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It's a shame. The beautiful thing about Switch game cards is that you can just pop them in and play. Compare that to PS5 where you have a lengthy installation f

• rincebrain 1y ago
  As other people have observed, some Switch games did this too, in part or whole, it just wasn't branded as a distinct feature like this, the games just said "you need to download a day 1 update", like in your example.
  • musicale 1y ago
    I have yet to run into a single-player or local multiplayer Switch game that is not playable offline with just the cartridge. Some single-player games have updates, but I think you can usually play the original version while you download the update, and the update usually isn't 40GB.
    • rincebrain 1y ago
      At least personally, I've resigned myself to games being purely digital and most of my games aren't carts for the Switch, but I believe a number of the smaller indie games were basically just download codes in a box, or a cart that required downloading some of the core functionality. (I wanted to say it was Goat Simulator for Switch that I was thinking of, but I can't find any proof of this.) https://old.reddit.com/r/NSCollectors/comments/dzquth/physical_games_with_required_download/ https://old.reddit.com/r/NSCollectors/comments/dzquth/physic... is a thread about this, and it lists that the Spyro collection only allowed you to access the first world of each game in the collection without a download.