all those that are 
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go and jump into the next topic here and that is   Virtual Fighter 5 Revo coming to PlayStation 
5 Xbox Series and new announced the Nintendo   Switch 2 and it supports crossplay and roll back 
net code plus more that’s going to be dropping so   definitely a good thing here fighting games like 
I’ve stated before need to be crossplatform need   to be cross save need to be crossight they need to 
be on multiple platforms in order for you to have   the best chance for a fighting game in today’s 
day when it comes to thirdparty fighting games to   have success so let’s get into Virtual Fighter 
5 Revo that first launched on PC via Steam on   January 28th now we got it multiplatform here 
quote “I know we’ve kept you waiting our Steam   release of Virtual Fighter Revo is finally 
coming.” The PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X and   S and the Nintendo Switch 2 said Legacy Virtual 
Fighter Project producer said during today’s   Virtual Fighter Direct 2025 spring since Virtual 
Fighter 5 Revo’s launch we’ve heard your requests   for multi-platform support via the official 
Virtual Fighter Discord and other channels we   on the development team want to give users on 
all platforms the opportunity to enjoy Virtual   Fighter 5 Revo so we are happy to bring you this 
announcement in bringing this title to multiple   platforms we’re planning to include crossplay 
support and to make your crossplay experience   even smoother the roll back functionality used 
in the Steam version will be supported on all   platforms we’re going to include even more content 
to make this much more than a simple port which   we’ll tell you about in the future so one thing 
that’s definitely good here coming from at least   the Nintendo Switch side is that we’ve seen some 
developers update games and put them out on Xbox   and PlayStation PC with rollback neck code and 
then leave out Nintendo Switch in the past we saw   this with Samurai Showdown we saw this with Dragon 
Ball Fighters so this is definitely good news for   the Nintendo Switch Online for the fact that 
they’re making an update here they’re bringing   it to consoles and the Nintendo Switch 2 is not 
being left out with the roll back net code and   everything now we know there are plenty of games 
that have roll back net code fighting titles on   the Nintendo Switch one but I think that with the 
Nintendo Switch online test that they did they are   making big improvements to exactly how everything 
interacted and the reaction and the speed and the   net code in terms of things so they can make sure 
the developers when they bring over their fighting   games with complex roll back or with other things 
that they are not left out because even one is   too many and we had multiple we had at least two 
that I can count of games that launched on the   Nintendo Switch One got updates for rollback net 
code and were not included on the Nintendo Switch   One they were only included on PlayStation Xbox 
and PC in terms of things so yeah you definitely   don’t want that so that makes me believe that 
Nintendo has significantly upgraded the Nintendo   Switch online coming up with the Nintendo Switch 
2 or just Nintendo Switch online in general if we   are having Virtual Fighter which is obviously big 
game when it comes to fighting they want to make   sure everything is lightning quick in response 
and you’re actually getting that on the Nintendo   Switch 2 day and date with Xbox and PlayStation 
with roll back net code on top of the extra   content definitely a good thing to see overall so 
very excited about that and that’s pretty funny   that they’re actually using the direct moniker 
overall Nintendo really revolutionized how people   present things everybody is calling stuff directs 
or having these presentations literally using the   same name that’s wild but hey innovation that’s 
what it comes down to right so what do you guys   think about the Virtual Fighter 5 Revo coming 
over to PlayStation 5 Xbox Series Nintendo Switch   2 with the extra sweet news that yes roll back 
net code on all platforms crossplay I think I   said crossave i’m not so sure about crossave 
but crossplay for sure overall I don’t think   they said crossave but yes crossplay as well 
let me know in the comment section but let’s   also get into this next topic which I thought 
was very interesting and I made a little joke   on Twitter about it and there was an article about 
potentially Nintendo using AI images people were   accusing them and I thought it was so funny the 
write up from my Nintendo news saying that some   eagleeyed fans spotted what they believed to 
be AI generated images on various billboards   scattered throughout Mario Kart World in a recent 
Nintendo Treehouse stream of a game like you’re   not eagle-eyed we all saw the same eagle-eyed 
means that like oh man you spotted something that   people didn’t spot in the background or something 
in the distance or certain little details we all   saw the same images when I saw those images 
I know that Nintendo has always made little   uh like images for different types of things right 
when it comes to Mario Kart like fake different   uh advertisements or sponsors or whatever they’ve 
