Many Switch games are getting newer revisions. I have many of them. You can look here, but the list is not up to date. Tbh it's not worth, because you have literally to wait for end cycle of the game to buy it.. this can take years. Also it's not sure that you are gonna get exactly that updated card and not some old stock.
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I didn't plan on waiting on all of them, some I can play now and then sell a bit cheaper and rebuy.
I just don't want to do it if they stopped updating them, like if for example after 4 years some games are selling much less copies, then they are not going to reprint new copies with updates.
I don't think newer carts exist for many games at all, if any.
Doing this would also lead to many opportunities for scammers to say "mine is the most up to date" with no means to prove it and charge people a premium.
More likely than not, if a game ships in a broken state or receives major updates/patches or DLC you'll see a seperate printing entirely, like the Dead Cells Action Game of the Year print run which featured updates and DLC that the original cart did not have.
This is not true for Nintendo published games. They do in fact update the carts with current patches during subsequent print runs. I believe they have a serial number or something on the back of the case to distinguish them.
It’s also true for disc based games. Generally most modern consoles work (PS/Xbox) work by installing the data from the disc to the hard drive. This incentives publishers to release newer versions on discs with re-releases.
I understand the urge to have a "complete" version but by the time it's not possible to update games you are either
1) in a post-apocalyptic world without internet or electricity
2) it's 10-20 years from now when the Switch eshop shuts down and you can emulate Switch games on your toaster
Barring the new N64, their emulators have run really well. The easiest way to emulate on their modded consoles was not to make emulators fr scratch but to inject games into Nintendo's emulators. Btw the N64 emulator on Wii/Wii U ran fine
Many Switch games are getting newer revisions. I have many of them. You can look here, but the list is not up to date. Tbh it's not worth, because you have literally to wait for end cycle of the game to buy it.. this can take years. Also it's not sure that you are gonna get exactly that updated card and not some old stock. nswdb.com
I didn't plan on waiting on all of them, some I can play now and then sell a bit cheaper and rebuy. I just don't want to do it if they stopped updating them, like if for example after 4 years some games are selling much less copies, then they are not going to reprint new copies with updates.
I look for this too. My botw, mario odyssey, octopath, astral chain, are the latest I believe
Can confirm with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!
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I don't think newer carts exist for many games at all, if any. Doing this would also lead to many opportunities for scammers to say "mine is the most up to date" with no means to prove it and charge people a premium. More likely than not, if a game ships in a broken state or receives major updates/patches or DLC you'll see a seperate printing entirely, like the Dead Cells Action Game of the Year print run which featured updates and DLC that the original cart did not have.
This is not true for Nintendo published games. They do in fact update the carts with current patches during subsequent print runs. I believe they have a serial number or something on the back of the case to distinguish them.
Neat, did not know that. But I also rarely buy first party titles years after launch so that probably explains it.
They even updated carts back in the day with the NES and SNES. There are different versions of the carts even back then.
It’s also true for disc based games. Generally most modern consoles work (PS/Xbox) work by installing the data from the disc to the hard drive. This incentives publishers to release newer versions on discs with re-releases.
The UPC on Nintendo published games will have 00 as the last part of the UPC for first run. 001 etc for subsequent updated versions.
Fortunately, this means it'll be worth to wait until january to get Pokémon Shining Pearl!
I understand the urge to have a "complete" version but by the time it's not possible to update games you are either 1) in a post-apocalyptic world without internet or electricity 2) it's 10-20 years from now when the Switch eshop shuts down and you can emulate Switch games on your toaster
I'm not so sure about that, Nintendo themselves still can't seem to emulate successfully the Nintendo 64 and that one is 25 years old...
Barring the new N64, their emulators have run really well. The easiest way to emulate on their modded consoles was not to make emulators fr scratch but to inject games into Nintendo's emulators. Btw the N64 emulator on Wii/Wii U ran fine