Nintendo has shaken up how it treats your digital game purchases. It's now calling those virtual game cards, and it hopes to make it easier for you to share your games across multiple Switch systems.

Nintendo has announced a new feature coming to both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 called Virtual Game Cards that will let users to treat their digital games more like physical ones, ...

In a surprise announcement during Thursday’s Nintendo Direct, Nintendo revealed a major change to the way digital game purchases will be handled. From now on, digital Switch games will become Virtual ...

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 unveiled its Virtual Game Cards for the Nintendo Switch, a new way to share digital games coming in late April. It’s a new way to use digital games across Switch systems. With game cards, you ...

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 ...

Nintendo Game-key cards are a new innovation with the Nintendo Switch 2 and should not be mistaken for the regular game card. This is exactly the type of thing that is going to catch your granny ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. However, it was initially unclear whether the physical versions of these Nintendo Switch 2 ...

Nintendo has taken a lot of flak for the use of Game-Key Cards with Switch 2 games, which has resulted in an embarrassing rejection from the Japanese government, one that subtly condemns their use.

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I know there was a lot of complaints when this news was released, but a lot of folks seems to not even realize that this isn't even new to Switch 2. As mentioned in article, the Switch had some games ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 has the Virtual Game Card system, which lets you share your games with friends. (To be clear, the original Nintendo Switch has this too, but you may have seen a notice about it ...