This was also an issue during the N64's age due to the size of the carts and the durability factor, but in today's market portable storage cards are extremely cheap, so the high cost of production doesn't fly with everyone. There are other stories going around about how some publishers are raising the prices on their Nintendo Switch titles, citing high costs of production for the cartridges as the reason why. However, this turned out to be a flub on the part of the packaging. Previously gamers were under the impression that the publishers were attempting to skimp on the physical cart sizes by going with a smaller capacity cart while offloading the rest of the game's data to the online servers. So, it's standard fare business as usual. cleared up the confusion and noted that you would not have to download the additional data for the game. Of course, anyone running on a limited bandwidth service or forced to budget their downloading habits throughout the month would be royally peeved to find that after paying the full $59.99 price for the cart, they would still have to download an additional 13GB worth of data for the Nintendo Switch version of the game.
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