This is based on an inaccurate analysis from a non-expert.

Switch game cards use Macronix XtraROM. These games are rated by the company for data retention shelf life of 20 years at 85°C / 185°F. But it depends on environmental conditions like humidity, and 20 years is an extremely conservative estimate. It’s safe to say they will last much longer than that.

DS and 3DS games use an older version of Macronix technology, and critically also write to the cartridge itself. These will likely have issues long before Switch games do, although it should still be a long time.

Magnetic media was rated for a similar lifespan and in most cases still works fine 50 years later. The rare issues with CDs are due to manufacturing defects like glue separation, not the technology itself. These are, again, exacerbated by environmental factors. CDs are 30 years old at this point and the worst iteration of optical media, and the overwhelming majority work fine.

Different technologies, but just included for comparison.

If you’re concerned about it, dump them to SSD RAID storage.

One of mine developed drift again after a couple years. Not calibration related. I ended up buying the Hori joy-con replacements and they’ve worked great so far.

Why did they never release Disgaea 2 and 3 for Switch? Then you could have the complete run on one console, not counting D2.

With Final Fantasy, ignoring 11, you can play 1-12 on the Switch.

If you have to prioritize one feature over the other, my personal suggestion is to prioritize 4K and HDR over 120 Hz. You’re going to get 60 FPS for the vast, vast majority of Switch 2 games. Currently only one title in the launch lineup supports 120 Hz: a single game in the Welcome Tour. Mario Kart World, their premier title, is 1440p at locked 60 FPS in docked mode.

I suspect Switch 2 games in 120 Hz will be only slightly more common than PS5 games in 8K: Sony eventually removed the 8K logo from the box because basically no developer could achieve it and virtually no TVs supported it.

There may be game-specific performance modes with lots of caveats, like 120 Hz at 720p in docked mode for single player, but you would think you would see that with the showcase title. Instead the frame rate for MKW is crushed when three or more players play via couch co-op.

Least surprising news ever.

My ex once told me the story about how Leto tried to seduce her when she was 15 and he was 30. She went to see Thirty Seconds to Mars (his band) and had a backstage pass. She was just a fan. He got really weird and handsy and she got really uncomfortable and made an excuse to get out of there. Needless to say, she wasn’t a fan after that, and when she got older and processed it with an adult brain, he basically disgusted her on sight. Since then I’ve had the same reaction to him for the last 20 years.

She was very pretty (and still is), but she definitely looked underage at the time.

Third-person cover shooter RPG from the Pathfinder developers? Yeah, I’m sold.

AI slop

I was skeptical about how complete this effort would be, but I’ll admit when I’m wrong. I’ve got to say that Nintendo has impressed me with their thoroughness and the fact that they completed this audit by launch. It must have been an enormous undertaking.

Well we lost $11 billion dollars, ruined HBO as a brand, all of our terrible DC movies aren’t making money, we lost the rights to the NBA, and even considered selling off our brand mascots. So I guess Zaslav gets his full bonus for a job well done

This looks great! From the team that made Dragon Ball FighterZ.

tl;dr: The Switch 2 go to market strategy sucks, but it probably doesn’t matter.

What is the team size behind each instance? Sopuli says it’s “run by a Finn” (as in one person)

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

They said in the first trailer that she’s pregnant.

I homebrew everything these days, but back when I ran off-the-shelf adventures, I customized and arranged large parts of them as well. I didn’t do it to catch cheaters, but it would be very good for that.

Anyway, I just told players not to read outside sources and be careful about what you search for. I said if you come across outside information once, I’ll chalk it up to an accident, but if it happens repeatedly, I’ll remove you from the group. I didn’t feel the need to explain or justify that.

I had one case of someone searching a name to figure out the spelling, and they ended up spoiling themselves for a major character reveal. They were a good player and they regretted spoiling it for them themselves, and it never happened again.

No, he’s really not. He’s “both sides are terrible, no one wants to work anymore, and everyone’s too sensitive” center right curmudgeon.

2016:

“There’s been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle.”

“I think both individuals and both parties backing the individuals have a certain degree of insanity.” Eastwood said in the same interview, “I’m not on either side of the aisle. I think most Americans are going, ‘What the…? Is this all we can do?’ …When there were 17 people on the stage [in the early GOP debates], I thought, well, there are three or four people up there I could see voting for. They seem pretty good. I had a few…and then I thought, what the hell happened?”

In a red carpet interview with Extra on September 8, 2016, when asked about supposedly supporting Trump, Eastwood replied, “You know, I haven’t supported anybody, really,” and jokingly suggested that Trump and Clinton constituted a modern-day Abbott and Costello, referring to the bumbling comedians of the 1940s and early 1950s.

Then he endorsed Michael Bloomberg in 2020. That’s it.

Yeah, first, this is movies, not politics.

Second, what the fuck does this even mean? Clint Eastwood doesn’t make “MAGA movies,” whatever those might be, and although he said some things in support of Trump back in 2016, he endorsed Michael Bloomberg in 2020. Also, again, none of this has any relation to his movies.

I’ve got to say, the fact that these lists are so small is impressive. I haven’t compared the lists, but it seems like many of the issues that were previously found have already been addressed as well.

Not a great sign for physical media if even something like Dragon Quest I & II is a key card release. I can’t imagine they’re exceeding the storage budget.

This is hilariously melodramatic