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Best answer: Whether you prefer digital or physical, there are pros and cons to each. Those who don't want to swap cartridges should go digital and would be wise to invest in a microSD card, while those looking to start a collection or anticipate trading games in down the line would want to go physical and should look into a game case.

• Amazon: Samsung EVO Select 256GB microSD Card ($55)
• Amazon: HORI Game Card Case ($10)

The most obvious benefit of downloading a digital copy of a game onto your console is the fact that it doesn't take up any physical space. You won't have a shelf full of old Switch games that you never play anymore. You also don't have to worry about losing the cartridges. Your little brother can't steal them and take it to a friend's house. Your parents can't take them away from you when you're grounded (although I suppose they could just take away the entire console).

Another great reason to go digital is that you'll always have all of your games with you, no matter where you go. This is especially useful for mobile gaming on the Switch. Whether you download games directly to the console or a microSD card, you don't have to worry about carrying a case filled with cartridges around.

Digital games offer convenience at the cost of true ownership.

Preordering games can be even more of a delight. When you preorder the digital download of a game from Nintendo, it gets pre-loaded onto your device at the time of your order. You can then start playing it right after midnight on the day of its official release. There's no waiting in line and no waiting for a delivery. If you stay up late enough, you could have most of the game completed before your friends even get up for work.

Not to sound like a tree-hugging hippie, but digital downloads also cut down on the amount of waste produced for a game. Instead of dealing with the plastic of the cartridges, case, and sealed packaging, you are dealing with ones and zeroes. It's a much more environmentally friendly way to consume media.

If you're going digital, a microSD card should be high on your list of priorities. The Nintendo Switch only has 32GB of internal storage, some of which is eaten up by the system. That'll be enough to download a few games, but you'll quickly run out of space. We recommend a high-capacity microSD card like the Samsung EVO Select 256GB to ensure you have enough space to hold all the games you want.

The Physical Advantage

The most apparent positive about buying a physical copy of a game is that you can share it with others. If your friend wants to borrow Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, no problem. If your brother wants to play Splatoon 2 in his bedroom on his Switch, he can sneak it away from the rest of the family if he's sly. You can also skip a microSD card or opt for a smaller one, as physical games only store save data. Another cool benefit: physical collector's editions with limited-run memorabilia like statues, stickers, art books, and soundtracks. You often can't get this stuff when buying digitally.

You can also sell or trade in physical games to help support your entertainment habit; something digital buyers are still dreaming of. Some rare and out-of-print games sell for a lot of dough on the resell market. With a physical game, you have the opportunity to be a collector.

Go physical if you're an old-school collector.

Selling your old games isn't the only benefit of buying physical copies. You can also buy them cheaper on the resell market. Sometimes for more than half off their full price, if a game has sold really well or isn't particularly popular (strange how that works). Plus, retail stores will frequently put games on sale, so you could potentially buy a brand new game at a discounted price (especially if you're a savvy shopper). Digital games do, also, go on sale from time to time in Nintendo's shops, but they are at the whim of Nintendo instead of your discount-finding prowess, and the deals usually aren't as good as they would be in physical format.

If you determine physical is your style, consider investing in a carrying case for your Nintendo Switch game cartridges. We like HORI's Game Case as it offers the best combination of protection, convenience, and portability. Games snap into their own little slots in the case to make sure they aren't moving around. You can hold up to 24 games, which is on the high side for game cases. Plus it's super cheap! The HORI game case lets you take a large number of cartridges on the go with a lesser chance of losing them. The only downside is that if you lose the case, all the games go with it, so don't lose the case!

For Digital

Samsung EVO Select 256GB

All the space you need

Samsung's EVO microSD cards are some of the best on the market, and this one has enough space to hold dozens of games. Better yet, it's more than half off the price it used to be!

For Physical

HORI Game Card Case

Keep your Switch games safe

Officially licensed by Nintendo, the HORI Game Holder Case can store up to 24 games, each with its own individual slot with clasping mechanisms to keep the cartridge nice, safe, and to hold it in place. It's small enough to hold in the palm of your hand, in your pocket, or your bag.

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The Mac has plenty of games, but it'll always get the short end of the stick compared to Windows. If you want to play the latest games on your Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows .. or do you?

There are a few ways you can play Windows games on your Mac without having to dedicate a partition to Boot Camp or giving away vast amounts of hard drive space to a virtual machine app like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Here are a few other options for playing Windows games on your Mac without the hassle or expense of having to install Windows.

GeForce Now

PC gaming on Mac? Yes you can, thanks to Nvidia's GeForce Now. The service allows users to play PC games from Steam or Battle.net on macOS devices. Better still, the graphic power of these games resides on Nvidia's servers. The biggest drawback: the service remains in beta, and there's been no announcement when the first full release is coming or what a monthly subscription will cost.

For now, at least, the service is free to try and enjoy. All supported GeForce NOW titles work on Macs, and yes, there are plenty of them already available!

The Wine Project

The Mac isn't the only computer whose users have wanted to run software designed for Windows. More than 20 years ago, a project was started to enable Windows software to work on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. It's called The Wine Project, and the effort continues to this day. OS X is POSIX-compliant, too (it's Unix underneath all of Apple's gleam, after all), so Wine will run on the Mac also.

Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's been around the Unix world for a very long time, and because OS X is a Unix-based operating system, it works on the Mac too.

As the name suggests, Wine isn't an emulator. The easiest way to think about it is as a compatibility layer that translates Windows Application Programming Interface (API) calls into something that the Mac can understand. So when a game says 'draw a square on the screen,' the Mac does what it's told.

You can use straight-up Wine if you're technically minded. It isn't for the faint of heart, although there are instructions online, and some kind souls have set up tutorials, which you can find using Google. Wine doesn't work with all games, so your best bet is for you to start searching for which games you'd like to play and whether anyone has instructions to get it working on the Mac using Wine.

Note: At the time of this writing, The Wine Project does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina.

CrossOver Mac

CodeWeavers took some of the sting out of Wine by making a Wine-derived app called CrossOver Mac. CrossOver Mac is Wine with specialized Mac support. Like Wine, it's a Windows compatibility layer for the Mac that enables some games to run.

CodeWeavers has modified the source code to Wine, made some improvements to configuration to make it easier, and provided support for their product, so you shouldn't be out in the cold if you have trouble getting things to run.

My experience with CrossOver — like Wine — is somewhat hit or miss. Its list of actual supported games is pretty small. Many other unsupported games do, in fact work — the CrossOver community has many notes about what to do or how to get them to work, which are referenced by the installation program. Still, if you're more comfortable with an app that's supported by a company, CrossOver may be worth a try. What's more, a free trial is available for download, so you won't be on the hook to pay anything to give it a shot.

Boxer

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If you're an old-school gamer and have a hankering to play DOS-based PC games on your Mac, you may have good luck with Boxer. Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app.

With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you'd like to play. It also wraps them into self-contained 'game boxes' to make them easy to play in the future and gives you a clean interface to find the games you have installed.

Game Cartridge List

Boxer is built using DOSBox, a DOS emulation project that gets a lot of use over at GOG.com, a commercial game download service that houses hundreds of older PC games that work with the Mac. So if you've ever downloaded a GOG.com game that works using DOSBox, you'll have a basic idea of what to expect.

Some final thoughts

In the end, programs like the ones listed above aren't the most reliable way to play Windows games on your Mac, but they do give you an option.

Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive.

How do you play your Windows games on Mac?

Let us know in the comment below!

Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.

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