Also note, @worhui@lemmy.world, this labelling is only a Switch 2 thing. I believe it’s up to the developer whether they want to give warning on Switch 1 cases or not. But for Switch 2 games, it’s a requirement, and is always at the bottom of the game art.
The traditional appeal for GOG has always been old games. They have newer stuff too, but old games are the primary focus. That’s why GOG used to be called Good on Games.
Mario Kart World has a surprisingly large number of issues.
I still can’t believe the developer of one of my favourite childhood games Scrapland, are the sole developers of mainline entries of my favourite franchise of all time, Metroid. MercurySteam has come so incredibly far since Scrapland. That game was considered mediocre, but it was so incredibly creative and charming that the developers perfecting their game quality since their beginnings, I think makes them the absolute best people to possibly be working on Metroid games. I can’t wait to see what more they will do with the Metroid timeline.
The way you worded that makes me think that you think Nintendo’s own games aren’t on the cartridge for Switch 2. They are. All physical Nintendo-published games must by policy be contained on the cartridge, not be a game-key card. The only exception (so far) is Pokemon Pokopia due to Game Freak not being wholly owned by Nintendo and thus not being required to follow the same policy.
Otherwise, 99.9% of third-party games are sadly game-key cards only.
And there we have it, the fabled year of the death of physical game media…
Yes, sadly both Switch 1 and Switch 2 carts are flash memory. It was the same with the 3DS too, which is already starting to have a handful of games degrade and have issues or outright stop working.
While this is not yet the case for the Switch 2, the Switch 1 can be homebrewed and then used to rip your own offline digital backup copies of your cartridges. You can then continue to play the physical cartridges until they eventually stop working 15-20 years from now (or from whenever that copy was manufactured)
On the 3DS, there’s actually a way to ‘charge’ the games with a feature that comes with Godmode9 which is automatically installed only when you homebrew the console. It doesn’t make 3DS carts live forever, but it does SIGNIFICANTLY increase it’s lifespan if you give them a charge once every few years or less. If you have a 3DS, I recommend doing this, as even the cartridges that seem to work fine often have already degraded a bit, and charging a working cart is still just as good.
Maybe you don’t care about 3DS, but I just wanted to point that out since I’m hoping that someone develops their own equivalent version of this cartridge charging solution for Switch 1 games, and eventually Switch 2 when that gets successfully hacked, too.