Some Switch 2 games will be on Game-Key Cards, which don’t come with an actual game on it: Instead, the game-key card is your ‘key’ to downloading the full game to your system via the internet. After ...

Nintendo Switch 2's first-party games will not use the Game Key-Card feature, ensuring full game data on physical cartridges. Third party games have the option to use Game Key-Cards. Game Key-Cards ...

US preorders for the Nintendo Switch 2 console went live at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart at midnight Eastern time last night (though the rush of orders caused problems and delays across all three ...

Certain physical Nintendo Switch 2 games will be digital downloads that use a new feature called Game-Key Cards, Nintendo has revealed. Why a particular game may use a Game-Key Card instead of a ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

TL;DR: Nintendo confirms that Switch 2's Game-key Cards will not be account-bound, allowing them to be shared or resold. Switch 2's Game-key Cards will not be account bound upon use, Nintendo confirms ...

This one detail will make the difference if gamers will celebrate or condemn Game-Key Cards. There’s still a lot of confusion about the Switch 2, as Nintendo seems to have difficulty catching up to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for a little over a month, and it’s already selling well.

With the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, folks looking to buy a physical copy of a game will be faced with one more option — the Game Key Card. This means folks who buy a “physical” copy of a ...

Many third-party studios are offering their titles as Game Key Cards on the new Switch 2 console, and according to Capcom, it considers this format to be a digital sale. During a Q&A session following ...

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Japan’s historic National Diet Library (NDL) has deemed Nintendo’s controversial new game-key cards ineligible for preservation. According to Japanese video game magazine Famitsu (via Automaton), ...