You can borrow and resell Nintendo’s Switch 2 game-key cards

Why the fuck would I bother inserting a physical card if I just have to download the entire game to internal storage anyway? Fucking retard.

kek

they would be cool if you could buy them "blank" and "program" them with a previous digital game purchase

This is Nintendo we're talking about, who have shut down online services before.

not reselling for $100 or more

cmon anon use your head

these won't have any value once the servers go down

The Switch 2 has literally mind broken Anon Babble

Is this REALLY what happens?? Fuck me. That means everyone everywhere is gonna run out of internal space fast no matter if you use expandable storage or not.

What the hell's on the game cards then??

Insert cartridge

Download game

Make a backup from that download

Honestly might not be bad to preserve these games, it might be interesting to see if the download is transferable to another system and your card just is a key to unlock that data. It might be a fix a for when the eShop is dead.

And you think physical media is gonna last forever? Many Gameboy games are already no longer playable because the battery died

Oh no, the battery! It's not like I can just replace it...

Not a lot of people will remember it but the Vita actually had a Windows exe that allowed you to do just that

The circuit will corrode eventually as well. Not just games, most OG Xbox consoles are no longer functional because of corrosion. Nothing lasts forever, whether it's physical or digital makes zero difference

Eh, all my shit still works fine. Not buying game card keys.

So what were you retards complaining about again?

There's a old and fat parasite currently making the country worse for everyone but him.

What happens when Nintendo inevitably shuts down the Switch 2's eshop and online in 10-15 years? Do these cartridges become unusable?

And you alternative is what? Cramming a 50GB download for the game cart? Forget about $80 games, that would be $80 to produce the cart alone

Do these cartridges become unusable?

No, they can still be used to play the game on any systems that have the games installed in them.

And almost 40 years later, you can still say not all. Homie, you can't even play Smash Bros for 3DS unless you have the update before the shop closed

Many Gameboy games are already no longer playable because the battery died

YOOOO, how young are you? There is still support for the "Gameboy" battery. some may say the support for it never ended.

they could have just called them blank game cartridges instead of key cartridges and avoided the confusion
actually maybe not blank but you get the idea

This is a step in the right direction

I don't buy Nintendo consoles for multiplats.

The fact you don't own shit, you good little cuck.

best post on Anon Babble today
you sir are winrar

If you want to "support" the Gameboy battery you have to break ToS by modifying the hardware. That is no different from downloading a pirated copy of the game 15 years later(which you shouldn't do if there are official rereleased). It is no longer the product you bought.

Cyberpunk 2077 is on a 64GB card. It's more expensive than blu-ray, sure, but it can be done.
And the fact is there are PS5 games and others that pull this same shit, when blu-ray costs are minimal.

you have to break ToS

Only bootlickers like you give a fuck about this.

Homie, you can't even play Smash Bros for 3DS unless you have the update before the shop closed

what! people are just going to ignore this?

so if I borrow and resell my friend's copy can I tell small claims court that the retard who wrote this article told me I could?

Who cares? You worried someone will catch you?

Don't both systems have to be on the same wifi network for a transfer to take place?

Anyone who bought the game can get the update still

any games not downloaded on your system at the moment of shutdown become unplayable

you can't back up your library locally

it's useless you retard

What’s preventing them from doing this entirely digital? Just make the cards contain the entire game, it doesn’t matter if it’s $20 more expensive.

If you want to "support" the Gameboy battery you have to break ToS by modifying the hardware.

The fuck are they gonna do, not repair the cartridge because it's not in warranty anymore?

support

just call it replace
but I cant expect much from someone who cares about "tos" on hardware past its warranty period

tendies about modding old conoles

y-you're a bootlicker if you give a shit about the ToS!

same tendies about modding new consoles

NOOOOOOOOO THIS IS THEFT RESPECT THE ToS RRRREEEEEEEEEEE

you tendies are seriously mentally ill

Those are likely heavily multiplayer with a lot of updates hence why a download makes more sense.

Yes, because he's a fucking moron.
en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/57847/~/wii-u-&-nintendo-3ds-eshop-discontinuation-q&a

Even after March 27, 2023, and for the foreseeable future, it will still be possible to redownload games and DLC and receive software updates on Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

One update and you'll never get the full game on cart. It's been like this for 15 years. Physical fags are the fucking worst thing about gaming.

I hope Gamefly is still running

Who are you quoting? And yes you're a bootlicker.

You've convinced me. I don't want to play the game anymore unless it comes in an officially licensed package

post nose

break ToS

you still believe this?

On July 3rd, 2024, the FTC took a stand for consumer rights by sending warning letters to eight companies regarding their warranty practices. These letters serve as a stark reminder that restricting consumers’ right to repair violates federal law. But what does this mean for the average consumer, and how does it affect the products we use every day?

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, enacted in 1975, is a federal law that governs consumer product warranties. Despite being nearly half a century old, many consumers – and even some companies – remain unaware of its provisions. One of the most significant aspects of this law is its stance on product repairs and modifications.

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That is no different from downloading a pirated copy of the game 15 years later(which you shouldn't do if there are official rereleased). It is no longer the product you bought.

This entire sentence sums up what the gaming industry has become. I ONLY buy physical media. in truth, I just bought a couple 3ds game today from a shop that resells older games.

I don't "Buy" games on steam unless I am interested and when is goes on sale for $5, as it is just a rental with an unknown return date.

By the time the cartridge ceases to function the games will have been available on all kinds of online platforms like the Virtual Console and Expansion Pak

Bravely Default HD is not a multiplayer game

Damn, I could slightly modify the product I purchased and own to give it a longer life but that would break the ToS despite the fact that it hasn't been supported by the manufacturer in years... what a moral dilemma!

Actually fucking kill yourself.

Weren't you the one just now saying you were afraid of breaching TOS? I'm confused on what is happening. Are you a troll or something?

this is actually prime time for game rentals to become a thing again

Nigger you will have most likely killed yourself or die in an accident 15 years from now, potentially sooner if the success of the switch 2 mind breaks you even further.

Or literally any rom site.

That's just one of the schizo retards who likes to scream "tendies" at everything no matter how unrelated it is.

On July 3rd, 2024, the FTC took a stand for consumer rights by sending warning letters to eight companies regarding their warranty practices.

Was Nintendo one of those companies? Strange detail to omit, wouldn't you say?

We already knew this retard.

Did you think this was a gotcha?

you might as well not play the game if you can't play the version without this speedtroob glitch patched out

Games have been getting revisions for as long as vidya has existed, zoomunculi-kun.

I honestly can't tell if 90% of people are complete retards or if they're just pretending to be.

