The line between a bad video game showcase and a great one can be exceedingly slim. Often it only takes one or two surprise ...

When you insert them into a Switch 2, they allow you to download the game content from Nintendo's online store, but unlike a pure digital release, you'll still need to have the Game-Key card ...

Everyone seems to hate Switch 2's game-key cards except for the publishers who keep producing them, and the latest game on ...

People on the Internet have gotten mad about Game-Key cards, just like people on the Internet have gotten mad about many aspects of the Switch 2 launch ($70-to-$80 games, relatively few brand-new ...

There are also indications that another key factor that has influenced the low sales of these third-party games is Nintendo Switch 2’s backward compatibility with titles from the previous console.

Game-Key Cards, unless they can be sold or given to others, aren't entirely different from how Nintendo treats certain original Switch games that can be bought physically in a store but are in ...

Games As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that" News ...

With Switch, Nintendo is currently offering the platform friendliest to physical game collectors, but the existence of game-key cards for Switch 2 has the holdouts from the supposedly inevitable ...

And one of the most controversial pieces of info we discovered is that some physical games on Switch 2 won’t actually be physical games. Instead, players will get an essentially blank Game Key ...

Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. One of the stranger details that came out of last week’s big Nintendo Switch 2 event was the existence of game-key cards.