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Anon buys a game (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 40 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Has that been true in the last decade? These days discs are basically just a license code to download the game.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I recently got a deal on Star Wars Outlaws (20 dollars) on Disk and Mario Kart World (80 dollars) on Cartridge if I bought them together.

    The disk installation took an hour, there was a 20GB patch included, it asked for the 2nd disk which failed to install as something from the first disk was incomplete I guess. The work around was to wipe the installation and re-download it from the online store - with the disk only providing proof of purchase after the fact.

    The Nintendo cartridge worked immediately with no issue.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [+] -10 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    You can't praise nintendo on lemmy. They are the scum of the earth or something, because they brick systems that get hacked/jailbroken, or something.

    And the 20 million folks who bought a switch 2 last year are all corporate dick sucking stupid ignorant fools who should have pirated everything on their Linux PC/steamdeck or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Just enjoy your console (or something).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the PS3 was that way, even. I'd have to imagine a lot of discs that are already out there would case to work the moment Sony shut down its servers. (And probably similarly so for Microsoft games. Switch seems much better about that, though they do sometimes require a firmware upgrade... unless you hack your Switch of course. And I have no frame of reference for how much that is the case for the Switch 2, but I can't imagine Switch 2 being better than Switch 1 in that regard.)

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