So just like any physical media?

So I should be expected to pay for the game again?

The Wii came out 20 years ago and the download servers still work.

they already blocked new code redemptions for wii, wiiu, and 3ds. when they take down the nintendo store for switch 2 your empty carts will be useless e-waste.

They hated him because he told them the truth. If you're going to go against the corpo anyway, may as well do it in a way that benefits you most.

They're stupid people pretending to be retarded.

the CD-key. come on anon, its literally in the name "Key Card"

You mean I can "borrow" and resell YOUR nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards.

I constantly see those "YEP GAMEFLY IS NOT DEAD" YouTube ads these days.

Captcha: nykkr

service goes down

can't install physical copy you bought

Every reply is telling him to breach TOS. You're getting lost in your own ruse.

ToS

If the cartridge ceases to function and Nintendo won't repair or replace it at their own expense then there is no service to attach terms to

NOPE. I bought a used nintendo 3DS, that had a dead hard drive. I completely rebuilt the OS from an old image I have from my other 3ds and regardless of what you do, the device will register as having a "Invald ticket" that is required to use the shop. the moment you have to rebuild the OS, it removes your ability toi use the Nintendo shop. any game the requires a "Day 1 update" or needs to be patched to play is dead in the cart.

Gameboy games didn't even have a ToS you agreed to.

tos

its a warranty agreement not terms of service
a hardware piece is a produce not a service no matter how much you want it to be
it belongs 100% to the customer
the only thing being voided here is the warranty not the product itself

Key Card skips "new code redemption". its literally a physical proof of ownership. it doesn't take you to the store page and ask you to buy it, it just starts downloading the game directly from their download servers.

Probably don't haxor and then expect official support.

The only thing that matters on any old game cart is the Mask ROM or any special computational chips like in SNES SuperFX games. It holds all the game data and every other part of the cart is user-repairable and made from off-the-shelf parts.

These parts are literally pieces of silicon with physical circuitry and transistors engraved on them, sealed inside a thick slab of ceramic with gold bond wires connecting them to external metal legs.

They will outlast your great grandchildren.

All we want are games with a 120 year shelf life. That's the same length as their copyright, so I should have use/access of it until it becomes public domain.

That's why every reply told him to not give a fuck and breach it. Again, you're lost.

people giving a fuck about "physical media"

in an era where the majority of people play on Steam

its literally a physical proof of ownership

ownership of the cart yes but not the game, you are only renting it because you own the cart.

it's like being able to sell a Costco membership. you sure can do that but CostCo can just revoke the original membership. It's almost as if you can not connect the dots with what happened to Concord.

WIth Concord being pulled, Sony refunded everyone, because they purchased the rights to rent and use the game. the physical card is another hurdle that the consumer will need to jump why the publisher just removes the game from the store.

"You bought the activation! whether you can access the game or not is not involved in the purchase of the game key"

I also love how people are using the term "Key Card" too. same principle applies. You can keep the card but you lost access to the building

i simply don't believe you, and even if i did, an internet connection required for a physical cartridge is still fundamentally vomit inducing. imagine needing to call nintendo and ask permission to use that old NES cartridge you got at the garage sale.
i will not suffer electronic tyranny.

So it's just a straight upgrade from those cases with a code in them?

Cases that were previously single use cardboard download code only will now be resellable cartridges

Retards disliking a straight upgrade

Because i like collecting cartridges and what value would they have if it's just for a code?

I did not expect it, but it proves that even when repairing the 3DS and a physical cart is inserted and needs an update to run, it is not good.

Let me guess

Nothing last forever or something along those lines

All my other games work fine on that 2DS XL

I don't get it. What's the issue?

Install cfw

Download updates without nintendo shop

Damn that was hard

Tendies might be the most pathetic subhumans on the planet

yes

on switch 1 there was physical games with download codes, and those codes were one time things that were put on your account so you couldn't re-sell them

on switch 2 there will be SOME games that have key cards, where you can download the game and but if you wanna re-sell it you can do that

the most important thing here is only some games will have keycards, others will have the games on the cartridge

imagine needing to call nintendo and ask permission to use that old NES cartridge you got at the garage sale.

Yea, imagine

Picrel

Retards these days

game were made of media with no downloads needed

game moved away from this model due to "size" issue and now require downloading

game not longer come on media and you have to download

game now require a physical cart that is now required to download the whole game

calling people a retard for "disliking a straight upgrade"

so you're gonna have to put in your card to play your downloaded game? LMAO, literal humiliation ritual
fucking kek

If you're a physical purist sure, i get that, but for 99% of customers its actually better than a digital game.

Probably should have thought of that before 1337 haxing hardware that needs official servers to play a game on

Do you know where I can get the official OS for the Nintendo 3DS? serious question, I would LOVE to solve this issue.

Show me how you sell an individual digital version of a switch game

This but PC vegans.

yes, you're a retard because it IS better than what we had before, objectively. You've only gained options here. These games used to make you choose between "Digital and Digital, but you get a box" now its "Digital and Digital that you can resell".

that needs official servers to play a game on

thanks for proving the point. anything that requires a server is not owned and is on a timeline of their choosing.

Thanks for paying $70 for a game key

They've shut down online services, yes, but the wii shop/3ds&WiiU eshops are still up for people to redownload any game they purchased in the past.

A lot of Switch 1 games were just download codes in the boxes, or they had like 1/10th of the data on the cartridge and then you needed to download the rest of the game, or if you bought a collection like pic related for Switch you got one game on the cartridge and then the rest were digital codes that are region-locked so if you bought it off Amazon you were 100% fucked if they decided to toss the ol' PEGI your way.
This is nothing new, Madden hasn't had a physical release since 2020 and I think Fallout 76 kicked it off a year before that with the disc-shaped cutout bullshit. At least with this key card bullshit you can resell or give away what you bought, we just need to wait and see if third party publishers are actually beholden to this stuff or they can continue to ship plastic shells with pieces of toilet paper in them.

holy shit, I am old enough know to see the training on people to not understanding what true ownership is. motherfuck, they have done a number on you people. this is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. so cool to actually "read" someone thinking this way.

I already knew that and that was never your point.

The difference is now I need to make sure I have enough space on the system to accommodate the game that should be on the cart to begin with, and buying more storage is more cost prohibitive since Express is a much more expensive format. It's simply a get out of jail free card for cheap publishers that want to offload even more of the costs onto the customer.

old enough know to see the training on people to not understanding

old enough to get a stroke when typing too
stay safe

That's not as big a deal for first-party Nintendo titles because the one thing they're actually good at is making sure the games work at launch.

