Nintendo clarifies Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Switch 2 Edition doesn't include its paid DLC
Nintendo clarifies Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Switch 2 Edition doesn't include its paid DLC
This is something real to get angry over, for people looking for reasons, you’re welcome ;)
My purchases in 2025 won't include a Nintendo Switch 2.
No further questions. Thank you.
Got it for free with DLC on my steamdeck
Just got Second Wind working yesterday too! Care to supply your options to get better FPS?
I think FSR helps the most so far. Otherwise it's just older hardware. Oh and make sure you're handheld mode
If I remember correctly, I got Red Dead 1 to play on my Xbox one x (god I hate their naming scheme) and not only did the disc actually contain all the game data, it would also still function if I put it into a 360, and on top of that, my one x downloaded graphical patches and textures automatically FOR FREE. Even Microsoft did a better job about backwards compatibility (after eating a humble pie on the Xbox one launch disaster). Anyway dont buy Nintendo products. Nintendo bad.
nintendo isn't out here murdering puppies or trying to get people disappeared. disagree with their business practices all you want but it's not like they have a gun to your head. this "nintendo bad" narrative just because people are mad the the pricing structure is juvenile.
EDIT: yall can stay big mad and downvote like you won't just eventually buy the stupid thing anyway. lol. have fun.
No, it's because Nintendo bad. They are incredibly anti consumer.
Their pricing, legal treatment of free fan games/romhacks, insecure legal actions towards games that resemble their own like Pokémon and Palworld, their warpath against emulators despite doing fuck all to preserve their own Library in a convenient way for consumers. Yes, Nintendo bad.
Nintendo is the Apple of gaming. That's not a compliment.
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The question is, will Nintendo Accounts (the thing Nintendo made so you didn’t have to get a new type of account with every damn console) that already have the DLC be able to use it on the Switch 2 with the Switch 2 version of the game?
Technically, there shouldn’t be any meaningful reason why not. Aren’t the Switch 2 versions just asset upgrades? Maybe a wee bit of coding to adapt the existing software to newer hardware. So if they’re smart they’ll say “Yes.”
The best reason for a no would be that Nintendo will not have yet updated the assets that are included in the DLC. Meaning people who own the DLC would get to use them at a later date when the teams doing these ports have time to get to them.
The worst reason to say no would be “Buy them again, cucks.”
I had Breath of the Wild on Wii U with DLC and actually called Nintendo to try to get it transferred to the Switch or reimbursed. They outright refused, and said they were different products and I needed to buy it again.
My guess is they'll demand we pay again.
Switch 2 uses emulation to run switch 1 games. My guess is that the switch2 version is just nicer textures and a little make more fps line.
(Like that thing those evil evil hackers have been doing since 2017)
Shamelessly stolen from a Simpsons meme group I frequent.
I think that sums up that they're aiming only for parents with kids that would pay ransom for their products.
Pirating Nintendo games is ethical.
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Stephanie Sterling made this argument 8 years ago, and as always, is repeatedly vindicated.
(video is from before transition)
Of course not. Who would expect that from Nintendo 🫠
So... ok, hold on, this gets complicated.
If I understand this correctly there are three pieces of software here. There's the Switch 1 game, which can be digital or physical. There's the DLC, which is always digital, and there's the Switch 2 expansion, which again can be digital or physical.
So if you buy the physical Switch 2 box you get a cart with the Switch 1 game and the Switch 2 patch in it, but no DLC. Presumably, if you already own the DLC in your account, that's the same SKU, because the base game is the base game, the Switch 2 cart just includes the Switch 2 patch file in there.
Right?
So if you want BotW physically for Switch 2 you ARE rebuying the full game, which is a weird thing to do, but if you own the DLC that's the same DLC for the same base game. Same deal if you buy the expansion separately for your pre-existing game.
If you don't own BotW (or the DLC) this is saying that's not unlocked in the boxed copy, it's available separately.
I think making the Switch 2 version a "GotY edition" pack-in would have been worth it just to avoid people having to do this in their heads to understand what's going on. At the same time I wonder what sort of weirdness happens if you do own the DLC and they put a different DLC key in the cartridge. I mean, they could always just chuck in a download key for the DLC in a printed card inside the box, but I wonder if you can even build that into the cart and keep the same SKU for the Switch 1 game. I genuinely don't know the answer to that.
