{"id":93932,"date":"2019-05-22T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/hang_on_why_is_team_sonic_racings_opening_movie_missing_on_switch"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:30:00","slug":"hang-on-why-is-team-sonic-racings-opening-movie-missing-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/hang-on-why-is-team-sonic-racings-opening-movie-missing-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang On, Why Is Team Sonic Racing&#8217;s Opening Movie Missing On Switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8accb90f28538\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8accb90f28538\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sonic movie Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8accb90f28538\/sonic-movie-switch.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8accb90f28538\/sonic-movie-switch.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic movie Switch\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/team_sonic_racing\">Team Sonic Racing<\/a><\/strong> is now available on Nintendo Switch and other platforms, finally letting us blast around a variety of race tracks as our favourite blue blur and friends. As a matter of fact, we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/team_sonic_racing\">just shared our full review of the game<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested in learning more, but there&#8217;s something mysteriously absent that we want to investigate before you go.<\/p>\n<p>After spotting a number of online users mentioning the lack of an opening movie on Switch, we decided to fire up our own copy of the game to take a look. Sure enough, sitting on the main menu for a good ten minutes presented us with nothing more than said menu, yet copies of the game on other platforms treat their players to a super-duper movie to get you all pumped before hitting the track.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it for yourself below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cjKHHFLNLBA?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So why on Earth can&#8217;t an opening movie be present in every version? We can understand a slight dip in performance or visual spiciness thanks to the Switch&#8217;s lesser power, but plenty of games feature gorgeous cutscenes on Nintendo&#8217;s machine all the time. Surely this is no different?<\/p>\n<p>A quick survey around Nintendo Life HQ brought up a couple of suggestions. The game&#8217;s full size on Switch just so happens to be around 7GB, which means that it would just about fit on an 8GB Switch cart. As we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/feature_exploring_the_switch_tax_and_why_nintendo_was_right_to_use_game_cards\">explored before<\/a>, upgrading to a larger Switch cart costs a game&#8217;s publisher more money, so did Sega remove any data-heavy scenes to squeeze the game onto a smaller and cheaper cart?<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, should we expect the movie to be patched in digitally in the future? Just last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/mario_tennis_aces_version_3_0_adds_new_opening_movie_ring_shot_mode_and_more\"><strong>Mario Tennis Aces<\/strong> received a brand new opening movie<\/a>. We thought it was an odd choice to add a new movie after the game had already been out for months, but this tactic could make a lot of sense in this particular case, especially if space needed to be saved at launch.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know the answer to this particular puzzle for certain, so we&#8217;ve reached out to Sega for comment. We&#8217;ll make sure to update this article if Sega chooses to provide us with a statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Does it seem strange to you that such a feature would be missing from one version of the game? Are you annoyed at all that it isn&#8217;t available to watch on Switch, or does the inclusion of a movie not bother you at all? Make sure to let us know in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Sonic Racing is now available on Nintendo Switch and other platforms, finally letting us blast around a variety of race tracks as our favourite blue blur and friends. As a matter of fact, we&#8217;ve just shared our full review of the game if you&#8217;re interested in learning more, but there&#8217;s something mysteriously absent that [&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-93932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93932","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=93932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}