>>57660116And don't forget, Pokemon is 100% guaranteed to be one of those franchises that'll jump on digital-only with carts that only exist to be a glorified download code, further exacerbating everyone's old worries about the games becoming inaccessible in some manner once the console's master servers die.
Because why wouldn't Pokemon be digital-only? It gives Nintendo and GameFreak absolute control over what kind of data the game can ship out with, leaving next to nothing for street data breakers to datamine or ROMdump, and they can't have the finished product until the unlock for the day 0 download comes, finally putting a cork in that old leaky bottle.
I guarantee you Pokemon's tendency to leak before release is precisely why this shit even exists, if not secondary to Yuzu being a bunch of attentionwhores flaunting the emulation of pre-release TotK so Nintendo could realize how much of a bunch of assholes the emulation scene is if not overseen with a perpetually diligent gaze and iron fists studded with spikes.