My understanding is that the upgrade packs are only if you want those performance improvements. There shouldn’t be anything preventing you from playing your old switch games as is, especially with the save data transfers and the backwards-compatible card slot. So the old version should still be playable!

XC is one of a very small number of series that I will still preorder. I never owned a Wii U, so I never got to play this game. I’m so excited!!!

I mean, it’s probably a little bit of both. It’s not like people will just stop buying gas in the near and medium-term, and once they got the goodwill and looked at their bottom line they realized that they could just keep the goodwill AND the money. Classic mega corporation move

Agreed, I feel like they probably abandoned the plan because they realized $100M wasn’t enough…