Nintendo adds a new wrinkle to its game-distribution system. Here's what you get with a game-key card and how to tell what ...

When Nintendo Switch 2 launches in June, many of the first games that are released for the system will be on Game-Key Cards. These cartridges simply act as a “key” to download the game from the eShop, ...

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’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 ...

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.

Japan's National Diet Library has said that Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards will not be eligible for preservation by the library. As exciting as the Nintendo Switch 2 is, the third party game ...

Nintendo has put out a survey asking Switch and Switch 2 owners their thoughts on buying digital and physical versions of games, opening up the floor for the many, many people who hate the ...

Some Switch 2 games will be on Game-Key Cards, which don’t come with an actual game on it: Instead, the game-key card is your ‘key’ to downloading the full game to your system via the internet. After ...