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Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview (en-americas-support.nintendo.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

Pay a premium for a physical copy of your game, and the cartridge may not contain the actual game. Only on Nintendo Switch 2.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (10 children)

So they essentially stuffed a download code into a physical cartridge to make people feel like they are getting something?

Isn't that needless and wasteful? Isn't it also going to trick unsuspecting people into buying something they think is a physical version of a game but isn't?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They better have a proper label / sticker there.

For collectors, and resell value compared to a paper with a code.

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