So anyone want to start a campaign to get publishers to offer deluxe editions for $10 more that include both games on one cart? Kinda stinks this one will be split up half physical and half digital when they could all theoretically fit on the same cart.

Historically cartridge systems would see a general increase in cartridge size as the generation went on.  Does anyone know if that happened with the DS or 3DS?  By then companies weren't bragging about meg size (100 MEG SHOCK!!) and the DS systems didn't have to deal with ports from disc based systems enough to make it an issue like it was with the N64 so I don't know if that happened or if it was just one size all throughout.

Clearly this has become an issue again.  We're still getting the games because the digital downloads makes it still viable with a smaller cart but I wonder if there is a possibility of bigger carts being possible in the future.  Though will publishers even care if they can just go for the smallest and thus cheapest size each time and sell glorified download codes?  With Resident Evil 2 Capcom NEEDED a bigger cart to release it on the N64.  Back then either the whole game fit or it didn't get released.

There are bigger carts available now than a lot of developers are using, they're just more expensive. Hopefully that'll come down over time.

Resident Evil Revelaitons was a big deal because it came on a 4GB chip and cost $50.

While I thoroughly dislike the practice of making a physical release partially download (outside of DLC and patches), companies have been doing this since at least PS3. The God of War Saga Collection included download codes for the PSP entries. There was a mild controversy concerning the download code voucher having an expiration date. If you sent your receipt and the voucher to Sony, you could get a working code. Still, come on, guys.........

Ultimately, is anyone that doesn't like this going to actually have some self-control and not buy it?  And will enough people do that?  And if they do that will Capcom even interpret it correctly or just notice that the physical sales are way down compared to digital and come to the conclusion to not bother with physical versions altogether?

Realistically the person that would truly be upset about this would be someone without internet access or very slow and restricted access, who bought the physical copy assuming they would get the whole thing and instead they could only access half.  That's the customer with a really legit gripe, not so much the collector who is thinking more if his game will work in 20 years when the servers are gone.  I'm thinking that people in those scenarios are becoming pretty rare because clearly publishers aren't scared of offending those people.  9 years ago the digital-only PSP Go flopped but today it might not be so scary for a company to try something like that.  I don't like it but clearly the market doesn't care that much.

I'm just going to get the PS4 versions instead. If both were physical on Switch it would be no contest.

The 4GB 3DS card is still the limit. DS games got steadily bigger through the system's life, but I think the most they ever got was 512MB.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I already didn’t buy Resident Evil Revelations Collection and Bayonetta 1 and 2 for this reason. However, I probably could have talked myself into the former if Revelations 2 was physical instead of 1 (don’t need to triple dip on 1) and the latter if it wasn’t $60.

I won't let it hold me back from the games I truly want, and I agree I don't want to send the wrong message, but that is why I figure making noise about being willing to pay more for an all-physical version is a fair compromise. Let the people who care pay more, and those that don't can buy the "standard" version with only half the game included. I'm pretty sure $10 a pop is more than enough to cover the costs and give them a bit of a profit. I recall the costs for larger carts only being a few bucks more.

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This isn't a limitation of cart size, a 4G or 8G cart could easily fit the data. They're just being stingy.

But these are HD versions of MMX. The HD assets alone would boost the size up I am sure.