We reported earlier today that the digital edition of Starlink: Battle for Atlas on the Nintendo Switch is around the same size as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 12.7GB. However it has been revealed today that users who purchase the physical edition which comes with the Arwing model will have to download a 6GB day one update. It’s not clear what the 6GB brings but it could simply be that there’s just not enough room on the Nintendo Switch cartridge for the game.
Starlink Battle For Atlas On Nintendo Switch Physical Release Requires 6GB Day One Update
Do a review on Luigi’s Mansion please!
The game is not out here in the UK until next Friday. We’ve been told by Nintendo UK that we won’t receive code until late next week so our review won’t be on time. Sorry!
Airwing? lol
I thought the point of carts was to avoid such BS.
I don’t understand it either. This seems to be happening way too often with the Switch — not 1st-party games, but specifically 3rd-party ones requiring massive Day 1 updates. If that’s the case, what’s the point in buying the physical cartridge to begin with? You’re still locked behind a mandatory digital download in order to play the game, so if you don’t have a fast enough internet connection, or one day the mandatory update is pulled from the online servers (like when the system gets old enough to become legacy and is no longer supported), then you can’t play the game at all.
The bigger carts are more expensive, so the publishers prefer to put the games on cheaper, smaller carts to avoid elevating costs
Well, that’s just sad.i thought the physical version won’t grab too much data.
The cartridge version (dumped) has 7gb. Plus the extra 6gb day one update, you have those 12,7 GB of the full game. There’s only half of the game in the cartridge.
Only 7 GB on the cartridge? This is a bit absurd
It’s not absurd. It’s Ubisoft.
I hope the game doesn’t have so many bugs
Well, Mario + Rabbids wasn’t that bad, but this is a crossplatform release, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Maybe is because small storage carts are cheaper, so they use this system to save money and make people download the rest of the game
I can understand from a small company. But we are talking about Ubisoft
And if people can’t?
That’s the number one flaw with something like this.
I’ll pass.
Yeah, I was going to buy too but I won’t support this. I’ve been gradually just playing more and more retro games. There are thousands of games I never got to play from previous gens because of limited funds and time that are now dirt cheap. Ubisoft can keep their game.
Well I need that arwing so I’ll still be purchasing. The game looks fun, it reminds me of the nano assault game for 3ds
What a joke!
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Way to be a bunch of cheap asses Ubisoft! Maybe focus on getting the actual game running properly instead of the toy extras first. Thanks for basically guaranteeing this game never is able to stand the test of time and be memorable on its own or as a StarFox tie in once the successor to the Switch is released.
In other news, maybe this actually will work without the download in the same way the Switch version of LA Noir supposedly can.
I’ll still get it and play it. It may not be a good buisness idea, but it still looks fun.
Plus, Arwing.