Game Key Cards are more honest than games on disc 🇸🇪

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I know that there are a lot of you who hate the phenomenon of Game Key Cards that started to be released with the Switch 2. That is, cassettes that do not contain the game, but are just keys that allow you to download it.

The consolation was that Nintendo's own games would at least be on real cartridges. And it was true... until yesterday. Because Pokémon Pokopia will be delivered on Game Key Card. With the promise broken once, we can expect it to happen several times. After all, it provides the opportunity for higher profits through insanely cheap cartridges for standard price.

I don't care much about physical games anymore because they are so often substandard without patches, and for a long time it has been common that the game you bought on disc does not work without a connection - and is thus essentially a Game Key Card.Again you download the game.

The biggest advantage of physical games is probably that you can resell them, and the second-hand market is still good. It's perfectly possible to buy a full-price title, play through it and get around half the money back by selling both. Of course, this also becomes more difficult as disc readers disappear, and here I still think it's appropriate to give Nintendo cred.

Game Key Cards are an abomination, I still agree with that - but I still prefer them and think Nintendo acts nicer than Microsoft and Sony. Switch 2 players get an honest declaration that the game they're buying is a Game Key Card - and indirectly when they're not. Thus, it is possible to choose to buy ones that are actually on the cassettes.

This opportunity is rarely given to those who play Playstation and Xbox. Their physical game is all too often a kind of Game Key Cards, but this is not noticeable. So they buy the game and really have no idea if they paid for a fully functional game for the future, or a fancy shiny thing that can at most be used to scare crows on the day the servers are closed.