Last month, Nintendo and its third-party partners revealed that many of the “physical” games on the Switch 2 would be made available only as “Digital Key Cards.” Unlike traditional physical Switch ...

The Nintendo Switch 2will be offering a new way to acquire and own some physical games with a unique item called a "Game-Key Card." This will function quite differently from standard physical or ...

Players are gearing up for the arrival of the Switch 2 this summer, and we've been piecing together details about how game ownership and sharing will work. The picture is coming together, and in true ...

TL;DR: Nintendo confirms that Switch 2's Game-key Cards will not be account-bound, allowing them to be shared or resold. Switch 2's Game-key Cards will not be account bound upon use, Nintendo confirms ...

Nintendo has taken a lot of flak for the use of Game-Key Cards with Switch 2 games, which has resulted in an embarrassing rejection from the Japanese government, one that subtly condemns their use.

The saga of the Switch 2’s Game-Key Cards has taken another plot twist. Game-Key Cards are a strange hybrid digital physical category for Switch 2 games. The card does not contain any game code in ...

Nintendo’s barrage of Switch announcements over the last two weeks have also come with changes to the way Nintendo treats physical and digital copies of games. Digital games can now become “virtual ...