- I frequently get asked whether it's better to
have your games library all digitally or all
physically on the Switch? And I kind of resent this question because it's not better
one way or the other. The best way to be is just get the game however you feel like it. It doesn't matter how you get the game as long as you're playing the game. But then again, I made the
decision from the very beginning that I was gonna have my games library on the Switch all digitally. And this shouldn't matter
to me, but it does. I like having all of my
games with me wherever I am, even though I never go anywhere. But this poses some
problems as a collector. Do you really own these games? What do you do about storage? Aren't games more expensive
on digital storefronts? Maybe going all-digital
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some physical games. Sometimes we just get sent physical games. Thank you, Limited run
and Super Rare Games. For collectors, Limited Run
and Super Rare are great. And I consider myself a collector, even though most of my games are digital. You gotta make an
exception for some things. I also will sometimes buy popular games If I know I could get them early. There's a local shop by me that has no problem breaking
street date on popular games. So I will get a physical copy if I know I can play
it a day or two early. A lot of times, I'll give
that physical copy away, either to my brother or to
one of you guys in a giveaway and I'll buy the digital copy for myself because I hate money that much. And digital just means that much to me. But that's a business expense and probably not something
that many people watching this can relate to. It's just something that I
felt like I needed to explain because whenever somebody
hears that I'm all digital and then they see that little cartridge icon on my home screen, they ask questions and I
got some explaining to do. And having that game a day or two early helps me do my job easier. It brings in more viewers if
I'm gonna do a live stream. It helps me get up video out earlier if I'm gonna do a video on it. Even doing a giveaway
is a marketing expense. At least that's how I
justify it to myself. One of the main concerns
for going all digital is that you don't
technically own the games. That's a little harsh. You own the games, 100%. It's just that after
you purchase the game, Nintendo or whatever digital storefront you purchased it from, could eventually remove the game from that digital storefront
or close down entirely. There are a lot of games that have been removed from consoles is in the middle of a console's lifecycle. There's a website, delistedgames.com, that chronicles games that
are delisted from Steam, the PlayStation Store, Xbox
Live, the eShop, and others. For example, you can't download "Pikmin 3" on the Wii U anymore, ahead
of its Switch release. So if you purchased that and didn't have it
installed on your Wii U, too bad, no warning,
just taken off the store. "Scott Pilgrim" has been
in the news recently because of the creator's
battle with Ubisoft to put it back on sale. After Telltale Games dissolved a bunch of their games just vanished. So it's well within the
realm of possibility that some of the games that
I purchased from the eShop just might not be available at some point. And there's a very
simple solution to this, and that's a gigantic microSD card. Now I'll warn you, you do not need a super large memory card for the Switch. I definitely do not recommend getting a one terabyte card right away. It's way too expensive. I think the best deal to size
ratio you can get right now is a 200 gigabyte. And that should be way
more than enough for you. I have an older video
that goes way in-depth about the best microSD cards you can get. But the TLDR is just
get a cheap SanDisk one. Speed does it matter, so you don't need to get
the premium expensive ones. But also I say SanDisk because I know they're reliable company, and there are a lot, and I mean a lot that of garbage microSD card
manufacturers out there. Samsung is fine. PNY fine. Kingston is fine. But my favorite is SanDisk. I have a very large library
because it's my damn job to have a very large library. I started with a 200 gigabyte, then I upgraded to a 400 gigabyte, and now finally, a one terabyte. It was actually on sale when I
got it, so it wasn't too bad. But $250 for a memory card
is still kind of insane considering the Switch is only $300. So I spent almost as much on a memory card as the Switch itself cost. Right now, these cards
are going for over $400. So I would say, just get a cheaper one. A 128 or 200 gigabyte and wait for a sale, like a Black Friday
deal or a Prime Day deal or something like that. You will save money by
getting a cheaper one now and waiting for a deal. The only reason I went
through all that is because I felt the need to have every single game I've ever purchased on this microSD card. So if any of the games are
removed from the eShop, or in the far future, when
Nintendo closes the Switch eShop just like it did on the Wii, I'll still be able to play all my games. I'll say it again. Most people would be just fine with a 200 gigabyte microSD card for the entire life cycle
