I bought Fantasy Life for the 3DS from the Nintendo Eshop, but it isn’t on my 3DS because I’d run out of room. I can never play that game again.

That’s the difference.

To everyone in this comment section who is angry at Nintendo, let me ask this: What is Nintendo supposed to do with people who gleefully scalp and pirating Switch and Switch 2 games without remorse to avoid having to pay? So far Key Cards IS lowering scalping and pirating on the SHORT-term. The real problem is that Key Cards will not work LONG-Term once online goes away.

What do you all recommend Nintendo do to counter scalping and piracy of Switch Games instead that works both short-term and long-term?

This is the same company that has already shit down virtually every digital storefront they have ever launched.

Majority of MSM, general media and outlets, is centralized, globalist owned and controlled media.
IGN alone owns the biggest global video gaming network of Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun and VG247. Then, shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry, Nintendolife, PushSquare, Pure Xbox and Time Extension.
Kotaku, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Macworld, InfoWorld, CIO, and TechAdvisor are owned first by Yahoo, now Keleops.
People thus know that the vast majority of so called game journalist are in fact payed, corporate-baked game “urinalist”, and their reviews are manipulative and lies.
Youtubers and even small reviewers also care about clicks and money only.
Metacritic and especially rotten tomatoes have already been exposed manipulationg their review metrics years ago.

Nowadays, using cracked games, is simply a legit and honest way for potential buyers to look through the ocean of lies, brainwashing and manipulation.

7) E.g. the 2020 Crytek leak showed that publishers make losses paying for denuvo
www(.)dsogaming(.)com/news/crytek-has-paid-e140000-for-using-denuvo-in-crysis-remasted-for-one-year/

8) In fact, valid comparisons can be made by the people themselves.
Go to warez site and look at the torrent tracker and spreaders for various cracked games, packed by fitgirl (the biggest packing group). All of big major video games as Horizon Zero, Jedi Survivor, Warhammer Space Marine, Ghost of Tsushima etc. have been torrented 5 – 100k (thousand) times only. The average and median is in fact somwhere in the low 20 – 40k.
That’s basically nothing compared to the few millions in sales for those big major games.

9) Obviously: Centralized & controlled online digital storefronts as e.g. Steam, Sony/Microsofts/Apples etc. store are super easy to control.
They can even abolish price competition, ban the use of third-party keys, force overpriced 30 % fees, payment options and things like that as has been seen now for two decades.

10) On top of it full spying & surveillance through that storefront, the bans of game modifications (see Capcom) etc.
Censorship. Say something against ongoing agendas or world views and *pew pew*, the account and access is gone.

11) The last one: This is the “You will own nothing” agenda, by the global ruling elite/globalist (WEF is just one of many organizations), aka their mixture of the New World Order, 1984, communism and stakeholder capitalism.
Abolishment of all privaty property. Communism.

We all experienced 5 years of an obvious fake and orchestrated virus-plandemic.
Cognitive dissonance and ignorance won’t help.

The people who still own games on disc, are the real winners.
In this 1984-communism-New World Order, the global ruling elite creates through Agenda 2030 currently, “You will own nothing” is their slogan.
Controlled and centralized online distribution platforms or even worse: full communism through shiet as game subscription/streaming.
(The mainstream nonsense told about Karl Marx, who he was etc. is all made up bullshiet. He was part of whoever global elite running the world at that time and had big financial financiers in the millions.)
Majority of human history is pure lies and connected, by whoever/whatever runs the globe for millennia.

2) This has been plain obvious for three decades, because majority of pirates never had the intention to buy the game in the first place (for many reasons as “just trying it out”, or lack of money. The argument that every pirated copy is a loss, is thus totally nonsense.
It also shows the difference between theft and piracy.

3) The main purpose is to fully abolish private ownership aka the second hand market, as execs/CEO from the industry have told quite a few times
gamesindustry(.)biz/the-real-cost-of-used-games
(remove the brackets).

And this is easy to understand , since people selling their used games, will use the received money to buy new games;
they had the intention to buy from the very beginning. It’s a circulatory loop (which the corpos want to fully abolish)
So 1 bought copy of a game on a disc, will be sold to e.g. 5 different other people.
That would be 5 potential buyers (who had the money and intention), who instead of buying 5 new copies, only bought 1 shared copy of a game; thus 5 REAL loses for the publishers/developers.

4) Another example was a major game cracking group back in the 2010 who did a test: they stopped cracking games of major and minor game publishers for a whole year. Afterwards they compared the short- and long-term effects, sales etc of multiple games.
Result: Basically no changes in revenue, profit, sales at all after a year.

5) Another huge study, officially done 2015 by the European Union (professionals) called “Estimating displacement rates
of copyrighted content in the EU”
cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
The multiple conclusions on 300 pages shed truth about willingness to pay, sales development, transactions etc. especially the one on page 164+.
“[…] For music, books and games the fact that one half to two thirds of the respondents would have been willing to
pay the market price or higher indicates that price is not a factor that could help explain piracy for those categories.
[…] Overall, the price is one factor that helps explain the piracy of films and TV-series, but the price does not help explain the piracy of music, e-books and games.”

Page 283 shows the “WILLINGNESS TO PAY DISTRIBUTIONS”. It shows the “coefficients of numbers of illegal transactions on legal
transactions” for films, TV-series, music, e-books and games, and it’s amount of legal downloads/transactions of physical media, streams, downloads, visits.
By comparing the number and fixed coefficients, it can be cleary seen how little video games are affected throughtout the willing and non-willing people to pay, by looking at the amount of illegal consumption.

6) A recent and obviously industry & corporate baked, pro-denuvo study, claims to show that the anti-tamper suite
– Denuvo DRM protects total revenue from piracy by a mean of 15% and a median of 20%.
– Piracy causes mean total revenue to decrease by 20% when Denuvo is cracked quickly.
– The characteristics of a game cannot explain its likelihood of being cracked.

However that study is absolute amateurish and uses nonsense comparisons for it’s argumentation as:
– Comparing games with denuvo against other denuvo games; everything derived from that is pure assumption.
That’s manipulative nonsense. The proper way would be comparing denuvo verus non-denuvo games.
– manipulatively and wrongly, games with huge differences in genre, sales numbers, production costs etc. have been compared.
This alone makes any legit conclusion, data comparisons not valid.
– Author didn’t sales data. Manipulatively the author is comparing purchased counts on platform steam versus amount of reviews on the platform steam and Metacritic scores, and then compares the dropoff of (amount) of reviews when the game is cracked.
Thats ridiculous nonsense to the maximum, using game reviews as a metric for data and comparison.
– There exists no predictable and reliable method to measuring the expected sales of any video game, music, movie etc.
The only one are pre-order numbers as it’s fixed, which have been not factored in this study.

Another claim which already stirs disbelief this study is manipulative and industry-baked nonsense, is uttered by the author himself:
– Piracy causes zero mean total revenue loss when Denuvo survives for 12 weeks or more.
Conclusively it means the long-term use of Denuvo isn’t useful for protecting game sales. If developers spend more money to have long DRM contracts (which they mostly do), they simply waste money using denuvo.
That’s how every major game publisher who uses denuvo is doing things. Denuvo got so good that for majority of video games using it, it’s only being cracked after few months or even a year. There are e.g. 0 games in 2024 which got their denuvo cracked. Hogwarts Legacy (Harry Potter) got got cracked only 5 monther afterwards, but still sold like hotcakes.
The authors claims, data and conclusions are pure assumptions made on nonsense data and comparisons; he has no real comparisons to work with.

It actually is about greed.