There's a new "DLC" that gives the game Switch 2 specific upgrades. Buying the fancy $80 cartridge includes this "DLC" on the cart, but not the existing DLCs. If you already have the Switch 1 game (as an install or a glorified access key cartridge) and its DLC, you'll be able to play that on Switch 2 and also able to buy the $20 "generation upgrade" as DLC for it.
The physical copies "have the game on them" but not the software updates and DLC, and once you've played on the updated version once, your save file is no longer compatible with downpatched versions. You're loading part of the game from system memory with or without a cart, so there's not really a functional difference between a physical and digital copy unless you plan to resell.
See how confusing it is? I mean, for one thing, BotW is fully playable offline on Switch 1 cart-only and presumably that remains the case in Switch 2. Despite being a launch title, BotW is one of the larger titles in the Switch library, but they still splurged for the bigger cart size, so no mandatory downloads besides DLC and patches.
For another, I'm not clear that the title updates will be downloadable in the Switch 2 cart. Switch 1 carts do have an allowance of storage to build patches into the physical copies (for re-releases, later prints, discount lines, GOTY editions and the like), so I assume the build you get in the Switch 2 cart is a latest-patch build. There's no confirmation on this beyond knowing that the functionality is built into the original Switch format, though.
So no, I don't think you're right. I'm not sure about what happens with your saves if you do own the DLC but you don't download it, or what happens if you try to load a fully patched save from the old game with a downpatched cart version, but I'm pretty sure you can play through the whole upgraded Switch 2 game (sans DLC) beginning to end entirely offline indefinitely just with the cartridge.
Oof, that's real shitty.
Aren't they just saying that if you don't own the DLC, the upgrade won't add it?
That's not fucking true. It's $70 if you don't own it for switch 1, $10 if you own the switch 1 version, and free if you own the switch 1 version and pay for Nintendo's online membership. If you own the dlc for switch 1, you can play it on switch 2, if not it's $20
But will the DLC still work properly if you already have it? Or do we have to buy a switch 2 version of it.
Same for Pokémon or any other games with DLC moving to the switch 2 with or without upgrades.
I am hoping all purchases transfer and work at least as they do now for the switch games.
Why would one of the greediest companies around pass up an opportunity to make more money? They know they won't lose sales.
Did Nintendo recently buy EA?
Close, they hired a former ceo of them
Ahhh, fuck. I didn't know that's where they found Doug Bowser.
I mean this game was in the top charts for 90% of its life until TotK released. Google said it’s been sold about 33 million times. Everyone who wanted to play it already got it. And my guess is a $10/20 upgrade cost per game if you want the enhancement patch.
I don't know how to tell you this, but there are more than 33 million gamers in the world and, this is where your mind will really be blown, new ones are growing up every day.
There is zero good reason for an eight year old game being re-released as an enhanced edition to not be bundled with its dlc packages. This is a whole new low, even for Nintendo.
It’s funny how when using any form of business sense your first paragraph completely explains a good reason for your second paragraph. Like you typed that all out not realizing you’re literally writing the good reason for an eight hour old game being re-released as an enhanced edition is that there is a new market segment for it, and they haven’t captured the full existing market.
Like don’t get me wrong I’m not buying the botw dlc, I’ve owned Botw since launch in Wii U and don’t have the dlc. I’m not some sort of Nintendo fan boy, but I’m also not an idiot who is raging at Nintendo for being ran like a business. Either this gamble will work (more than likely it will) or it won’t and they will find a new buisness plan. Like this is borderline common sense especially because it’s going to sell.
Anti Nintendo fan boys are experiencing major brain rot.
I haven't payed any attention to this so far, it's not backwards compatible?
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Yeah whatever, still buying a switch 2 and every game I already had one more time
70€ for an 8 year old game. And they don't include the DLC. Nintendo.
Nintendo never put old games on sale.
It would not be a sale to include the DLC on the Switch 2 version. I mean are they gonna offer it on the Switch 2 store? lmao
Free if you already own it on your sw1 isn't it?
Yeah