been doing that for a long time when it comes to   Mario Kart so the fact that some people were 
trying to say “Oh eagle-eyed for spotting out   images and accusing them of something that they 
don’t know at this point cuz apparently Eurogamer   reached out to Nintendo for a comment on 
this.” And Nintendo was like “Yeah um AI   generated images were not used in the development 
of Mario Kart World.” And that was the quote from   the Nintendo spokesperson and I always thought 
it was just funny because it’s like people just   accuse everything of being AI i get it like yes 
you want to know if something’s AI or not and I   understand but you’re not eagle-eyed for spotting 
that out let me just say that right now that’s   not a eagle-eyed type of thing to do that’s just 
accusing something of being AI just because just   because you want to not because you know it’s AI 
compared to something else so a lot of people have   started doing that once again I get it because 
there are a lot of AI images out there and yes AI   development is starting to take place in gaming 
but at the same time like I just thought it was   funny the write up and I never thought for one 
second that it was AI i know Nintendo said that   they don’t really want to use AI and stuff they’ve 
actually already commented on that so I wouldn’t   feel that any of their games would but yeah I just 
thought it was interesting that the write up in   terms of what my Nintendo news said in addition 
to just simply people saying it’s AI without even   having any actual evidence of it being AI you know 
but once again it is getting harder and harder to   see and detect the AI images in games and all 
that but yeah it is what it is there’s no AI i   just wanted to bring that up to you guys there’s 
no AI when it comes to Mario Kart overall the only   AI might be DLSS deep learning super sampling 
which is the good type of AI to make stuff look   better in the games and sharper so yeah anyway 
that’s that let’s get to the next topic here   guys we’re going to talk about the mouse mode for 
the Nintendo Switch 2 nintendo actually updated   recently talking about mouse mode to navigate the 
home menu they posted this on the Nintendo today   app so yeah you can go to the mouse mode and you 
can actually go to the controllers like where you   set up and you can look and see how to use mouse 
mode so you will be able to use it on the home   menu just showing off a little bit more of the 
finer little details of the system before launch   this launch is going to be huge overall there’s a 
lot of hype there’s a lot of talk there’s a lot of   misinformation there’s a lot of everything about 
the Nintendo Switch 2 people are just talking   about it whether it’s positive or negative it’s 
the biggest thing that people are talking about   online is the Nintendo Switch 2 one way or another 
we know about the pre-orders that’s something that   we’ve talked about before but of course Nintendo 
knows and they’ve said this before that hey look   pre-orders launch sales that doesn’t necessarily 
guarantee incredible success or anything but I   will say that the amount of people surely just 
talking about it at this point and the amount of   time that it’s taken to get to this point when it 
comes to Nintendo Switch one to Nintendo Switch 2   has left a lot of people wanting something a bit 
stronger left a lot of people wondering like “Hey   when can we get something that’s going to add a 
few different things to the mix and the mouse mode   and stuff like this is definitely a nice little 
addition not the biggest thing overall but I think   that for some games and for some applications 
it’s going to make being able to play the game   for example like a civilization right something 
like that that’ probably be a lot better on mouse   mode trying to emulate what you get on PC or even 
shooting games Metroid Prime Call of Duty when   that comes out later i think that that is going to 
be huge when it comes to certain applications with   mouse mode now the only thing that I’d like to see 
is that I like to see actual official accessories   for mouse mode that make it more comfortable for 
longer play sessions because the Nintendo Switch   2 Joycon 2Os are actually pretty thin overall so 
your hands might feel a little bit cramped after a   while i use a mouse that’s a lot bigger and bigger 
than a Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 and I know that   something thin would probably get my hand a little 
bit fatigued after using it if I had to use it for   a while so I’m hoping that Nintendo actually has 
something or even third party developers create   something cuz I saw people doing 3D printed ones 
and type of weird stuff in terms of shells for   the Joy-Con at 2 so hopefully we get something 
official so people can just buy it right there   which I think that there might already be some 
like third party manufacturers but we need some   officially licensed ones and stuff like that but 
that’s that when it comes to the mouse mode and   everything so what do you guys think about 
everything that we talked about here let me   know in the comment section below all right guys 
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