That's not a difference now. That's how it's been since digital gaming first occured over a decade ago.

You didn't address anything that i said at all, you just ranted about ownership.
Yes or No, is a digital game you can resell better than a digital game you can't resell?

How much data can the cards hold? From what I see, 1st party titles are all on the card.

An update doesn't take up the same space as the entire fucking game. Switch games run off the cartridge, you don't install things like a disc based system.

non oled handheld

non physical software handheld

You deal with this shit yet?
reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/4zhe4a/ctrtransfer_what_it_is_and_why_it_works_and_why/

And just like that, Switch 2 games dropped from $80 to $0.

Is this revenge?

reading comprehension

meant for

Nintendo probably isn't going to be using this mechanism to begin with. It's a cheapo option of 3rd party publishers so the system is more enticing and I'm not surprised at all that scumfucks like Square would be sticking 11GB 3DS games on these things.

buy physical

whops, here is 17gb day 1 update before you can play!

servers go down

download key cartridge stolen from you

WOWWWWW

Probably read the packaging before buying digital games disguised as physical games.

You lost and got gaped

What is the difference between these and the carts that already require you to download the game to play it?

If the servers go down, but you've already downloaded the game, will the card still work?

sell game card

nintendo shuts down eShop for Switch/2 to make room for the Nintendo Shift

virtual game card now worthless piece of plastic

copy of game not available to be downloaded in other places because it is end-to-end DRM'd

game preservation people are going to have fun with this

Yes. You don't need an internet connection once the game is installed.

And you will pay $150 for a butchered port or pay for a subscription like the good paypiggie you are:)

Good thing the FTC is going strong and receiving plenty of funding to contin

I disagree.

Then it's fair to say you "own" the game if you buy a game key card, certainly more than any steam game. Only difference is the game data is on the console instead of the cart, big deal.

actually being this stupid

You can sell these apparently

At least you can still play the 1.00 and there's the eventuality of a definitive edition that includes all new content. When it comes to carts there is also an advantage of storage saving too.

Why even bother with a card that's just a key to a download? It's digital either way, you're just wasting money on plastic for your shelf.

because digital you can resell is vastly superior to digital you can't.

The cope is off the charts. Nintendo is boiling you all alive.

It's only "digital" in the fact that you need to download the game. You can sell it or transfer it as a physical item otherwise.
Honestly it's surprising that it's taken so long for someone to try this. it's a good compromise

Physicalfags are plastic hoarders you're not reselling anything.

What happens when the eShop become inaccessible after Nintendo shuts it down?

I sell all my Nintendo games after a few years at almost retail price. You'd have to be an idiot not to.

I ONLY buy physical media

and pay $80 extra dollars to some scalper piece of shit, nigga fuck that I'd rather buy from the people who made it and not have to worry about losing it

I guess that's a poorfag thing because I would never bother buying a game I didn't want to keep.

How is it cope it's just a rational take on what you're getting with a game key card. Games that were previously download codes can do this instead and you can easily resell the game etc.
I guess you're concerned that it's going to become a common standard, which would be bad if you insist on having the game data on the cart. We'll have to see if that happens, but you could have just as easily have predicted that would happen with download codes but it didn't.

Can you mod, transfer, backup, etc your game or gain any real access to it? No? Then you do not own shit.

valve dies

game is drm free or easily cracked

nintendo dies

carts are worthless and digital is tied to hardware that will inevitably die

PC is the only way to 'own' your games

Nah you're just being a greedy hoarder. Share the joy of games with others at a slightly reduced price, make Nintendo pay for never lowering their own prices.

We'll have to see if that happens

This is it happening. It's not new, they're just giving a name to something that's been normal for the entirety of the previous system's lifespan.

better system than the old one and done download codes then

I just answered that, you can still go into the shop and redownload games you already bought.
How long will that service last? nobody knows, we have no historical precedent to base our guesses on.

Is all this retarded shit just to fight off piracy?

so it's greedy to want to own your games now?

Better way to phrase it. What happens to these Game Key Cards when you try to download them from the now inaccessible eShop after there is no endpoint for the key to callback to in order to retrieve the rest of the game?

this, If there's a game i don't think i'll play again i'll gift it to my cousin's kids.

they prob mean the internal battery in cartridges

I don't really know what the situation has been but if digital codes were common and this replaces it in equal amount then it's objectively better. I think some people are worried it's going to become even more common with this method

So can I download and install the game I bought then just give the key card to my friend to use to download it again? What’s to stop people from buying one keycard and installing the game on multiple devices? Or does the game only work if the keycard is inserted into the device? If so how does that work, and can you hypothetically create a hacked master keycard?

You all love physical but all my consoles do is rot in my basement while I play everything on emulator.

I can sell my copy of Witcher 3 too.

Yes. Because Nintendo doesn't want you to and Nintendo is the law.

It has external storage with micro sd so if the game data goes on there you can use it, but maybe there's other export options potentially. Whatever drm would exist should logically be easily cracked because online isn't needed once you've downloaded the game and have the key card.

No, it's to fight against download code boxes that were a plague on the switch 1. Switch 2 cartridges are also expensive for being faster reading cards so it's a way for companies to be cheap. All Nintendo games so far are inside the cartridge and that's all that matters.

Gameboy work because they use standardized AA batteries and there are Flashcars for roms.

You can do that but that downloaded game will need your cartridge to boot like you need your blu-ray disc to run the installed game.

If so how does that work, and can you hypothetically create a hacked master keycard?

We'll have to see how switch 2 handles MiG
Mig dumper can rip cartridge keys out of switch 1 games already

I don't understand this point. you just have to download it once. and who wants to play the same game in the same console for 15 years?

Did you not listen to what that other anon just said? The download servers will still be up 20 years later. You don't even need the eshop for game key card games because once inserted they'll appear on the home menu ready for download

Then do that.

The download servers will still be up 20 years later

Proof?

gibli AI slop

opìnion discarded, go back to twitter

It's not like the Switch 1 carts are like that. They all come with online updoots.

Didn't need to sell my games. Still buying physical.

Don't need the money. Can you explain how these game key cards are any different from existing games that don't have the data entirely on the cartridge?

Can you mod, transfer, backup, etc your game or gain any real access to it? No? Then you do not own shit

Agree to disagree.

Cool but I'll never ever buy a key card. Like ever.

According to reddit.com/r/NSCollectors/comments/1jsfsaw/rumor_nintendo_not_offering_as_many_options_for/ , up to 64GB but Nintendo aren't offering many smaller cards anymore.
So if your game is 11GB, you have to use the 64GB card or go digital.

Yes. Can you?

