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Nintendo’s crackdown on all things tangentially related to potential piracy continues, but this time the company is turning its ire on its customers, rather than those who might distribute hacks or ...

Even though game-key cards aren't popular with everyone, Alex Hutchinson thinks "Nintendo is going to get away with it" ...

The latest Switch update brought with it a couple of pretty substantial new features in the form of Virtual Game Cards and ...

The new cartridges contain access to a download instead of having the game on the physical media.

One thing that might have flown under your radar is that redownloading titles directly from the eShop is now no longer ...

During its Switch 2 Direct on April 2, Nintendo revealed that some Switch 2 cartridges would be Game-Key Cards. Rather ...

Unlike normal physical Switch titles, which come with the game data on the cartridge, these cards are used as a key to download the game from the Nintendo eShop ... dreaded ‘code-in-a-box’.

Ys X: Proud Nordics and No Sleep for Kaname Date are also game-key cards in Japan. And retail descriptions for Split Fiction list it as a code-in-a ... When Nintendo pulled back the curtain ...

Cameron Faulkner (he/him) is Polygon’s commerce editor. He’s a product expert who began writing about tech and gaming in 2013, and migrated from The Verge in 2023. Regular microSD cards, of ...