As part of its Nintendo Switch 2 announcement earlier this month, Nintendo revealed that game developers could sell their games as a Game-Key card. These cards look similar to the physical Switch 2 ...

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TL;DR: Nintendo Switch 2's Game-key Cards, praised by Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi, offer a cost-effective, faster-loading alternative to traditional cartridges by providing ...

Nintendo has dispelled concerns about first-party titles appearing on Game-Key Cards, clarifying that its internally developed games will avoid the new physical format. Furthermore, multiple ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is approaching, and for at least some of its launch catalog, companies are opting for Game-Key Cards rather than fully on-cart physical games. This has understandably not been ...

The whole game will be included on a cartridge. April was a huge month for Nintendo. It was the month that they opted to roll out the red carpet for their Nintendo Switch 2 in the form of a Nintendo ...

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 ...

One of the new features introduced with the arrival of Nintendo Switch 2, the new console from Nintendo, is the concept of Game-Key cards. These are “cartridges” that don’t actually include the game ...

"Gee, I sure wish there was a game distribution method that had all the drawbacks of physical but also had all the downsides of digital" said no one ever. Click to ...

Nintendo has begun sending out surveys to players in Japan related to Game-Key Cards on the Switch 2, with the company wanting to learn more about consumers' opinions on the controversial physical ...

I grasp that there are some nuances to this whole Game-Key thing, and they may hold some value for other people, but it just feels like they're selling me a USB dongle to play my digital download. And ...