Certain Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Games Are "Game-Key Cards" For Downloads

Some retail boxed game cards will only contain a digital download code.

Nintendo Confirms Some Switch 2 Game Cards Will Only Include a Download Key

Nintendo has confirmed that those sleek new Switch 2 game cards won’t always carry an actual game and will, instead, sometimes simply contain a key for a game download.The Super Mario Bros. company detailed how it will update its approach to physical game cartridges in a customer support post published shortly after this morning’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. It explains that, when the Switch 2 arrives this June, you’ll be able to carry on purchasi…

Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are the worst of all worlds

Remember when you last bought a book, took it home, and found it was only a cover, with a slip of paper inside detailing where to download the missing pages? Or when you bought a CD, played it, and merely heard a brief recording explaining how to grab the tracks online? Of course you don’t. Because both those examples are akin to lunacy. Yet this is the kind of rubbish gamers increasingly have to put up with, due to physical media that sort of i…

Elden Ring's Switch 2 Physical Version Seemingly Tarnished By 'Game-Key Card' Release

It's not looking good for collectors - Nintendo this week announced "Game-key cards" for the Switch 2, which are described as "different" from regular game c...

The announcement by Nintendo of a new virtual game card feature for the Switch and (probably) the Switch 2 has not aroused much interest, but it solves a problem that I have encountered since the launch of the first Switch. In a video announcement, the company explains precisely the operation of this feature, which, on paper, [...] The article The Nintendo Switch 2 virtual game cards change the deal (later a bit)! appeared first on BlogNT: the B…

Between physical and digital games, there's a third option for the Nintendo Switch 2: Game Key Cards. What exactly are these?