This is what you fuckers get for buying digital games and complaining about storage space on Nintendo consoles. Now that there is enough space and the games are optimized Nintendo allowed this shit to become a common practice, and ruined it for physical owners. Reminder to punch your local digital buyer.

The Wii download servers are still up. now where's your proof they won't do the same for Switch 2?

Show me a video of this process working as intended

NOOOOOOOOOO MY FUCKING NARRATIVE
HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO BAIT ON Anon Babble NOW

No, that's why I'm asking.

Isn’t that because no one use SD express and they’re probably less options for cart production?

My bad, have snoot

What if he buys the game physically and the eShop is already down? In other words, there is no "I already bought the game before the shop shut down" option like how the Wii and Wii U shops handle it. Remember, you can't go in and just decided to buy a game from the store. Do you think Gamestop would ping Nintendo to let them know you bought their game and to allow you to download their game even when their online store has shut down and you aren't able to buy any more digital games from them anymore?

falling for a literal shillpost

you're the retard

Darn. Hope you find your answers.

anon, the key card is your key. it doesn't go through the eshop so it doesn't matter if the eshop is up or not, it'll queue the download just like it would for someone who already bought it and clicked "redownload".

indie devs go out of their way to make physical versions of their 1 gb game for Switch

biggest 3rd party publishers can't be arsed to release a physical version of their popular game (Elden Ring, Street Fighter 6)

fuck them, I'm not buying any keycard bullshit no matter what game it is.

I'm so confused. I have a half dozen physical switch games that needed between twenty minutes and half and hour of downloading onto the system to be able to play them. I don't understand why this isn't the exact same thing. Is it because they gave it a new name? Is this a magical thinking thing where doing that wills a new form of existence into being?

Because the game is tied to the cartridge, not your account.

what games were they? because odds are you didn't "need" to download anything, they would've worked even if you'd had a system that wasn't connected to the internet. what you downloaded were patches or updates, which improve the game, but weren't necessary to run it.

difference between key cards and regular cards that need updates is that regular cards can still be played with their outdated version without needing an internet connection

anyone else think of doom when they hear key card?

The Witcher 3(that one took two hours), the Asscreed collections that each only had the first game of the lot, Spyro Reignited. Can't remember offhand which others .

sus

You aren’t modifying the Gameboy cartridge. You are replacing a non-functional CR2025 with a functional CR2025. Even in legalize there is a distinct difference between modifying and repairing hardware. One changes the nature of the hardware while the latter keeps it running as provided.

legalese*
I’m going to drink my coffee now.

I thought of doom when I saw that Sw2 cartridges were red

Do black people (actual Africans) buy nintendo consoles, really?

muh Satellaview

Yeah there's a reason why Satellaview is so obscure, half of them were considered lost media fifteen years ago, and most of the Satellaview were basically adaptations/ports/special editions of games anyway.

30 years later

servers close down

game cart is just plastic

it's better than the absolute shit show that is download codes

There goes the Overton window. If I didn't know any better I'd say they did codes last gen to lube you up for key cards

As if the servers are still around... You know Nintendo shut down the Wii eShop a few years ago.

You can borrow and resell Nintendo’s Switch 2 game-key cards

KEK. You can't even do that with pc game keys that have been used

I downloaded a digital game on my wii last month, purchasing is disabled downloading is still active

what is Steam Families

At least, there is a GOG version.

Can't you guys stop saying good things about it? it doesn't help my narrative

Are you still going to be playing video games 30 years later?

yes fuck you, i still play n64 games today

If people wanna be autists about physical media, let them

As long as they're not hypocrits and actually understand the importance of physical media, meaning that they also criticize and refuse to use subscription services or games with always online DRM, and advocate for stuff like the stopkillinggames act

You can share your entire library with 5 other people at the same time on steam and pc games are so much cheaper you'll save far more money
Nnitendo's new cancer will always have the servers shutting down hanging over their heads

I'm only okay with digital-only downloads if pirating is viable. I assume I'll lose access to all my steam games one day but I can just pirate them at that point.

3DS

dead hard drive

I'm assuming you mean SYSNAND? That's trivial to recover, just run CTRTransfer.

it removes your ability toi use the Nintendo shop

any game the requires a "Day 1 update" or needs to be patched to play

Who the fuck is using the 3DS eshop in current year? Just load the hshop app and download literally everything, updates included, or just do what normal people do and download everything you want off the computer and drop it into the SD card before activating them in FBI.

You're either a retard or you're stuck in 2015 and refuse to update your homebrewing methods

PS5

Damn that's like the worst version of the game too, even the shitbox version of Wilds has better performance and crossplay.

>NOOOOOOOOO THIS IS THEFT RESPECT THE ToS RRRREEEEEEEEEEE

who the fuck has ever said that? I've never heard it outside of "it'll void your warranty but if you're ok with that, go for it"

Char please, painting your Zaku red doesn't mean it isn't a Zaku anymore...

20 years ago doesn't dictate what will happen 20 years from now. Nintendo is stripping away user access and control and it's only going to keep getting worse. Boiling the frogs.

Or does the game only work if the keycard is inserted into the device?

It's this one. It's like if you put Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon in your Xbone/Series. It'll download the full game and you having the disk in the drive is what allows the game to be run at all. Without the disk it doesn't authenticate it.

If so how does that work, and can you hypothetically create a hacked master keycard?

Switch 1 cards all have unique identifiers, so no. It's how people get autobanned with the flashcart that's out.

Nintendo is stripping away user access and control

Not really. Looks like this only impacts games you could not ever own to begin with, and now it allows reselling of them, when before you couldn't.

Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify getting screwed

In 20 years

This is a GOOD THING.
Its infinitely better than a fucking one time consumable download code a piece of paper that gets permanently tied to your online nintendo account.
How is this supposed to be a bad thing again?

Looks like this only impacts games you could not ever own to begin with

No, it's being used by everyone who wants to cheap out and not buy the 32/64 GB carts. Konami is literally releasing a physical Survival Kids game that's only 3 GB in size via this system, and there's word going around Asian (Not Japanese) versions of Bravely Default come on normal carts instead of Game Key carts. All this is going to lead to is more and more companies opting for the Game Key carts because it's cheaper for their bottom line and we won't actually own our games in the long run, simply right now.

All this system does is guarantee that in the future you will be able to buy a physical copy of a game that is equivalent to a timebombed R4 so it never works when you can still buy an NES cartridge today and it still works on an NES. It's only a good system in the short term because it makes digital copies of games physical in a way, but in the long term it's terrible because you have no idea how long servers will be supported, if they won't legalese their way out of supporting servers, and piracy will become your only option rather than being able to source and play the actual copy of the game because devs decided to spend $7 instead of $8.

