Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Now Reportedly Has An "Actual Cartridge" Release

@GarlicGuzzler A wonky port, which will have piles of dlc anyways, and also already had a fake physical release. Hmmmm, I think I'll get the steam version.

Too little too late. Going code in a box already ruin its reputation. This and Contra: Rogue Corp will not have my money that quick for trying to screw with us from the beginning. The things I hate the most this gen are code in a box (Contra: Rogue Corp), incomplete physical collection (Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1), and cloud exclusive titles (Kingdom Hearts). Once you show me how you'd screw me then you won't ever get my trust again. Not buying any screwy titles.

Physical isn't dying, it's already dead, and stuff like this is proof of that.

I've already got it on Card, purchased it from Amazon.fr 😎

Considering that the previous game is available as an all-in-one complete edition in Japan (import friendly), if I were inclined to grab this (and I'm not), I would rather hold out for that.

I don’t know why companies do this. Lego 2K Drive did the same thing for the Switch. It started out as Code-In-Box and then transitioned to cartridge.

Glad I spotted this in the NASB Discord, I'll be picking it up soon

@DogDetective The whole game got delayed a week for extra polish. Some people in the community think that the Switch cart release got delayed further as a result of that delay. Either way, it was only a month tops between initial release and the cart (someone in the game's Discord sent a picture of the cart a month ago) - odds are they always intended to launch with a cart until some logistical issue convinced them to go code-in-box first.

@Ogre84 Agreed. They are just wasting time, money, and effort on making physical releases at this point. Much cheaper to go pure digital.

Sides, the "collectors" only care about the box art anyways.

So it did not do well on download😝
So better get it on cartridge to make some money 🤑

@Shade_Koopa @Ogre84 Disagree with both of you. Physical media isn't dead, if it was they would have stopped physical media production already smh. Millions and millions of people still prefer physical when it comes to gaming consoles. (PC is mostly digital of course, but I am not talking about PC.) Physical media still make businesses a good amount of money still today, if it didn't we wouldn't see anymore physical video games, dvds, blu-rays, cds, etc. Besides that, there is still a market for physical media.

Also saying "collectors only care about the box art" is just too wrong to say if you are implying every single collector out there...

@IceEarthGuard If it's not dead it's certainly an empty shell of what it once was. Codes in boxes, incomplete games with day one patches, dlc, install keys on disc, partial titles in multi-collection releases, etc... if one is a physical collector it's a minefield to navigate sometimes. Can we call it undead?

@Shade_Koopa I know physical media won't last forever, and new physical media will be gone eventually. But that won't happen until many more years later.

@IceEarthGuard It will happen in the next gen or so. Xbox and Sony already have Digital only version of their current consoles. Even Nintendo did one with their Nintendo Wii. As I said, it's coming a LOT sooner then you WANT to believe.

*smugly looks over at the physical edition with cart that I got for Christmas here in Australia

Havent played it much yet though, Super Mario RPG has distracted me.

@Shade_Koopa When did Nintendo do that with the Wii?

@Markiemania95 Towards the end of it's life span. They released a Red Nintendo Wii without a disk reader or GameCube backwards compatibility. I think it may have been a mini version but not quite sure.

@Shade_Koopa I thought that’s what you meant. Incorrect. It couldn’t play GameCube games or connect online. It could play Wii discs. How else would it officially be able to play games?

So in fact, it was the complete opposite of what you said it was. It was a physical-only system.

@Markiemania95 heha! Woops! I reversed it! My bad!

Still, doesn't change the fact that digital only consoles will be a thing. A lot sooner then people would like to believe. It happened to PC, it will have to consoles.