 So what you're seeing here are the initial reports on the size of Mortal Kombat 11 on Switch. Now it is available for pre-order right now on the Nintendo Switch eShop. It's been available since late last night slash early this morning. People were telling me about it during a live stream and that's fine and everything. I'm not a big fighting game fan so I do not plan to pick up Mortal Kombat 11. But something is happening with Mortal Kombat 11 that I don't think we should keep accepting and it's not new so this is not an exclusive problem for Mortal Kombat 11. But it is something that I really really do not like. So the game is basically 22.53 gigabytes but there is a day one update patch 1.0.1. And the big thing is the base game and this is according to someone who has hacked the CDN of Nintendo is only 6.537 gigabytes. That means a majority of the game is a day one update. Now look I'm not here to tell you that this is anything new. We saw with NBA 2K18 we've seen it with Doom and other things. Well kind of with Doom it was only 9 gigabytes but man I am getting tired of these massive day one updates aren't you. And this isn't even exclusive to Switch this isn't just a problem on Switch Xbox has this problem PlayStation has this problem pretty much every video game platform has this problem besides I guess PC where everything's just downloaded at once. I hate the idea that developers can get away with putting as little data as possible on the disc or on the cartridge in this case and release these 15, 20, 30, 40 gigabyte day one downloads. Like why is there such a big why are you selling a game that's incomplete that we have to download the entire thing later like imagine that you bought a physical copy of Mortal Kombat 11 and you don't have a nice internet connection you're gonna have to go to a friend's house or internet cafe to be able to download the rest of the game you paid for. This is ridiculous this also means they're obviously using the smallest cart available physically granted this is talking about the digital version but the retail version is going to be the same six whatever gigabytes because that's that's how this works you know when you see the patches this size and the game files this size well that's what the game file size is so and who knows maybe part of Mortal Kombat 11 is playable without downloading it but when there's a day one patch that adds you know over 15 gigs of information to the game chances are the games probably not playable without that patch because it's like three times the size of the original game file size that means the makers of Mortal Kombat 11 have decided to only use the 8 gigabyte switch cartridge and likely this download is built around that fact like look we have X amount of data we're gonna throw on the 8 gig card everything else is gonna be downloaded and that's just how they separated it as well on the e-shop and I I just think it's ridiculous and again not a new problem so I'm not bringing up an issue here that is new or exclusive or anything to the switch but it's a problem that I hate in the video game industry it's not gonna be a problem with game streaming of course because you don't really download anything but the client it's not gonna be an issue inherently with digital games I think the idea that there's a 6 gig and a 15 gig you know separate download is a little strange but again when you're buying digitally you have to download the whole thing anyways but it is an issue with physical and it just the more and more of these things happen the more of these practices happen the more and more it becomes very evident how ready some of these companies are to move away from physical and I hate that that's a reality that we keep having to talk about and bring up on this channel why why are these companies so apt to get away from physical now granted I understand why Mortal Kombat 11 is on an 8 gigabyte cart why they're not using a 32 gigabyte cart that could actually hold the entirety of Mortal Kombat 11 because the cartridges are expensive and I get that and I get that it would be nice for Nintendo to cut the cost on the cartridges maybe even eat a majority of those costs to make the or at least encourage developers to use the bigger cartridges I understand that it's a problem and I've talked about it and Nintendo is not completely faultless here but I also think that Nintendo tries to see cartridges as a more sustainable future for physical games I mean look at this I here's a cartridge of you know the the what is this the Nintendo Labo toy com one or whatever like that game is still going to be playable in my switch without an internet connection for years to come Mortal Kombat 11 you buy that physically sorry without an internet connection years to come you're not going to be able to play that on switch what's the point what is the point of buying a physical game if you can't play it without accessing the internet now if it is a game that requires an internet connection that's a little different right like a fortnight obviously you have to have the internet for that and yes I know Mortal Kombat 11 has a massive online component but it has single player so you shouldn't need all that data to play it now this is where I actually give doom on switch a little bit of credit when you pop the doom cartridge in your switch it'll prompt you for an update you don't have any access to internet whatever you could just start up the game the entire single player campaign is on the cartridge for doom so to their credit the only thing you download for doom is the multiplayer aspects so again if you don't have an internet connection you don't really need those multiplayer aspects anyways so I honestly think that that's actually nice and if games want to start doing that and they want to start cutting out the online components making those an optional download and then put all the single player stuff on a cart that's fine that's what doom did but then you figure oh well that's what they're going to do moving forward now because they did the same thing of Wolfenstein to the new classes which by the way is a completely single player game so you had to download everything to play single player and likewise from Mortal Kombat 11 you're gonna have to download everything to play single player the online component is not 15 plus gigs big it's it's I think someone was going through some files it's like six gigs or whatever heck maybe the online components what they put on the cart I I honestly am baffled by all this and I I want to live in a world where it's different and I don't know what we can do is gamers to make it different are you just gonna not buy Mortal Kombat 11 is like speaking with our wallets gonna make them suddenly use cartridges that are bigger size suddenly put the entire game on discs and not have giant day one downloads no not really what's gonna tell them if Mortal Kombat 11 let's say let's say somehow we get all gamers in the world the boy com Mortal Kombat 11 which isn't gonna happen and it sells zero copies you know what's gonna happen they're just not gonna make Mortal Kombat games anymore or if we don't buy it on switch they're just not gonna bring future Mortal Kombat games to switch like how is that a future we want I obviously rather have the game and deal with these issues than not have the game and yes I understand there is still some value buying physically even without the game under there because you can kind of resell that physical cart like if this was you know imagine this was doom or something like you could resell the cart and the license key is on the cart so then you know you're basically selling the license key for someone else to play it and that's fine and there are some marketplaces that let you resell digital license keys I think that is something that needs to become more common but ah man I don't know about this one guys and again not a new problem I can't just peg Mortal Kombat for it one of the games I played a lot on switch and be a 2k 19 did the same thing doom did it Wolfenstein did it pretty much any big triple-a game has done it and again if you're on an Xbox or a PlayStation 4 you are not like immune even with the entire game on the disc from massive day one updates I mean Red Dead Redemption 2 despite having the discs had like a 30 gigabyte day one update like that's insane to me thankfully I have the internet that it doesn't matter but not everyone's as fortunate as me so please guys like if you're going to release a physical version do it right otherwise I I don't want to say like don't give us the option at least you're giving us a cartridge I mean this could be a Wolfenstein young blood situation where you don't even get a cartridge it's just a digital code inside a box like at least it is better to me than just a digital code inside a box but damn like if you're gonna give us a physical version like a physical cartridge a physical disc make sure the games playable off of that physical cartridge with a physical disc without downloading an update otherwise what the hell is the point anyways I guess resale values the point having more cartridges to dive in to like your Scrooge McDuck in his in his money vault I don't know be sure to enter our Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate give away through the gleam that I like down in the description it is up switch bundle giveaway yeah like hey at least when you I mean that's a digital code but at least when you buy a physical version of smash it just works right away you don't have to download an update that's kind of nice oh why can't work games be like that yeah anyways and also Nintendo Nintendo doesn't do things the same as third parties oh well all right I'll catch you guys in the next video