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In a promising turn of events for gaming keycard haters everywhere, R-type dimensions 3 Publisher Inin Games has announced that it will be able to support a physical release on Switch 2 that includes the full game on the cartridge. How was it able to manage this feat? It was said that this was all due to Nintendo introducing additional SD card formats for Switch 2, before later retracting all such claims.
“We are happy to share a positive update about the Nintendo Switch 2 version of R-type dimensions 3”, the company announced on Friday. “There couldn’t be better timing: two days ago, Nintendo announced two new, smaller cartridge sizes for Nintendo Switch 2. This allows us to recalculate production in a way that wasn’t possible before.”
As a result, it said it would move forward with offering a physical version of the game on Switch 2 that wasn’t a game key card. The only difference is that the physical version will cost $10 more than the digital version to account for production costs. This is good news, and essentially what every diehard fan and avid collector has been begging Nintendo and its Switch 2 development partners to do since the beginning.
ININ Games is retracting their statement about the new smaller Switch 2 carts.
“There has been no official announcement or confirmation from Nintendo regarding cartridge storage capacity. References to specific storage sizes should not be interpreted as official information… pic.twitter.com/V9yeCHynVR
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But apparently Inin Games wasn’t allowed to reveal that this was all due to new cartridge formats from Nintendo. The company deleted the original statement and followed up with a bizarre new one. “There has been no official announcement or confirmation from Nintendo regarding cartridge storage capacity,” the company corrected itself.
It continued: “Any references to specific save sizes should not be interpreted as official information from Nintendo. At this time we can only confirm that our upcoming release R-type dimensions III will be on a physical cartridge. No further technical details regarding cartridge specifications have been officially confirmed. Mmhmm. Certainly.
The good news is that it appears that other publishers may take advantage of this new development in the future, although some may still choose to create game key cards for performance reasons (running a game on a rig versus a cartridge can improve load times) or for the cost savings. Until now, the only Switch 2 cartridges available to developers were 64 GB cartridges.
Games that were too big, like Final Fantasy VII Remaketherefore had to go the game key card route. But it also meant that most small games found paying for the unnecessary extra space prohibitively expensive. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles and as a result, a bunch of other games were only released on Switch 2 as game key cards. Hopefully Square Enix and others will follow the example that has now been set R-type dimensions 3.
