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LinkPizza posted...

I play multiple games [snip]

You're sounding like a very impatient person with very little attention span. You're also making a huge deal out of a rather implausible hypothetical scenario. In the event that all of your digital games get corrupted at the same time and you have to redownload every single one of them and you also feel like playing a dozen different games for less than an hour each in that same day, yes, you're going to find yourself unable to play whatever you want at the exact moment you want, and you're going to end up being slightly inconvenienced by the catastrophic failure of your hardware. In literally every other scenario, though, it's going to be alright. I don't think being slightly inconvenienced in that extremely specific case is really the end of the world.

LinkPizza posted...

Not as slow as you think. You open the tab, pop it out, pop it back in. Which is faster depends on when you last played the game.

Presuming docked play:

Digital - Return to home menu, close current game, scroll over to new game, open new game

Physical - Return to home menu, close current game, get up, reach system, open system, remove current game, place current game in case, remove new game from case, put new game in system, close system, return system to dock, return to seat, open new game

Now, the lengths of some of those steps are variable. If you can reach the system without standing up, that speeds that up. If all of your games are in a single case instead of being in their individual ones, that speeds up those steps. If you have several dozen digital games and the one you want to play hasn't been played in a long time, scrolling over to it can take a while (which I already mentioned, and I'm hoping they update the UI to make that easier as the system's library grows) (this is also true of finding a specific game in a large physical library). The fact remains, though, that physically changing a game takes far, far more steps than changing a digital one, and is generally going to take significantly longer unless you specifically set up the comparison to favour physical (have the system and physical games readily accessible, and compare it to a digital system with a very large library).

Of course, does that matter? Not really. You're never looking at more than 30 seconds or so, tops, and for something as infrequent as switching games, that's pretty negligible. But suggesting that physical makes switching games faster is just plain false (unless, again, you rig the comparison).

LinkPizza posted...

Also, maybe. But the switch is usually in the case, too. In that case, Id be without a switch, too. So, theres that...

I just said that I can fit the Switch itself in a pocket better than I can the case. The case is basically just for traveling, for me. Having digital games means I can bring more than one game along at a time when I toss the Switch in my pocket, which is handy.

LinkPizza posted...

In the end, it works for certain people. For example, I hate digital and wish it would go away. But for others, like you, it seems to work fine or well. So, eh...

If you acknowledge that it works well for some people, you really shouldn't want it to go away. That's pretty terrible of you.
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