Also conveniently means their newly price-bumped first party games will have an easier time competing with cheaper indies. Probably just a coincidence, right?

But, again, this is physically impossible with an actual cartridge. The fact it worked with digital copies was just a loophole that they have now closed, surely?

I assume this will be a deeply unpopular opinion, but I don’t really see an issue with this?

If you buy a game physically you can’t have the cartridge inserted in two consoles at the same time. Why would the digital version work any differently?

Many backwards compatible games on Xbox automatically get upgrades like increased frame rate, higher resolution, and HDR. They don’t charge for these, it’s just a feature.

It remains to be seen whether Nintendo adds enough new value to justify paid upgrades, and we don’t even know how much they’ll cost, but on the face of it it’s a worse value proposition than what the competition has been offering for years.

It has mouse controls and a built in microphone. I think everything else is fairly incremental and the added value will depend on what’s important to different folks.

Not sure about elsewhere but there’s a price on the UK official store: £395.99 for the system. £429.99 including digital copy of MKW.

Preorders open on 8th April.

Edit: Physical copy of Mario Kart on its own is £74.99. Woof.

Except this is not published by Nintendo or part of the NSO service.

Given how hard they’ve been pursuing anything related to Switch emulation, you’d have to be nuts to think they won’t try a lot harder to make it more difficult this time round.