I already knew digital anything is getting assfucked by a corporation. This is just a step in the right direction and entirely avoidable.

I'm just glad peiole are finally waking up to how bad digital games are for the consumer.

You know what would be a good thing? The fucking game on the fucking cart.

How is this supposed to be a bad thing again?

Because it means devs will cheap out and not release as many games on proper physical carts and instead opt for the cheaper Game Key option which is worse in every way to a normal physical cart in the long run, especially if they're mandated to release these things rather than the slips.

Capcom and Squeenix already do it on the Switch 1 in non-Asian regions. FFX-2 didn't even get a cart in the west and neither did the MMLC2 but Asia got them. Hell, even Nintendo took years to release Bayonetta 1 physically in the west despite Japan having it with the collector's edition for like a year or two. Now imagine like half the games getting these physical versions with a time bomb instead of a proper physical copy because it's an option.

The entire point of physical is that you own your copy, it can be installed offline, you can lend it, you can sell it, and it can't be taken away from you even if your account is banned. The only thing you retain with these carts over the slip of paper is that you can sell or lend them to people, otherwise it's an objectively more inconvenient digital copy that requires you to have the cart in your system at all times to play it. Unless you plan on selling or lending that copy away the slip of paper is generally better in most cases for you.

For people in the long run this is the worst option that could have possibly happened because now it means games that would have had actual physical copies have these temporary abominations.

Have you guys heard of the prefix "non" followed by the word "issue"?

I want the entire game on the fucking cartridge

why?
you're not going to ever have the final binary on the game card
all games need patches of some kind

Have you heard of the word "butt" followed by "fuck"?

What will happen if Nintendo went bankrupt? Or Japan got nuked?

why?

Because you actually own the damn copy of the game.

you're not going to ever have the final binary on the game card

all games need patches of some kind

It's still playable off the cart regardless, and Does It Play outright shows that the overwhelming majority of games do not need a patch to be played at all or anything from an online server. In 60 years someone will be able to grab a Switch 1 cart and still play it on their Switch 1 their grandfather had. In 60 years someone will be able to grab a Switch 2 and have to pirate everything because a huge chunk of the library is going to be e-waste that doesn't work.

Konami is literally releasing a physical Survival Kids

WAIT WAIT hold the fuck up that was supposed to be The Survival Kids? Wtf did they do to the artsyle is the C team doing this.

Yes. サバイバルキッズ or "Survival Kids".

no one getting butt fucked here. just sell your game within 20 years after you're done with it. problem solved

uhhhh nintnedo is immortal, sweaty

Nintendo were always going to go the codes in a box route for the shitter games. This solution is better.
If we start seeing Triple A titles done like this then you have a point.

Elden Ring isn't a AAA title? Duskbloods will probably be a key code too.

If we start seeing Triple A titles done like this then you have a point.

We are seeing AAA titles done like this. Elden Ring is releasing as a Game-Key cart.

if

It's never a question of if in this industry. Call slippery slope a fallacy all you want, we've been sliding downhill for 20 years already

what difference does it make?

One becomes a paperweight when switch 2 servers get shut down and the other doesn't.

Japs don't care because they genuinely don't think they own their own games.

implying they aren't already

Well, Im going to enjoy physical games while they last.

Oh god no where will I find a screwdriver and watch battery

Why didn’t they just leave it dead? Or release the old ones?

you can't. it only has value until the game can no longer be downloaded. It's a scummy anti-consumer blockade and it is meant to deprive the market of used games and further complicate what should be a very simple system. There is no reason to create a cartridge that doesn't have any data on it. It's wasteful and stupid. Why would you want to be required to put in a cart for a digital game (and yes it's digital, you need to download it to play it at all, it's digital) this is the gayest thing they've ever done and you're a gaped ass faggot if you buy it

a shitch 2 only has 256GB of storage.
It's not viable to download games when you bought the fucking game card so you don't have to do that.
a real game card also holds the original build of a game, a key card holds nothing,, no way to protect yourself from update vandalism.

You technically could still play Spyro 1 without the download.

I'm sure those will have the security defect piratefags will exploit to inject payloads into the switch 2

If you want to "support" the Gameboy battery you have to break ToS by modifying the hardware

What kind of shit-eating boot-licker gives a fuck about that? If you don't download an update your gamei s literally worthless. If you don't change a 25cent battery your $20 game in 1999 is still a game you can play, it just doesn't save.

So buy it again for full price?
and then do it again the next generation?

How about I just emulate my games on my PC and keep my roms forever while you can fuck off and kill yourself..
how about that?

Black front and center

Nope.

That is no different from downloading a pirated copy of the game 15 years later(which you shouldn't do if there are official rereleased).

I will download your ROMs. I will put them on every device I own. I will not give Nintendo money for 40 year old games.

Square cheaped out again

Gee what a surprise. Did you also think that the Kingdom Hearts games ACTUALLY needed to be cloud versions on Switch, too?

Not really, this place is as gay and retarded as always

We already knew this.

Mate, you know by now that it’s shitposting and nothing else
These cunts knew exactly what it was and were purposely doing it for (you)‘a
It’s just console war bullshit

Why are you racist?

same shape?

Exact same? What's preventing some casual from sticking a Switch 2 cart into a Switch 1 like an idjit?

I can understand being a little hesitant with consoles because it seems like once they shut down their servers for that console then you're SoL on the games you bought. You pretty much had your copy taken away.
Sure the same could happen to Steam, but at least so far it's still standing strong. I'm pretty sure I even have a game or two that was delisted but they'll still let me download it.
And sometimes having physical media is nice for once. So I can throw it in some random corner and lose it years later, tearing up the places trying to remember where it was placed.

Easier to pirate.

That’s the dumbest shit I’ve heard
You want to take a toy with you when you go somewhere ?

Reality is that those new game cards are expensive. They are higher speed and hold way more storage, so I think the consumer price of those carts would be at least 10,- with nothing on them.
I think some just sell it with a download to lower the cost.

As far as I have seen only third parties use the key code, and those also tend to be the norme. 59,99 instead of 70,-

This is some dumb nigger with no repair skills logic.

then you know "game key cards" are a fucking scam.

Yeah. Did it really take Nintendo telling you it was a scam for you to realise you never owned any digital games? Digital anything was always a scam.

It still doesn't justify not having a game on the cartridge itself. They go up to 64gb in capacity yet bravely default is not on the cartridge? You can't possibly came up with justification for this. I won't buy game-key cards.

, but at least so far it's still standing strong

Nintendo is hundreds years old you know...

