This notice reads “full game download via internet required”. Essentially, every Nintendo Switch 2 Game-key Card is a license instead of an actual game.

Nintendo Game-Key cards are crucial. Switch 2's 64GB cartridge may not suffice for large games. Concerns arise over the future of physical game copies.

People on the Internet have gotten mad about Game-Key cards, just like people on the Internet have gotten mad about many aspects of the Switch 2 launch ($70-to-$80 games, relatively few brand-new ...

Everyone seems to hate Switch 2's game-key cards except for the publishers who keep producing them, and the latest game on ...

I think I get what Nintendo is trying to do, and it makes retailing the games in physical stores a lot easier, but Game Key-Cards just seem like an unnecessary extra step in buying the game online ...

I don't know what I will be doing with my life in 2043, but it's comforting and extremely plausible to imagine that the "eighty dollar rental" I made of a Switch 2 Game Key Card back in 2025 will ...

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And unfortunately, game-key cards don't future-proof customers against the day when Nintendo might decide to shut down the servers for the Switch 2, as it did with other sunsetted hardware like ...

Then there’s the new Game Key Card introduced with the Switch 2. This sort of lies in the middle of the two previous options as it comes with a cartridge but it does not come with the full game ...

Good news: Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be locked to the first account or console that uses them. “ [Game-key cards] will start up on the console or system that it is slotted into, so it’s ...

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