{"id":41837,"date":"2018-08-22T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_diablo_iii_physical_release_on_switch_wont_require_any_downloads_to_play"},"modified":"2018-08-22T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:15:00","slug":"the-diablo-iii-physical-release-on-switch-wont-require-any-downloads-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/22\/the-diablo-iii-physical-release-on-switch-wont-require-any-downloads-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diablo III Physical Release On Switch Won&#8217;t Require Any Downloads To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7210b2de6c09c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7210b2de6c09c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Crusader Class\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7210b2de6c09c\/crusader-class.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7210b2de6c09c\/crusader-class.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Crusader Class\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Since the launch of the Switch, physical releases requiring excessive downloads has been a major talking point. It admittedly makes owning actual hard copies of games a tad pointless &#8211; unless you want to display them on shelves, loan them to friends or perhaps resell them later down the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A post on\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.pcmag.com\/diablo-3-reaper-of-souls\/116984\/news\/watch-diablo-iii-played-on-switchs-62-inch-display\">pcmag.com<\/a>\u00a0points out Switch owners won&#8217;t have to worry about this problem with Blizzard&#8217;s recently announced <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/diablo_iii_eternal_collection\">Diablo III Eternal Collection<\/a><\/strong>. The Switch release will reportedly fit all of its content &#8211; including the Reaper of Souls expansion and Rise of the Necromancer DLC &#8211; onto a single game card, with no downloads required. It means you&#8217;ll literally be able to buy the game at your local video game retailer, insert the card into your Switch and play the game.\u00a0As trivial as this may sound, it&#8217;s a sign of changing times when it is so frequently publicised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you relieved to find out Diablo III Eternal Collection won&#8217;t require an internet download to play? Do you think downloading part of a game is just a harsh reality of modern gaming? Could other developers and publishers perhaps make more of an effort? Leave your thoughts below.\u00a0<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the launch of the Switch, physical releases requiring excessive downloads has been a major talking point. It admittedly makes owning actual hard copies of games a tad pointless &#8211; unless you want to display them on shelves, loan them to friends or perhaps resell them later down the line.\u00a0 A post on\u00a0pcmag.com\u00a0points out Switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}