Still limping along
This doesn’t mean Nintendo will follow Sony into a world without physical game production. On the contrary, the Switch maker said last month that it had no plans to give up on the game cartridges in the near future. But those cartridges could get more expensive to produce as Nintendo is forced to rely on suppliers like Rohm and Lapis Semiconductor for its remaining ROM chips.
That could have a knock-on effect on the prices publishers charge for physical Switch cartridges, too. Earlier this year, Nintendo started charging more for some physical games than for the equivalent digital download. And last year, Japanese publisher Inin only
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