Nintendo’s “game-key cards” may end up being physical gaming media’s last gasp—even though they don’t have a game on them at ...

US preorders for the Nintendo Switch 2 console went live at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart at midnight Eastern time last night (though the rush of orders caused problems and delays across all three ...

As pre-orders for the Switch 2 went live earlier this week, we started to learn more about many of the launch and post-launch games that will be available for Nintendo’s next big console.

Many have noted the similarity to online passes that were common in the early ... and act as a physical license key to let you download a game to the internal storage. This honestly isn’t ...

Lost in Cult is launching a new label to release premium physical games, beginning with three British games: Immortality, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and Thank Goodness You're Here.

Over the last eight years, it’s become common to see Switch owners with huge collections of physical games. These fans don’t want Game-Key Cards, and it’s easy to understand why. Hopefully ...

The vast majority are either the derided game-key cards—physical cards with a built-in download link—or are fully digital releases. The latest leaks suggest Nintendo has drastically limited ...

It seems Switch 2's divisive Game-Key Cards - physical releases containing a download "key", rather than the full game data - will be a pretty common sight when the console launches this June.

Physical game sales in 2024 were less than half what they were as recently as 2021, and the market has been in decline since 2008, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella tells The Verge. “There has been ...

To be fair, this hasn’t been as common on Switch as it has been on competing consoles, but nevertheless, for the people still committed to purchasing physical games, it riles. This is ...