There’s a pretty loud elephant in the room when it comes to the Switch 2’s software: its strange, anti-consumer approach to selling games in brick and mortar stores. However, it seems that Nintendo wants to better understand how customers are getting on with its controversial new approach to physical games, as evidenced by a survey sent to its loyal customers.
While the majority of Switch 2 games can be purchased physically in stores, the old-fashioned way, not all of those physical games are created equal. Some developers, like CD Projekt Red went out of their way to put the entirety of their game on a physical game cart. But others have opted to ship games on “Game-Key Cards.” Despite being purchased in a physical box with a cartridge inside, games shipped with so-called Game-Key Cards must be downloaded as a digital copy and can only be played when the cartridge is inserted into the system. These carts contain little to no actual game data. It’s essentially an elaborate and inconvenient approach to DRM.
