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Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview (en-americas-support.nintendo.com)
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Game-key cards are different from regular game cards, because they don’t contain the full game data. Instead, the game-key card is your "key" to downloading the full game to your system via the internet.

Pay a premium for a physical copy of your game, and the cartridge may not contain the actual game. Only on Nintendo Switch 2.

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[-] velxundussa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Until the download servers go down and you have a cartridge that's just ewaste

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, which is a big part of why, despite allowing transfers, it still sucks.

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