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As pre -orders for the Switch 2 at the beginning of this week, we learn more about many of the Start and post-start games This will be available for the next big console from Nintendo. And it turns out that many physical switches are 2 games “Game Key Card ”cart What the game in the cartridge does not actually contain require an internet connection to download and play. This fact has annoyed many who believe that it will be more difficult to preserve and play games in the coming years.
At the beginning of this month afterwards Nintendo officially unveiled the Switch 2 We learned a lot more about a large direct presentation dedicated to the console. And one of the most controversial information we have discovered is that some physical games on Switch 2 are not physical games. Instead, the players receive one essentially emptiness Play key wagon that acts as DRM. As soon as you put this car in the Switch 2, you can download and play the game. And if you want to play it later, you have to put the car back in. Lose this car and you are screwed. But you can play the game offline as long as the car is inserted.
Some players say that this is better than the way some Switch 2 Games are sent in a box with just one digital code, and I think that's true. This Game key cards Can be acted to other players or used again and again. However, others indicate that it is just a digital game that now has to sell and use more plastic waste. And what happens when the servers are closed one day? Will this 20-year copy of a game you love will still be playable? Nintendo is probably not considered that the Big Three has the worst success record for maintaining digital storage. Try to buy a digital game Wii U or 3DS.
Of course, people dug in store listings to try nailing the games of the games and do not use playing cards. Here is Kotaku's List so far. You will find that all of Nintendo's first part like this new Donkey Kong Play, send in a physical car.
In the meantime, many publishers from third -party providers use game key cards. There are also a few games whose status does not currently know. We will update this list when further games are announced and we will learn more before the start of the Switch 2 of June 5.
Switch 2 games confirmed “game key”
- Raidou: Remastered
- Yakuza 0 director Cut Cut
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
- Street Fighter 6 year 1-2 Fighters Edition
- Hitman world of the attack
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion (Only in Japan)
Switch 2 Games has been confirmed that they are completely in the car
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Runenfabrik: Guardian of Azuma
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion (Only in the USA)
- History of the seasons Grand Bazaar
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Kirby and the forgotten country
- Zelda breath of the wilderness
- Zelda tears of the kingdom
- Super Mario Party Jamboree
- Mario Kart World
Currently unknown
- No sleep for Kaname Date – from AI: The Somnium files AIBA Edition
- Split fiction
- Star Wars prohibited
