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.
It would make more sense if we could backup the updates and DLC to a external source or just include a flash chip on the carts that can store the dlc. Makes zero sense to have physical media and no way to ensure its up to date for the day Nintendo shuts that server off.
It would be nice, but Nintendo is against it for copyright reasons.
Same reason they sued Gary Bowser into the ground.
Making read/writeable cartridges would increase manufacturing costs even more.
Oh no! These poor billionaires!
Not sure what you’re trying to say. The costs will get passed on to consumers. They already are, but that’d be even moreso.
I am not sure if you can do it on a Switch, but I recall the 3DS having a feature where you could pull patches and DLC from one console to another. Not even close to what you were suggesting, but it is something.
Do any software stores support creating a local package mirror? I suppose you can make one for GoG by periodically checking for new game versions and saving the installer to a backup.
Not just the installers, but plenty of games (all of GOG’s catalog, but also a bunch on Steam) don’t have DRM at all. They’ll work just fine if you run the executable file without the “store” running (even if you got the exe file from Steam/etc and can’t re-download without a login thus functional servers and account in good standing and internet connection).