Nintendo adds a new wrinkle to its game-distribution system. Here's what you get with a game-key card and how to tell what you're really buying before you check out.

With the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, folks looking to buy a physical copy of a game will be faced with one more option — the Game Key Card. This means folks who buy a “physical” copy of a ...

Nintendo confirms that Switch game-key card downloads aren’t locked to a specific Nintendo account. Nintendo confirms that Switch game-key card downloads aren’t locked to a specific Nintendo ...

Some Switch 2 games will be on Game-Key Cards, which don’t come with an actual game on it: Instead, the game-key card is your ‘key’ to downloading the full game to your system via the internet. After ...

Certain physical Nintendo Switch 2 games will be digital downloads that use a new feature called Game-Key Cards, Nintendo has revealed. Why a particular game may use a Game-Key Card instead of a ...

Nintendo’s barrage of Switch announcements over the last two weeks have also come with changes to the way Nintendo treats physical and digital copies of games. Digital games can now become “virtual ...