this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
73 points (98.7% liked)

Nintendo

23993 readers
7 users here now

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

|

Pokémon Pokopia [S2] | Mar 5 Super Mario Bros. Wonder [S2] | Mar 26 Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream | Apr 16 Yoshi and the Mysterious Book | May 21 Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave [S2] | 2026 Pokémon Champions | 2026 Rhythm Heaven: Groove | 2026 The Duskbloods [S2] | 2026 Pokémon Winds & Waves [S2] | 2027 Splatoon Raiders [S2] | TBA

[S2] means Switch 2 only.

Other Gaming Communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
slimerancher@lemmy.world
CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world
CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemdro.id
picandocodigo@lemmy.world
73
Nintendo to start adding a digital discount / physical premium to new first party Switch 2 games (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 days ago by TAG@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will sell for $60 in the eShop and will have an MSRP of $70 for the physical cartridge.

An opmist would say that it is $70 game and they are adding a $10 discount for buying it digitally. A pessimist would say that it is a $60 game and there is a $10 fee for the plastic cartridge.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These are ROM, not flash memory. Unless Nintendo is even more unhinged than we give them credit for.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've claims they use eMMC, which is flash memory. Closer to SD card grade than SSD, but SD card prices are up too.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I imagine they're using the eMMC data bus standard, but it's pants-on-head moronic to use flash chips for what's supposed to be permanently nonvolatile storage. Flash media is not storage stable if it's not powered regularly; ask anybody with an old Windows install USB drive that's more than a couple of years old and they'll tell you all about it.

If this is so, that also opens up the inevitability of the data in cartridge games decaying and eventually becoming lost forever. Your cartridges would literally rot on the shelf.

Actually come to think of it, I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to do that deliberately and be salivating at the very thought.