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So one of the things that I loved as a child

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and one of the great things of video games past

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was the ability to straight Just loan your games

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to your friends This was a huge point of contention

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back in 2013 with the ps4 in the Xbox one When

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Microsoft started restricting loading physical

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games Sony doubled down with the infamous how

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to load games to your friends commercial and

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1e3 that year and arguably that entire console

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generation with their policies Nintendo in that

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time has maintained being able to loan physical

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copies of the Switch game, so you can just take

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the little cartridge out and hand it to your

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friends, but now they've unveiled a new method

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of loaning digital downloads to your friends.

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The new virtual game card system was unveiled

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today at the Nintendo Direct, and it looks, honestly,

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amazing. Simple, easy to use, great for that.

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Do we think this is the wave of the future? Steam

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kind of lets you do it now, but only with families?

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It's still pretty restricted. Is is Nintendo

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going to be able to set a new standard for video

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games? Jay, what do you think? Yes, yes. This

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is a yeah, roll the credits. We're done here.

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No, this is a it is it is pretty cool because

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I mean, obviously. Unless you're like a Gen Z

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er, right? Like we all grew up. Yeah, just trading

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games all the time. So, yeah, it's going to be

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pretty interesting to see what happens with this.

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But I think overall, like this is a pretty good

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thing. Is there like any sort of like fees associated

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with like nothing? OK, so here's here's how it

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works. Much like loaning a physical game. If

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I loan you the physical game, I don't have access

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to it, right? Because I've loaned you the cartridge.

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Very similar thing. During the process of loaning,

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you have to be connected to the internet. What

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I do is I've downloaded a digital game like Mario

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Kart or Zelda, right? I'm gonna load it to my

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friend Jay. What I do is I eject that virtual

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game from my system via the internet, and I say,

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okay, I'm loaning this to my friend Jay. Jay

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then inserts it in their virtual system, in their

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Switch, right? And then they can play it. For

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as long as they want right and when they're done

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they ejected out of their virtual system and

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give it back to me So again, you can only play

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one copy at a time Right, but again, that's no

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different than if I landed you a Super Nintendo

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game Right, so I don't see that as being a major

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downside to this I saw some people be like that

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Carter sir. I can't play it. No, no If I loan

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you a physical copy of my game, I don't have

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it to play. So I don't see a problem with, okay,

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I bought Animal Crossing. I'm done playing it

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for right now. I'm going to loan it to Jay. And

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while I've got it loaned to Jay, I can't play

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it. Now, some people are going to argue this

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is going to decrease. Honestly, I think this

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is going to help their revenue. I think this

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is going to help them across the board. Don't

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you? Yeah. It'll definitely like give people

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the chance to try games before they buy it. Like

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I'm like, hey, Alex, you need to play this. And

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you're like, I don't really know. I can lend

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it to you. You can try it for a couple of weekends.

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Give it back and then buy it right there. I think

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that that's the bet that Nintendo is making.

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Yeah. Right. Hey, give this game a shot. And

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after a couple of weeks, I loan it back to you.

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And I'm like, you know what? Yeah, I'm going

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to buy my own copy so we can play at the same

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time. Chat's asking, how long do I think so someone

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hacks their way around it? With digital rights

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management, they've gotten pretty good about

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that. I don't think it's going to be any more

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common than hacking games and romses now. I don't

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think this increases that significantly. The

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fact of the matter is, is that Most consumers

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don't pirate things. Yeah. Right. Most consumers

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don't want to go through the hassle of trying

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to figure out which pirating site and where to

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go and what to do and all that stuff. So I don't

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see this being a situation where people really

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want to go through the hassle. Do you? I mean,

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no, not really. And like a thing is like. If

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someone really, really, really wants to hack

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something, they're going to fucking do it. But.

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I think we're kind of past like the limewire

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era, right, where like everyone was doing it.

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Yeah, I don't know. I just feel like no one's

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doing it anymore. I don't know. Maybe I could

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just get old. I don't know. I I'll be honest,

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I think that's probably the case. Wow, that's

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damn. Yeah. Again, I don't see anything. I think

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that this is a good thing. And honestly, I would

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like to see more game companies start to do it.

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I would like to see Sony do it. I would like

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to see Microsoft do it. I would like to see all

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these guys go to a point where they're just like,

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look, if I want to loan virtually, especially

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where we're getting rid of physical media, right?

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Like, let's face it. I bought Assassin's Creed

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Shadows the other day and I didn't buy the physical

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copy. I went and just downloaded it on my PS5.

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Most of my games I don't own physical copies

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for. My Steam stuff, obviously I have no physical

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copies of anything on my PC. So, again, I think

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this is beneficial to the entire industry. Yeah,

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hopefully. I'd give credit to Nintendo. While

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they don't do it with like, you know, graphics,

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in a lot of ways, Nintendo is big on innovation.

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Like they really do innovate still in the video

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game space in really positive ways. So. Anyway,

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what do you all think about this this new thing

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that Nintendo's announced for the Switch? Would

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you? be willing to loan your digital games to

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your friends? Do you think this is a good thing?

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Does it help the industry? Does it hurt it? Let

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us know what you think down in the comments below.