Nintendo Says It Has No Plans to Ditch Physical Media Anytime Soon, Even If Sometimes All You Get Is a Keycard to Download Its Games

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Nintendo has seemingly taken its own stance on the growing controversy regarding whether or not game releases should continue to include physical media. The decision to step back from providing physical media for new releases is not new by any means and has been noticed by gamers for well over a decade, just as high-speed […]

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[Uvilla]

Keycard to download game... physical it is not... But t least you can sell it as if so, while still downloads are possible.
No stadium events for u with keycard cartriges I guess.

 

[DrezKill]

During Switch 1's generation it was already bad that a lot of 3rd-party devs decided not to pay for the full-size 32GB cartridges, and instead went with smaller-capacity cartridges, and only fit some of the game onto it. The rest of the game you have to get through a download. In some cases the game is unplayable without it. For another situation, look at Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Only the first game is on the cartridge. The other two games in the collection are downloads. Neither case means the cartridge is standalone. Good luck using those things 20 years from now. So this is already f*cked up. The Switch 2 keycards just made it way worse. Keycards don't count as real physical media to me. If that's how things are gonna be then I would rather just stick with digital downloads. I'd rather buy a retail box and get a f*cking download code than get a keycard.