I guess PS5, Xbox and steam games are also scams

Games that have game-key cards do not have proper physical editions. There is no option to get that.

Just get the patch for the game to put it on there and it becomes a real physical edition, right?

all the files on my PC are digital. digital is way more preservable than physical.
all my roms are mine.
all my steam games are mine, steam "DRM" is so uninvasive a simple .dll change will make it run standalone.
I will own them all forever. even if steam disappears tomorrow.

that's different than paying extra for a useless piece of plastic with nothing on it that still has you downloading a file like you would have with a digital purchase.
and even worse "digital" games on switch need to be locked to your hardware. you can't simply move the files around like I can with my games.
if you want to play form your acount on another console you need to deactivate the game from the other console then activate it on the new one.
Nintendo are scammers on a whole different level.

Yeah. Switch cartriges are basically the last stand for physical media.

when Nintendo decides that the servers the key cards download from aren't worth keeping around, making the cards worthless because you can't download the game anymore

With everything requiring day 1 downloads anyway, what the fuck is the practical difference anyway?

136 years old with 50 of those years in video games.

steam games don't need a plastic "key" and you can play them on any computer whenever you want.
that's nothing like the shitch 2.

reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1gtn3xr/seems_to_be_a_lot_of_misinformation_on_ps4ps5/

By that point you're better off homebrewing your console anyway. Every goaddamn game the past few gens require day 1 downloads, so servers going down is a problem regardless.

Chances are they'll "release" them before a shut down, or I suppose they could just turn them off and risk a mega backlash.

all the files on my PC are digital. digital is way more preservable than physical.

all my roms are mine.

all my steam games are mine, steam "DRM" is so uninvasive a simple .dll change will make it run standalone.

I will own them all forever. even if steam disappears tomorrow

Yeah digital has many benefits over physical.

that's different than paying extra for a useless piece of plastic with nothing on it that still has you downloading a file like you would have with a digital purchase.

It's not useless, it has a few benefits, the main one being I own the game when I buy it physically if it has no day one patches and downloads.

and even worse "digital" games on switch need to be locked to your hardware. you can't simply move the files around like I can with my games.

if you want to play form your acount on another console you need to deactivate the game from the other console then activate it on the new one.

Don't buy digital games then.

Nintendo are scammers on a whole different level.

It's ok to believe this.

Do the "keys" that put the download of the game on the cart make it permanent? If so, then why is anyone bitching? That'd be a plus, not a minus. It would be a way of making a digital game into a physical one, or am I missing something?

Physical as a game means of game preservation is a meme. Eventually games become rare and expensive and only the wealthy or the lucky get to play them. The only REAL way games get perserved is when the ROM gets dumped on the internet.

Exact same word with steamies.

digital is way more preservable than physical.

This is false. Look into solar bit flips. TAPE is way more archival and yes, it can be HD, but it costs a lot.

eBay is gonna have a nightmare of a time trying to regulate that. Probably they'll just say buy at your own risk. Maybe there'll be a website to confirm your code being sold is authentic

Make it a keychain

Qrd?

What?
That's true too, but of no use one *those* pieces of hardware become obscelete.

wha?

Just try to connect a Windows XP PC to the Internet to preserve ROMs and make stuff, watch what happens. Same thing will happen to all the others too.
Turns out the best way to preserve games is to RE-RELEASE ALL GAME CONSOLES AND CARTS.

There's no code dumbass

Having to download the fucking game and being depending on the servers being online forever. Just give us the game on the card ffs

What difference would that make

You can store digital data on a lot of archival medium. Put it on M-disc or etch it onto copper plate. It's just zero and one.

Chances are they'll "release" them before a shut down, or I suppose they could just turn them off and risk a mega backlash.

Chances are they'll "release" DRM-free version of all steam games before a shut down, or I suppose they could just turn them off and risk a mega backlash.

The only way I can see this being of any advantage is if this is implemented on games that need late heavy patches, but then again, those carts can just get patched anyway, so this is puzzling.
Why did they do this?

It just feels weird knowing that you need the internet in order to actually play the game
Its like going through your gfs photo album and finding out that she had 6 toes on one foot before having it removed when they saved the money for the surgery

cuppa minutes too many!

To be fair in like 10 years you will be able to resell the game for more than you paid although inflation might have fucked it up.

If they have a internet-less transfer like connecting the switches together this might not matter and honestly this might be one of the last updates they will do when the Switch 2 is about to get replaced

Sorry troon, "key code"

Are your parents digital or something? Why the fuck are you so defensive over it?

Digital is way more volatile than analogue, sorry.

Are you retarded or something?

Its like going through your gfs photo album and finding out that she had 6 toes on one foot before having it removed when they saved the money for the surgery

Please tell me you've actually experienced that lol

NOOO DELETE THIS I NEED TO HATE NINTENDO AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You can’t sell your steam games either anon
I’m sorry but that’s false, it has to install to the SSD before you can play it

No. Are you?

I'm never going to play my game twice simultaneously on two switches so that's not really an issue.

you could buy a game with the convenience of digital and keep the advantages of physical like trading and lending. Well other than archiving the game which was actually a stupid expectation of non rom cartridges.

Again moron, there's no key code. The empty cart is the authenticator

most OG Xbox consoles

Only some revisions had the leaky death capacitor.
Id wager most work.

I prefer real carts, but to the people whining about game preservation, the only way game preservation happens in reality is via roms on the internet. Physical hardware always deteriorates over time and eventually ends up unusable. Emulation is the only true long term game preservation method

"I'm worried about servers shutting down 30+ years later"

Why are physicalfags like this?

Nta, the game then goes on the cart, right? If so, is that not a physical game? Not defending Nintendo's odd choices, legit asking if you know.

Can confirm, though I recapped it just in case

Mofuga, what do you think those ones and zeros get stored on? Physical media. Real preservation implies stasis and that's isn't what's happening on everyone's hard drives.

Yeah I dunno
I bet most retro games they have are downloaded roms that they play on emulators

Still buying physical

What do you think it's on when you download it anon

"I'm worried about plastic deteriorating 350 years after I'm dead"

Why are digitalfags like this?

So what, does it scan the label then?

When it's on the internet it ends up on thousands of new devices and can be put on new hardware every second.
The very last ever downloaded version of the ram put into an SD card will last longer than the very last ever true physical cart of the game

I don't think I'll ever comprehend the mindset of zoomers who treat every product as completely disposable.

There are literally dozens of games I dearly miss that I can no longer play because nobody has enough interest to make an emulator for the arcade hardware they ran on. They are essentially lost unless you have a few grand to spring for an old cabinet.

