After disclosing Nintendo’s new game-key card during this Nintendo switch 2 event Last week, we are finally getting more information about why they are present and how they can be used. Although he does not have a physical copy of a game, Nintendo’s Tetsuya Sasaki Explained Gamespot Those game-key cards are not permanently tied to a specific nintendo account. The games can be inserted and played on any switch 2 console, allowing them to borrow, rented, and even resold.
Sasaki said, “Therefore the key cards will start on the console or system that it has been slot, so it is not bound by any account or anything.”
This behavior is different from the switch game that Nintendo currently sells in retail places, which has a download code instead of a physical cartridge. Those codes can only be used at one time and are connected to a specific nintendo account to prevent them from resuming a later date.
Game-key cards automatically trigger a game download when the switch 2 is inserted into the console. Once the game downloads and install, an internet connection “… is only necessary when you launch the game for the first time,” According to a support page on Nintendo’s websiteAfter this, check the initial launch that the game can be played without an internet connection, until the game-key cartridge is still inserted into the console.
The game-key card is an unusual format that merges with digital game and merge physical cartridges either without solving the format’s downside. Internet access is still required to download the game, and you still need a cartridge to play them. But as a nintendo of the President of America Doug Boussar explained RuckusGame-key cards mainly benefit publishers, allowing them to sell physical copies of the game at retail places Regular switch 2 game cartridge more than 64GB capacity,