Or maybe because it’s a really good game…

Alternate take: Switch 2 owners are an ideal demographic if you need someone that will pay money for the same game over and over again ad infinitum.

Means absolutely nothing without the sale number. Anyone can sell out by shipping the bare minimum.

The remaster was shit in my opinion in any case.

I’m not sure there’s enough there to suggest it’s because it’s a physical release. The game sold well on all fronts. But the fact it is a physical release and entirely on the cart does score free points.

Wtf, an sd card ? Considered a good old physical game support ? What about your saves ?

I don't thing you could argue a Nintendo cares about you.

"Sold out" means nothing by itself. How many did they produce.

Indiana Jones on Switch 2, also from them and in that case the only real physical version, seems to be sold out all over the place too.

I think there's a market there for sure. But I don't know that we should read too much into it. Could mean there's a ton of demand, or could just mean they way undershot their estimates for how many to ship.

Sony is very well aware of the popularity of physical media for games. 80% of their sales are digital, and cost are higher for physical media, and the share is declining.

Don't ever think there is a gotcha moment on this issue that Sony wasn't aware of. They've been in this business for 30+ years.

They support physical media until 2028, after which new games will not come out on physical media anymore.
It's not like Microsoft that tried to launch a new console, that out of the blue abandoned support for physical media.

But but but Sony said we had to cater to the digital only people, and every physical copy deprives them of three digital licenses!