That's my point exactly and THAT hardware will wear out, or randomly fail. Preservation is tough, but propagation is easy and will get us through until we truly preserve these games.

Poor choice of wording because that's not what I meant. Point is Nintendo will let you buy digital copies of games, then shut down the servers so you can't anymore fucking you out of a game you paid them for. So far Steam is still standing and the games uploaded in it's inception and aren't removed are still available. And if you did buy a game that is removed, they still let you download it since you paid for it.
You can avoid this situation with Nintendo by a physical copy. Although if there's game breaking bugs or something else without patches you're still screwed.

Digital only games are anti-emulation, and it's possible that the console could be locked down hard enough to make rom extraction impossible with the constant phoning home.

Sure, but a data tape with the information stored in a salt mine will outlast all of that. That's what video games need, not just random anons who happen to care and have extra hard drive space.

I meant to reply to the guy you replied to

Aha.

You can put digital data on tape. It's just zero and one.

Correct. Tape is just another medium like silicon.

People will be able to extract the roms from SD cards and crack them most likely, it'll just take a lot longer
But yes this also means some digital only media may never get cracked.

No, the game goes to your SD card

AI is going to bust that wide open, I promise you.
-t. remembers when anons here said that Raiden II's encryption would take 7 million years to crack.

AI

Oh, fuck off retard.

That's lame. Thanks, tho.
Wait, then how can you re-sell them? Nintendo is leaving out the details yet again.

gets rude for no reason

Oh I'm sorry, I had no idea you were unauthorized to be here due to your retardedly young age. :(

Because the ley card signals to the switch 2 to download a locked version of the game from the e-shop, which then the key card allows to be played.
Think of how when you get a disc version of switch modern Playstation or Xbox game, it requires a complete install of the game totally on your SSD, but even with it fully installed you still need the disc in to tell the console to play it.
Key cards work the same way, just that the initial installation requires internet

So it's extra steps with no advantages whatsoever.

Anon, really?
Do you not know how a ticket works on a bus or something?
The key will download the game onto your console and you'll need it in the slot to work
You lend it to someone and they too can download it to play it while they have the cart, but as soon as the carts gone, you can't play it

It's advantageous. To Nintendo as they no longer need to pay for memory card.

The cartridge act as unique CD keys and physical DRM for your digital game. You still need to insert the cartridge in your switch 2 to play it.
So you can resell it just like how you usually resell your physical game

That's false, the physical media is the advantageous part for nintendo, devs have to pay Nintendo per cart the produce
This is a digital game that isn't bound to one console or account, that's it

No, I get all of it now, it's just lame. It's an extra step with the bonus of if they key is lost, the game can't be played. What fun.
YVO VILL STARE AT ZEE VALL
UND DU WILLST LUFF IT

No anon, it's the opposite
it's not bound to your account or console

And now the devs don't need to pay Nintendo per card produced?

So needlessly complicated. No I'm not confused, but maybe Nintendo is. Are servers free to operate in Japan now? Who is the head of Nintendo? Trump? That would make sense.

Devs pay less for smaller carts.

It's the same shit half the Sony/MS games have been doing over the past decade, but nobody knows about those because nobody uses those consoles.

That's the gist of it
A 64gb cart most likely costs them 5 bucks a card
It's not complicated at all, I swear this place is getting dumber every day

I see that, but they could just make the carts with the games on them like that, like all the other carts that came before did.

I am happy for the devs then. More money for them, right?

What if you download the game using the keycard onto a micro sd? That's a physical copy, and you get the most up to date version.

Also they shut down the shops for wii/dsi/3ds but they still let you download your purchased games straight from the console. And if they ever do shut them down completely you still have the copy you downloaded onto your switch/sd card and you can use it just fine with the keycard.

It's not complicated at all

You are dishonest. I leaned that there are at least 5 different ways to buy Switch 1 and 2 games now, and patches are not the same for every game or mean the same thing.
Nintendo has lost its mind.

Correct, but this is a way to keep some games cheaper, at least for now
It will most likely get cheaper when production of these carts ramp up

insert the cartridge

download the game from e-shop

It's that simple, shit is just digital game with 1 extra step but with all the benefit of physical game

That's a physical copy, and you get the most up to date version.

It's not physical. You still need to phone home to Nintendo to check your cartridge key every time you want to play it (they might give you a 2 week buffer period for this so kids on holiday don't throw a fit).

but this is a way to keep some games cheaper

How does it make them cheaper? Explain. The game is on a server instead of the cartridge, then downloaded onto the SD card of the console, then the cart acts as a key. How did any of that save money? Because they didn't put it on your cart? Your putting it on and not they saves money? NO way.

It really isn't complicated anon
You put card in console, it downloads and installs and you play, you give it to your friend and he does the same, as long as you have the cart you can download and play
that's literally it

No you only have to connect once for the download
en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68415/~/nintendo-switch%26nbsp%3B2-game-key-card-overview

Are you retarded?

No, more like a digital game that now won't work if they "key" is lost.
This shit is dumb.

Because they didn't have to pay Nintendo a nominal fee

Re-read, or better yet, watch RGB85 on youtube. I get so sick of typing shit here only for it to be ignored.

No dude it's super simple, there are physical games (that probably require server auth), there are physical digital games (that are just a CD key in a cart), there are digital games (that you have to download from Nintendo) and there are digital physical games (that you can transfer to other switches you own but not your friends unless you give them auth for 2 weeks of use through a convoluted menu system or use download play to give them a demo version of the game). It really couldn't be any easier, I'm sure the 5 year olds who are the target audience won't ever make any mistakes with this.

Lose game

surprised game is lost

shock

I'm not watching some youtuber that's as dumb as you
I understand it easily, you buy game, you play it
That's all you need to know

dewd it's super simple

proceeds with wall o' text

Did you not get the joke?

i-it's dumb

i-it's complicated

Hmmm I wonder who behind all this room temperature IQ replies

If I'm so dumb, then ignore me, zoomy.
I'm German, so no.

I want the entire game on the fucking cartridge

stop being anti-semetic goy!

All the digital games on my Switch can't be lost unless I lose the whole Switch. The console IS the cart.

I would unironically actually prefer this over steam codes.

Then buy it on the E-Shop, wtf are you even arguing about

Now imagine losing some "key" for all of those digital games. Nintendo is going backwards with bad ideas.

now imagine losing all my games, dammit Nintendo why did you make my games go missing

Can you not read? It's a bad idea. It makes digital games that will never have true physical releases seem like wise decisions. Now you got a digital game that has none of the advantages of being physical, while pretending to be physical.

What if you download the game using the keycard onto a micro sd? That's a physical copy, and you get the most up to date version.

