PC Master Race

Physical games with a huge asterisk. Some switch 2 "physical" games will just be a piece of plastic you insert into your switch that tells a server somewhere you can play it and won't actually have the game itself installed. It'd be a digital only game with extra steps

I guess certain games maybe only hard copies exist, but when you can just grab a copy off the internet and store it, I don't see the need for a hard copy.

Well, between their incredibly abusive behaviour towards fans making content on YouTube even though that's free advertising, the mess with the smash tournaments and them breaking agreements to side with some new band of assholes -

their previous efforts to destroy companies by patent trolling and their current efforts to undo Palworld that have pretty much only been prevented by them teaming up with Sony -

and their very heavy-handed protectionist approach to ROM preservation even though they keep taking away people's access to their older catalogue, I certainly wouldn't consider them ABOVE board.

Before sony's completely ridiculous 2024 I would have firmly called them below-board, but enshittification really hit hard, jeez. (Dashes were for breathing pauses cus that was getting a little long. I was also going to mention an issue with them being a lot less transparent with whether or not they'd ethically sourced their rare earth metals vs the other big two, but I don't remember quite when that was, just that it was discussed during the switch era).

Edit: tbc I still upvoted cus physical games ARE still important, but I forgot to mention that they don't let you downpatch digital games so speed running, or even just wanting to play TotK with the dupe glitch, is forced to sometimes be way more expensive thanks to REQUIRING physical AND having to play offline forever cus I think it tries to force patches?