of their Nintendo Switch. Nintendo games are typically
pretty small in file size, and Nintendo is very good at compression. Unlike some game companies. "Warzone", you absolute piece of trash, 200 gigabytes on my Xbox. Making me download another 66 gigabytes of data that already is on my Xbox. Also, if you decide
that the current amount of storage space that
you have isn't enough and you don't wanna spend $400
on a massive microSD card, you can always just get
multiple microSD cards and swap them out depending
on what games you wanna play. Just make sure the system is off when you swap out the microSD cards or else, the system will yell at you. Moving data between microSD
cards is very simple. All your saved data is on
the Switch's internal memory. So the microSD card only
has game data and updates and stuff like that. So in the past, what I've done is just pop a new microSD card in and rapidly re-download everything. Honestly, it only took me about a day. It actually went pretty quick. However, the easiest way
would be to just plug both microSD cards into your computer and drag and drop all the contents. Okay, I was not expecting
that to take seven hours, but I have 400 gigabytes of stuff, so. Nintendo has a listing on their help site that gives you a step by step, but it really is just as easy as dragging and dropping your files. You can even just leave
them on your computer if you wanna back them up. You cannot put your microSD
card into a different Switch, which is very annoying if
you're trying to transfer data between Switches, like if
you got a brand new Switch. That's another case where you just have to re-download everything. A potential downside to going
all-digital is sharing games. You can't just give somebody the cartridge when you're done playing it. So if you have maybe
multiple family members and you wanna pass the
game between all of you, you can't do that. However, if you have multiple accounts on your primary Switch, they will be able to play
your digital purchases. If you have multiple Switches, your secondary Switch can
also play those games, but it must be connected to the internet. And only the account
that purchased the game will be able to play it. You also will not be able
to use this technique to play games via multiplayer
with your other console, but that's not how
physical games work either. You can't just clone a cartridge. Lastly, games are more expensive
on digital storefronts. It's much easier to find
a deal on physical games, like at big-box retailers
or even on Amazon. I have never seen a buy
two get one free deal on any digital storefront. The PlayStation Network will
sell games at a discount to PlayStation Plus subscribers, but those deals still aren't as good as sales in actual stores. Now, this doesn't mean that
there aren't good sales on the eShop every now and again, because sometimes there are. But overall, you will find better deals on physical software when available. Personally, for me, I always buy games as
soon as they come out because I gotta be in the know. It's part of the territory here. And as we all know, when
games just come out, they're always there full MSRP. So I'm not really losing
any money being all-digital. Aside from the price
of the massive SD card and buying games twice, that whole thing. Okay, so maybe it is
costing me a little bit. I should just do GameFly. But the convenience of
having the game on my Switch wherever I am and not
having to change cartridges when I'm lazy at home is worth it for me. I don't have to go looking around my house for that game I wanted to play. And if it's ever removed from the eShop, I have the peace of mind that
it's on my Switch already. I don't have to worry about it. So the concerns you may
have about going no digital might not be all that bad. But of course, the best-case scenario is just be a mixture of both. Get whatever's convenient for you. Maybe you're not a crazy person and you don't have to be
all one way or the other. As far as next-gen goes,
with PS4 and Xbox Series X, I would love to be all-digital, but I have a feeling there's gonna be major problems with storage space. Game files on those consoles
are gonna be massive 'cause they already are and they're not really giving
us much more storage space because the hard drives are SSDs. Sure, you can store the
games on an external, but I could also just store
the games on their disks. But that's a whole topic for another time. What do you guys think
about going all digital or being all physical
on your Nintendo Switch? Which way are you? Have you had thoughts
one way or the other? Or do you just not really
care? Are you a normal person? Are you comfortable getting
games however you can? Leave it in the comments
below, add me on Twitter, any and all of this other
social media garbage. Of course, you can never be all physical because there are games that
are only available digitally. Unless you just avoid
those games altogether, but then you're missing
out on some great stuff. Anyway, we got new videos and
live streams all the time. Our schedule's in a pinned
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