I guess? Not really the point of the scenario though.

Also they shut down the shops for wii/dsi/3ds but they still let you download your purchased games straight from the console

Is that so? I don't see the point of them shutting down a service if they still let you download the games. They could still be making money if so.

And if they ever do shut them down completely you still have the copy you downloaded onto your switch/sd card and you can use it just fine with the keycard.

But what if you didn't have it downloaded at the time? SD cards are also a little more volatile in my experience. I've had a several just break, not physically mind you, without any warning. And it seems you can't make backups of them, maybe disk cloning works?, so you're still SoL.

Are there any switch games not on the eshop so you can only get them physically?

Digital games don't take up entire rooms of space. Just admit that Nintendo made a stinky.

loses his physical game copy

gets mad he can't play without it

This is the dumbest shit I've read so far

won't work offline i.e. most of the reason to get a switch to make your kid fuck off for a bit

You're being intellectually dishonest, that is, you're a gas-lighting shithead. Thanks for wasting my time.

God damn you people are retarded

all of the downsides of physical, with none of the upsides

Legitimately, I'd rather have a CD key in a box.

Nah this is a step forward for anyone dumb enough to want digital games. For everyone else you could just not care.

Have you guys not heard of Disc Check DRM where you couldn't play your own copy of Sims 2 on your hard drive without the game disc occupying your cd drive?

Then buy digital holy fuck, what are you even complaining about any more

Probably best to not waste your time with these trolls

Can you now comprehend that any random cart i your home will work given the proper console? Now imagine that you lost its "key."
The only strength digital had over physical besides ease of purchase was that it would just play without physical things happening. Now it's doing that and basically tricking consumers into thinking that it's a physical game.

Thankfully there are no downsides to physical.

with none of the upsides

That's a lie, the only updside is physical switch games have over this is that it doesn't take up drive space

Can you now comprehend that if you lose a physical game you can no longer play it?
How can you make such a retarded argument

Nah this is a step forward for anyone dumb enough to want digital games

No lol. It's a step backward for sure. Imagine this happened in 1985, then later on:

Hey guys, I got an even better idea!

What if the carts worked right out of box?

This isn't getting through, is it?

It sounds like Nintendo and partners aren’t super-retarding this but if you buy a game key card you are a super retard. Like, the fact this even needs to be addressed or stated is ridiculous but there’s always gonna be one guy who just needs to consume so hard that they have a shelf full of all the video game cases they bought

Yeah, I love having to cycle through carts instead of just having everything in one menu.

Works on my machine

now you can resell your digital

Anon Babble hate that

Jesus, I hope it just Nintendo haters as usual and not someone who actually& legitimately thought it's a bad thing

It's a digital game, dummy. It is not physical; these are digital games attempting to trick consumers into believing that they are physical. They are no more physical than any of my digital games.

nb4 yew can play dem on udder Swatches

Yeah, with a key, but normal digital downloads that don't pretend to be carts ALWAYS WORK.

Good Lord in Heaven, you are all retards.

So now you're just shitposting

What if the carts worked right out of box?

Still exists.

I guess? Not really the point of the scenario though.

You said you can avoid losing your game from server shutdown by having a physical copy of the game, presumably an official cart. So Im mentioning you can make your own backups with an sd card, as many as you want.

So it seems like the only real contention is whether you trust them to keep the servers online as long as you expect steam to, so at any time you can redownload even far in the future. That would be extra convenient I guess but it's not too bad to keep your own copies which you can store online if you want, and when they warn about taking the servers down you can make them then.
Also keep in mind a physical cart is always going to be outdated as well, so this would all be necessary regardless of keycards.

ok, not all of your are retards, but don't tell me that this scheme from Nintendo is anything but anti-consumer and anti-preservation.

saying all that

calling other people retards

LMAO

Or else you'll have a PC vegan meltie?

why are you complaining about $80 are you poor

why are you complaining about digital carts you can resell them

Why are you reselling them, Richie Rich?

Way to admit that you don't understand any of the fundamentals of the topic.
Anon Babble is that way

The order of value goes:
True digital (no server auth required)
Physical (Specific servers required for updates)
Fake digital (specific servers required for play and updates, but you can have a dozen games on your system at once)
Fake physical digital (specific servers required for play and updates, and you need to put the cart in)

I understand it perfectly
You want to bitch so you have bitch opinions
Game works when you put cart in and install it

Ah so you want a safespace away from me. Unfortunately I like harassing trolls like yourself so I'll stay.

digital game

always works

Nintendo gets GREATU IDEA-U

digital game that pretends to be physical

won't work if the key is lost

.
Nin-toddlers think this is a step forward.
[meh our system thinks you are spam]
gay board, shall I add porn like so many others, then is it a valid post?

this can be reversed with an update tho.

You are a Nintendo employee. Fuck you btw.
lol nice projection.

True digital (no server auth required)

lie, it authenticates when you download it

Physical (Specific servers required for updates)

lie, game works as is

Fake digital (specific servers required for play and updates, but you can have a dozen games on your system at once)

I don't know what you're even talking about here

Fake physical digital (specific servers required for play and updates, and you need to put the cart in)

Works the same as digital but isn't bound to your account or console

Sure.

You really do have bitch opinions, you have to admit

This thread

I can't tell if anti-nintendo fags are trolling or they're this retarded

borrow game key for free from friends

sell it to other people for profits

original owner wants it back

14 days later it magically appears back in his name

"but anon that wont work, who ever has the card itself has the master ownership licence"

yes, but I damaged the part of the chip that verifies that, of course, the original owner didnt notice because the game was already linked to them.

kek and lmao.

talks like a teen scholar

thinks anything they say wrecks my evening

lie, it authenticates when you download it

No, it doesn't. I'm talking about true digital here, not the fake "digital" that is sold to you by companies like Nintendo and Valve. DRM games are not true digital.

game works as is

You still need server access for bug fixes. This isn't an issue with true digital.

Works the same as digital but isn't bound to your account or console

Virtual game cart shit is the same as this fake physical cart on the Switch 2, you can transfer your DRM key to other people. It's just worse in every way.

yes you stupid fucking triple dip retard, you can still do that with physical versions of games
This is a third option, that has advantages of both digital and physical games.
Why is Anon Babble this astoundingly retarded?

The Nintendo shills are the retards. Next they'll make you shout you love McDonald's for your cart to play on the Switch 3, the real reason for the mic.

buy game key

copy it down to some piece of paper

resell game key later

??????????????????

So who's gonna stop me from just reentering that game key that I sold?

This but snoys and PC vegans.

implying real carts won't be phased out for this