Nintendo responds to the repercussions on playing cards

Summary

The president of Nintendo of America Doug Bowser faced concerns about the abundance of developers and publishers who use the game cards.
Bowser says that adequate physical games are still “a fundamental part of our activity” and that Nintendo plans to support them for “the immediate future”.
He continues that the KE-K-KEY cards are there to support as many third-party developers as possible and help them bring “deeper and larger and more engaging content” to Switch 2.

Nintendo has probably seen a little more pushback on Nintendo Switch 2 than expected, since they managed to upset fans in different ways since we revealed the great system at the beginning of this year. Mario Kart World gave way to anger for video games prices, while the console was also considered too expensive and could worsen.

Another of the great disputes of Nintendo Switch 2 concerns the game cards, which are essentially codes on the cartridges you use to download the complete game. It is a measure for Nintendo to obtain games on Switch 2 that could have larger file dimensions than the 64 GB maximum cartridges to allow, but obviously raises concerns about the conservation of video games.

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As seen with Doom: The Dark Age, people who love to buy games physically does not like the idea of buying glorified download keys and the recent Arc System Works Hack has revealed that Nintendo offers only third parties expensive 64 GB cartridges. Instead of eating those costs, many go to the versions of digital or game cards.

Nintendo responds to the repercussions on playing cards

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It is concerned that this method could possibly see a strong decline of adequate physical games for Nintendo Switch 2, but CEO Doug Bowser has now faced the concerns about the support of the system for physical games in a recent interview with IGN.

When asked if the game cards are the future for Nintendo, Bowser says that adequate physical games are still “a fundamental part of our business” and that Nintendo plans to support them for “the immediate future”.

“In the immediate future, physical games are still a fundamental part of our business,” says Bowser. “And we appreciate our relationships in particular with our retailers and we want to make sure we have products available for them to sell to their consumers. When you look at the game cards, for us, our goal with Nintendo Switch 2-Simile to what we managed to create on Nintendo Switch-is to have the wider and most deep library that we can possible.

He continues therefore, explaining that the Ke-Key cards allow third-party developers and publishers to bring for now “deeper and larger and more immersive content” to Nintendo Switch 2. So, it seems that the physical games are still part of the future of Nintendo for now, but it will be low for the developers themselves to choose whether to make an effort to adapt to their games on a cartridge.