Capcom has informed investors that it plans to count the controversial Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards as digital sales, rather than physical sales. Game-Key Cards are seen as physical games with a blank data-less cartridge and a digital key on the cart which needs to be redeemed to be played. It is not clear whether other third party developers will also count Game-Key Cards as digital sales going forward.
Capcom counting Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards as digital sales
Listen to me capcom, I want res 2 and 4 remakes for switch 2 on the cart. Thanks
Welcome to the digital age, caveman.
Yes, the age where all we do is rent the license for games instead of actually own them. A racing game was taken away without refund after only 4 months already for PC. Oh and Nintendo being allowed to brick your console if they even suspect you of modifying the console, can’t wait for the bugs to hit the innocents. What a great concept. It’s not progress if the past was better.
Isn’t the game key card itself a key to access this game? This article makes it sound like there is an empty card and then a paper in the box with a code on it. In which case, wtf is the point of the physical card lmao
I’ve edited the post to try and make it more clear 😊
The card is empty, but it’s a key to download the game.
The only good thing still about it is you could still sell the game and the new owner can then download the game still unlike digital only you can’t resell. Its a cost cutting corner for devs, but its not like they reduce the price anyway and theres always the possibility that when servers for such game go down in years to come unless you’ve download the game still your stuck with a pointless key card
There is very few instances where I think a key card like this is just bogus! Nintendo already has other capacity cards from the Switch 1. Those could be used to run the Switch 2 games from in lower capacity sizes. Those are still being manufactured, and are completely compatible between both systems console family (as I’m sure we’ll get a new switch 2 iteration this gen) . Nintendo is forcing the use of them, and it doesn’t have to be so because it only comes down to the lines of code that make the demands on which machine it will run….
I can understand the key cards for net dependant [MMO, MMORPG ] and regularly updated games…. such as Borderlands 4, or Diablo 5 (if they ever bring it over) or just about any sports or fighting game due to net rollback code and net based matches with standings and such.
It’s more of “You’ll own nothing and be happy” mantra big corporate wants us to fall aline to. The only benefit is you can now sell your digital game…. that you have to go through all the motions of putting the card in and swapping it out for another key card….. because chances are…. most of your Switch 2 games won’t have the game on the card….
Whats the sense if you have to have the card in your system to play an installed game from the SSD or MicroSD? Harkens back to the days of slow read speeds from CDrom drives of old PC…. yes the hard drive was way faster than a single speed disk drive…. we don’t have the need for that rationale these days…. the hardware isn’t the problem any more, it’s the devs! <- Flat out
If the card is a key, then it’s not empty, it just doesn’t have the game files on it
As far my understanding goes, this Game Key Cards will direct you to the download page and needs to be present all the time if you want to play the game, if you install the game and the card isn’t present in the switch, the game won’t run.
Key with expire date
This will definitely be a bad thing.
I’m not opposed to key carts, I’m all for digital and physical. Especially this, this would prove that physical is needed as much as digital IF it was counted as physical, or a whole new column all together.
Lumping it with digital, would only push the narrative that digital is killing physical. But the only reason why I personally would go keycard instead of digital is to trade in the cart.
Once sold a physical cart is sold, it’s stopped getting counted. But this key card will forever keep getting counted because of the amount of downloads it’ll get. A single cart could be resold 10 times, and that’s 10 different ID’s and 10 different downloads.
Simplistic analysis: it will be like physical [games], 1 purchase = 1 count regardless if it has been resold 10 or 100 times, all digital games have different identification keys (which serve as licenses precisely…) for the publishers which helps them know how many have been sold.Similarly, once the key is sold, you will certainly not be able to use the game even if it has already been downloaded, it’s the same system as with Sony and Microsoft regarding the installation of a game on a hard drive via physical disc, you need the disc to start the game, well, it will definitely be the same.
I check out the game card and there is no expiration date.
Simplistic analysis: it will be like physical games, 1 purchase = 1 count regardless if it has been resold 10 or 100 times, all digital games have different identification keys (which serve as licenses precisely…) for the publishers which helps them know how many have been sold.Similarly, once the key is sold, you will certainly not be able to use the game even if it has already been downloaded, it’s the same system as with Sony and Microsoft regarding the installation of a game on a hard drive via physical disc, you need the disc to start the game, well, it will definitely be the same..
No thanks, I’d love to give Capcom and Sega my money but I want full physical on the cartridge Media
Hadn’t thought of the resale value of these cards. That’s a plus. My problem is it’s a bit diseptive. Those gift card things they sell are fine and there is no confusion there, you know exactly what your getting with the download on the gift card at a store. These new things, I feel could easily be mistaken for a regular physical game card.
But it is a fake physical edition, that means digital edition
I will say this, it’s better than a code in a box or just a code that you can’t resell. Still they suck nonetheless.
No. Kidding.
Steam purchase it is.
You’re a traitor and a sellout.
Game-Key Cards isn’t the only media that’s controversial. Look at Game-Key Discs on PS5 and XBox Series X. If you look at the small print in DOOM: The Dark Ages, it reads “Internet Required”.
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