I’m more let down that such a small thing is packaged in a big case. Made of plastic no less.
Yeah, I find it particularly weird, because Nintendo already had smaller boxes with the Nintendo DS. Did they decide that the Switch was a big boy console, so it needed to have comically large boxes?
so it needed to have comically large boxes?
Man you would have had a field day with PC gaming in the 90's!
In fairness though, even though some did skimp out and just launch a CD in, most had a manual and something of lore interest or a physical anti-piracy thing, and a fair few were stuffed full of trinkets or other world building material... just because.
Even my Atari ST edition of Zak McKracken had the floppy, manual, passport anti-piracy card, and a faux-magazine which was both hilarious and acted as a hint book too.
PC games in he 90s were like cereal boxes filled with a few CDs and a the barest of a manual. In the 80s it was the same except it was floppy disks and the manual was needed to get through the copy protection. Sometimes you’d even get a decoder ring of some sorts to decode something for the copy protection.
Good times.
PC game cases from 90s were amazing. I wish console games would do something cool like that. They were made of cardboard, typically had boxart with a bunch of high quality engraving, had manuals inside. They felt like collectibles and you didn’t have to pay extra for any of it. It was just part of the base game price.
They need something that both looks good on a shelf and is harder to just slip into a pocket.
They could make it out of cardboard at the very least.
I was never a fan of the GBA cases, so yeah I'm pretty glad they didn't go this way.
Same, I don't get people who throw their plastic game cases away
Well, aren't these supposed to be collected? They are there to help your sort through your phisical games
And my collection would do well with more GameBoy-size cases
I'd rather use a case with something to hold all my carts in personally for sorting. Better if it's small and easily portable.
But without those big-ass cases, there wouldn't be a market for these.
I miss cardboard game boxes
My wife got me a copy of Mass effect Andromeda as a gift once. She bought the physical copy (or so she thought) since that makes a better gift. When I opened the case, there was literally nothing in there but a code for EA Origin on a sticker.
Ea games are awful for this. I bought sims 4 when it first came out and had the same issue. It's so cool that I can't own games even if I try to buy the physical copy. I'm just glad that other companies haven't been doing digital only hard copies.
They literally sold you plastic trash that could have been a man email 🤦♂️
The height of new game glory for me were the old school huge boxes PC games came in. It wasn't uncommon to get a thick manual with wonderful art, sometimes spiral bound, maps, other neat add-ins. Even console games had nice manuals with useful information you may not otherwise know. I miss that stuff.
I still have all my big box PC games, and they all have thick manuals full of lore, character biographies and art. We lost an art form.
I wrote a similar reply to a higher comment without seeing yours, and I completely agree - I miss it.
I was a bit younger in the 90s and half the magic of the ride home was reading the manual so you could hit the ground running when you installed it/put the cartridge in/loaded the tape.
If anyone is old enough to remember Infocom games, they came with "feelies," just random fun stuff related to the game they decided to include. It occasionally was needed to solve a game puzzle, but usually not.
I can still smell that box. They had a certain smell back then.
When people talk about games having heart, this is it. Little unnecessary goodies just because you're excited that people are buying your game and you want them to be into it.
Why are there clips for a manual yet never a manual or even an info card? Seems like this started in the PS3/360/Wii generation.
Some games come with an insert or a manual, but it's rare.
And it's cheaper to have only one case design rather than two
.. and cloth maps. And developer notes. And figurines. And trinkets from the lore. And the game costing under $20. And...
Still better than just a code 😅
Those booklets were more joy to little me on the car ride home than the game itself many a time.
Be thankful there is still a case to open and a cartridge inside, for now at least.
Still sad to see, there’s no feeling like the anticipation that builds from reading a game manual on the car or bus ride home.
At least it has something in it, not just a piece of paper with an online download code...
They want you to feel that way, say "what's the point" and buy digital...
Physical I can sell again! Big advantage right there.
They don't like that part lol
Now you're on Nintendos list.
is this real? no way right?
For like a decade yes
Sadly, yes. Got a switch for Xmas this year. Went and bought a mario game, and was completely taken aback when the inside of the case looked just like this. I sat there totally feeling this exact post.
Untitled goose game was surprisingly the last game I bought that had a case full of swag.
Or a piece of cardboard with a code inside.
It's why I stopped buying physical games, I'll just pirate everything if they take away my digital library.
Best in box surprise you ever received? Anyone?
For me it was the cloth map and manual that came with Ultima 4 or something.
At least sometimes they double-side print the cover, this is just lazy.
I'm estatic! Look a physical copy!
Me too, all of these automatics and the paddle shifters... It's not the same.
The lack of game manuals in game cases still makes me sad.
Makes me sad too
Even better if it’s one of the games that can’t even fit on the cartridge.
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