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They're making another Mario game?

Those are functionally 33% off and 25% off, respectively, just with the prerequisite of buying a certain number to take advantage of the sales. Sales like that are less common digitally (though I have seen a few cases where you choose how many games you want in a bundle and that dictates how much of a discount you get, which is conceptually similar), but equivalent discounts happen often enough. I expect that sales like that are more common in physical stores because they help cycle inventory, particularly getting people to buy games other than the one(s) they were planning to get so less popular stuff gets taken off the shelves.

There's absolutely zero chance of that ever happening. Even beyond publishers preferring digital because it costs them less (while they charge the same amount), there are many, many games that would never have been published if they couldn't be published digitally, particularly in the indie sphere where distribution costs frequently make enough of a difference to dictate whether or not a game is viable. Digital has its drawbacks, absolutely, but it also has some very significant benefits that I don't think should ever go away.

The 72/28 split is specific to consoles, but that's the revenue split, and a huge portion of console revenue has come from games like Fortnite that - by virtue of being F2P online games - aren't going to get a physical release (ignoring that Fortnite did have a physical release before PUBG's success prompted them to pivot into being a F2P battle royale). I'm not sure how sales themselves break down, though I have little difficulty believing that digital is dominating direct sales revenue as well. The convenience factor plays a non-trivial role in purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to sales and impulse buys (physical games are inherently more effort to find sales for and buy, so there's more opportunity for a prospective customer to change their mind).

All three will need to increase internal storage though.

Downloading a patch takes less longer than downloading a full game plus patches so disk is still better for me as my internet is terrible.

Seems like physical games are becoming less and less appealing, what with day one patches making them essentially an incomplete game that requires an additional download before you can even do anything with them. So, will the PS6/Switch2/Xbox Omega Delta Up Your Butt and Around the Corner Edition be digital only?

Articles about physical games sold vs. digital:

https://mynintendonews.com/2022/12/27/72-of-console-games-sold-in-2022-were-digital-vs-28-physical/
https://www.gamebyte.com/90-of-video-game-sales-in-2022-were-digital/
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I think the biggest indicator that it might be going away is revenue. All physical games sold in 2022 accounted for a little over 10 billion in revenue, vs over 170 billion for digital.

publishers would much rather digital.

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I had a friend in culinary school who discovered she was allergic to shellfish while peeling shrimp in class. Her hands like doubled in size.

did you almost die from eating it

You can't claim TP is the worst Zelda when Four Swords Adventure, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, and Skyward Sword all exist. I'd also say that Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 are worse, too.

It's a mid tier Zelda game for sure.

Worst Zelda game tbh

Horizon is great

Never talked to anyone outside CE

belts are inanimate objects and dont eat???

How do you answer this with a double loop belt where you feed it one way and then pull it the other?

Combat gets really fun when you start spamming status effects. The story of the past is interesting. It took a while for the game to click with me but I enjoyed it quite a bit when it did

Just come to sac and play with my pinballs live youve been promising me for years

Get started: https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2022/08/29/pinball-museums/

I like Gabriel Iglesias

that's always the first thing I think of even though everyone else seems to think of Zoidberg

So we'd actually get Nintendo games on PC? And maybe Nintendo can take some money from their legal department and put it towards developing new hardware?