Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview https://buff.ly/8HNwuJQ
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.
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.
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+ There's a feeling of owning the product, to physically touch it, that you can't get from a numeric version. It's like having a CD or vinyl from your favourite band, it feels good.
You'll be able to pay $40/mo to subscribe to NSO+++ to get access to a dozen of the popular ones.
We'll own _nothing_ and have to like it.
Especially because I'm not a console gamer, what am I supposed to do there
The power of corporate branding.
So no change to what already exists.
Kinda like supporters of certain politicians.
C'mon people recognize when you're being fucked over, even if by someone you liked.
People need to stop stanning corporations. Period.
Poor form, to say the least.
This is just clearer labeling and marketing for something they’ve been doing for years. Check any other boxart released today. None of it has any of this labeling.
Steam deck is totally awesome and 100% digital. But oh no my discs! Gotta have my pieces of plastic in case the internet ceases to exist.
I just like knowing I can replay these games even after the servers get shut down, but I can't say the same for a NIB card-key game 20 years from now.
Literally go READ the ToS of a SNES game 🙄
Not all games will be on Game Key Cards; most likely, some third-party games will use these Game Key Cards.
In the direct, they said that standard cards will have a faster read speed, suggesting that many Switch 2 games will remain inside the cards.
China and developing nations it is because it is cost effective when selling games for less to compete with piracy.
If you want the physical game, get the physical game
Justifying charging publishers ridiculous prices for physical carts again, but nudging them toward cheaper game-key carts to trick consumers and push for an all digital future.
They literally built that future directly into the Switch 2's design now.
Some of us dont think we care about this stuff but actually do (me)
and then get caught up in either miss-info or half-info.
It’s like they WANT to encourage pirating.
And prices are finally getting back what I paid for Zelda Ocarina of Time nearly 30 years ago.
Truly a return to halcyon times! 🙄
If you're going to "update the physical game" post launch, you're not playing what's on the cart.
Thus it being "physical" is a delusion.
If you're *not* going to update, then you're returning to the old days. Have fun, I guess.
Looks like I could replace it for ~$100
but that's also very different from not even having the full 1.0 game on the card.
So the Switch 2's no different from just an all-digital console, and it's also no different than the PS4 with its games not being on the discs.
Well, I still retain what I said, but now that statement applies more to the lazybums who couldn’t optimize their title to fit within the Switch 2 Game Card.
Too many questions though around resale potential and what happens when they close the eshop.
It’s the AAA “games of over 1TB” devs who I shame here.
In our world, they'll probably jack the price up and still make it download-only.
The physical keycard is required.
there’s constant telemetry occurring when you’re doing *anything* on a switch, online or offline.
it’s a large part of why you have to be so careful when modding one, airgapping its internet access in its modded state and all… one wrong move and you’re console banned immediately
Also, NoCDs have existed for physical PC games for as long as they've had DRM.