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Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview (en-americas-support.nintendo.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Game-key cards are different from regular game cards, because they don’t contain the full game data. Instead, the game-key card is your "key" to downloading the full game to your system via the internet.

Pay a premium for a physical copy of your game, and the cartridge may not contain the actual game. Only on Nintendo Switch 2.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Question. Did you open OPs link? Because all you're doing is buying a license on cartridge. You have to download the game and you need to insert the cartridge to play the game. Nintendo managed to figure out a way to add all the inconveniences of physical media to digital only games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, and did you read wha ti said?... I agree with what you just said. The positive of physical card is that you can lend them. I still think it's a horrible product, and I'm afraid this will be the end of physical games.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That’s a really dumb take.

I agree with what you just said.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The dumb take is that this is a bad idea because you might damage the card. That's silly because that's just the trade off of portability.