People spinning themselves into a tizzy to excuse these big/old game release flops on Switch. Comparing Nintendo in UK to XB in Japan is beyond laughable. Believing Skyrim is somehow breaking all trends by selling monstrously digitally is a hell of a stretch despite there being patchy physical availability, I'll be waiting for actual figures rather than screenshots of an online storefront before I'm convinced.
And all the ps4/xb1 SE had was a layer of polish, no game-changing gimmicks, but it still did better week #1 physical numbers than the likes of Deus Ex, Forza 3, Titanfall 2, Gears 4... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
System storage says no. The push might effectively be enforced on publishers due to the massive risk and prohibitive costs of putting out software on cart, but it's real hard to see Switch gaining any traction whatsoever as a digital platform when storage space issues are so blatant on the base machine. There's still a hefty premium to expanding storage to even anything like a mere fraction of a 4 year old launch ps4/xb1 console.
Nintendo is where it is in stature and perception because of simplicity, there's very little chance the platform is going to bust past a critical mass of sales wif tiny carts and big installs are to be the norm, not without a quickfire replacement unit with oodles more storage space built in - it's in Nintendo's interest to make this happen if they seriously want to court 3rd parties. People who buy Nintendo generally don't want faff and further expense. Sure, to anyone sat here reading ERA, simply purchasing and inserting a memory card is no big deal, but unless it comes in the shape of a newer upgraded box I see very little of this taking place in the wider, properly casual audience. It's the system's Achilles heel, to a lesser extent than Vita, but it's there nonetheless. Publishers won't be blind to this. When big games sell poorly digitally the writing will be on the wall. Any barrier to that speedy impulse buy is a huge red flag for publishers and should be for Nintendo themselves. And like the Vita, people simply aren't going to fall over themselves to play and demand the usual suspect large multiplats on the platform, noone is buying into Switch for that. FIFA and these older remasters are relatively cheap and simply ways to dip a toe and test the waters, it remains to be seen how they perform digitally, my guess is somewhere in the region of pisspoor to meh.
yeah, anyone who has used PS.VR for more than a few weeks soon learns that digital is the only way. Changing discs when you've got a headset on is... well, who the feck wants to do that? Digital worth the hassle-free premium.
