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As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that" (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

So from my understanding you can buy a key card play it in your switch two then turn around and hand it to me and it will just work as long as the Nintendo servers are active.

Also it does make it cheaper since you only have to store a small amount of memory for the cert a few mb at most and they can make a whole bunch of them as they are all the same. With non game cards you only have to deal with 32 GB cards or a 64 GB for bigger games so ether the game doesn't fit or you have to use two cards.

With game key cards size doesn't mater you could go up to 150gb and the user can just download it as long as the store stays online. It also stops game ripping with the migswitch. As the data is no longer on the card.

Please know I hate this as much as the next guy. I'm just saying nintendo doesn't care as this has been their brass ring they been gunning for for decades.