If you’re fed up with the inclusion of Game-Key Cards for the majority of third party titles on the Nintendo Switch 2 then now is your chance to speak up. The Kyoto-based company has issued a new survey asking about both physical and digital media across its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 platforms. You can fill in the survey and provide your thought here.
Nintendo issues survey about physical and digital media on Nintendo Switch 2
It’s not rocket science. If you are not bothered about physical games then you’ll just stick to digital so you can save yourself 10 seconds ish putting in a different cartridge.
But if on the other hand you prefer physical games like myself then you want the game on the cartridge, the key cards are such a joke, the only benefit is I suppose you can still sell the keycard ( while the servers are running mind).
It doesn’t make much sense other than trying to phase out physical production and save cost on manufacturing. If that’s the case, I don’t see retail stores like GameStop existing without them. Maybe GameStop could instead function as only a merch toy shop, but I don’t really see it fitting with their model. All that will be left is retro physical while modern items cease to exist and only available on digital shops.
I thought you can both play with the key card so you would save money when I log in to my switch lite I see all my games I guess now I will buy both
Done!
No more game key cards!!!
I just let Nintendo know how Game-key cards are a great idea for 3rd party to save some money, while keeping the physical advantages. The psychorigidity of physical media purists shouldn’t be rewarded.
I just did the same, multiple times in fact!
I can’t wait to watch the purists seethe when nothing changes. 🤭
Why does it bother you that people love physical game copies?
It doesn’t matter whether you love them or not; they’re dying.
PC is all digital, PS and XBOX are practically all digital, Nintendo are the only holdouts at this point, and the game key cards are an indication that physical Nintendo games are on their way out.
Run from the facts all you want, it won’t change them. 🤭
Your facts are not factual!
So the same people who wanted lower game prices are now willing to pay more for physical copies? You can’t make this stuff up.
Physical luddites should pay a premium, they’re the ones keeping costs up! We digital only owners pay less 90% of the time (obviously we’re not talking about launch day titles). Flash sales occur every week across all digital platforms regularly making games cheaper than any retailer can offer a physical copy AND it doesn’t have to be some Cheetos encrusted used copy from a sloppy teenager with semen fingers. Then again if you claim to be a gamer and buy used copies, you’re not a gamer just a casual. Trading in games is not something a physical only owner who claims “it’s for collector reasons” would do, so these luddites often contradict themselves.
They charge what they can, getting rid of physical media isn’t going to change prices. You’re fooling yourself if you think a company would willingly pass on the opportunity for profit.
Robyn, your definition of a gamer seems to be based entirely on how a person buys their games, not whether they actually play them.
Outstanding logic there, champ.
It didn’t ask the single most important question (key cars and physical copies are irrelevant):
Why they removed traditional gamesharing. On everything before S2 I could buy one digital copy and share it with a secondary console and we could both play TOGETHER. With S2, it can only be loaded on one console at a time, completely erasing the functionality gamesharing was created for!
rather that’s irrelevent to the key card and physical copy discussion
Soooo, what’s so wrong with saying that we prefer truly physical games? Getting rid of key cards doesn’t mean that games won’t be available digitally. Incredible loser energy in the comments.
Physical luddites should pay a premium, they’re the ones keeping costs up! We digital only owners pay less 90% of the time (obviously we’re not talking about launch day titles). Flash sales occur every week across all digital platforms regularly making games cheaper than any retailer can offer a physical copy AND it doesn’t have to be some Cheetos encrusted used copy from a sloppy teenager with semen fingers. Then again if you claim to be a gamer and buy used copies, you’re not a gamer just a casual. Trading in games is not something a physical only owner who claims “it’s for collector reasons” would do, so these luddites often contradict themselves.
Might as well do the form thing.
Looks like the form is down now.
Also interesting to me that so many digital-only purchasers are actively concerned that physical collectors are able to buy full games physically. It’s a strange phenomenon.
That would be like physical collectors wanting digital-only copies to have to be tied to a key card as DRM. Why force your preferences on a part of the market that doesn’t concern you as a consumer?
I think key cards are a really good idea. You get cheaper games because of the cheaper cards, you can still buy second hand and sell them.
What an absolute nothing article. Blocking this website from appearing Google searches.
Key Cards are great. Until your proprietary brand new Memory card, that’s only 500ish Gigs gets full. And it’ll look like you gotta wait months or years for the larger ones to be manufactured.
Hope you all have plenty of Memory room left, no matter which side you feel on this argument.