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Almost All Physical Third-Party Nintendo Switch 2 Games in Japan Are Game-Key Cards — and It Looks Like It’s a Similar Situation in the West

It has emerged that almost all physical third-party Nintendo Switch 2 games in Japan revealed so far are Game-Key Cards, and it looks like a similar situation in the West. As reported by Gematsu, the ...
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Pray for the eShop.

UPDATE: Publisher Spike Chunsoft has contacted IGN to clarify that the physical version of No Sleep For Kaname Date – From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES for Nintendo Switch 2 is in fact a Game-Key Card title.
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Japan’s National Library Excludes Game-Key Cards From Preservation

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 ...
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Most Switch 2 Third Party Games Are Game-Key Cards In Japan – But It Can Still Get Worse

NGL, this revelation has me split. Fans who pre-ordered the Switch 2 in Japan were struck by an unhappy truth. Gematsu summed up what everyone has been talking about online: “Switch 2 game pre-orders ...