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Does the Nintendo Switch physical version of Batman: Arkham Trilogy include all three games on one cartridge?

Batman: Arkham Asylum will be included on the Batman: Arkham Trilogy game cartridge. Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Knight will require an online connection to download and install both titles when the Batman: Arkham Trilogy cartridge is inserted into the Nintendo Switch console. All three games will then be playable as long as the cartridge is inserted into the Nintendo Switch console.

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[–] gendulf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hate this. I want to forever own the game. Final Fantasy X/X-2 does the same thing, with X-2 being a download. It's not like I can count on Nintendo's servers being up forever, or at least there being a mirror site for downloading a game.

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It's practices like this that just encourage piracy. At some point Nintendo will close those servers, and in all likelihood game preservationists and fans will be the ones to keep things going. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a physical copy of a game. Especially annoying when they opt for digital downloads for a game like FFX-2 - surely both those games could fit onto a nintendo switch cartridge (they go up to 64GB) - but I guess it's cheaper for them to use a smaller volume card...

[–] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m seeing baseball scores for this Batman on switch post lol. Having said that, considering the size of the games I’m not too surprised but it’s still slightly disappointing. Very curious how Arkham Knight will look and play.

[–] Tempo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that's pretty typical for some of these Switch game collections. Asylum is the smallest so it gets to be on the game card (probably a 4GB one).

Still not as stupid as the Megaman Legacy Collection 1+2 physical release, where they only included the first collection on the card which weighed in at about 500mb~.

Publishers will penny pinch any way they can.

[–] StrayPizza@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They did this with the the Spyro trilogy remake. The cart contains only the first game and you have to download the others. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying physical.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how Arkham Knight will even run on this thing, it’s such a massive performance hog.

[–] got2best@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was wondering the same when I watched the announcement

[–] irishbreakfast@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I enjoy about collecting physical games is just the experience of owning the physical copy and popping the cartridge into the Switch when I play, so this doesn’t super bother me. But I totally get the preservationist argument for having all the games on the cart (or across separate ones) and would prefer that.

[–] Paesan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm different. The appeal of owning the game on cartridge to me is to have the entire game on the cartridge. If any significant portion is downloadable only, I see no reason to not just download the whole thing.

I can understand your argument completely though. It just feels like a waste of material to me when the cartridge doesn't carry the game(s) itself.

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