kitty.ly
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
cm0002@lemmy.world to Nintendo@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"

tech.yahoo.com

external-link
message-square
18
link
fedilink
54
external-link

As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"

tech.yahoo.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to Nintendo@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
message-square
18
link
fedilink
Nintendo knows that fans "have this emotional tie to their brand, and they want to cultivate that"
  • xyzzy@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    I will never buy a game-key card. I will stop buying new games before I buy one of those.

Nintendo@lemmy.world

nintendo@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

  1. Stay on topic.
  2. No NSFW content.
  3. No hate speech or personal attacks.
  4. No ads / spamming / trolling / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
  5. No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
  6. No console wars or PC elitism.
  7. Be a decent human (or a bot, we don’t discriminate against bots… except in Point 8).
  8. All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here
  9. Links to Twitter, X, or any alternative version such as Nitter, Xitter, Xcancel, etc. are no longer allowed. This includes any “connected-but-separate” web services such as pbs. twimg. com. The only exception will be screenshots in the event that the news cannot be sourced elsewhere.

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game Date
StarFox [S2] Jun 25
Rhythm Heaven: Groove Jul 02
Splatoon Raiders [S2] Jul 23
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave [S2] Sep 17
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort [S2] Oct 22
The Duskbloods [S2] 2026
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time [S2] 2026
Pokémon Winds & Waves [S2] 2027
Xenoblade Genesis [S2] 2027

[S2] means Switch 2 only.

Other Gaming Communities

  • PlayStation @ lemmy.world

  • Games @ lemmy.world
  • Gaming @ lemmy.ml
  • Games @ sh.itjust.works
  • World of JRPG’s @ lemmy.zip
  • Linux Gaming @ lemmy.ml
  • Linux Gaming @ lemmy.world
  • Patient Gamer @ lemmy.ml
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 2 users / day
  • 474 users / week
  • 809 users / month
  • 2.34K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 24.6K subscribers
  • 1.28K Posts
  • 7.52K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • slimerancher@lemmy.world
  • picandocodigo@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.19
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org