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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
(blog.playstation.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Unfortunately Nintendo's been on the trend of basically being digital too with those shitty keycards that will cease to work if you didn't download the game before they eventually cut their servers (or if you try to play it for the first time in a place without wifi)
Nevermind the whole "We can brick your device whenever we feel like it". I'm genuinely upset because Nintendo has so many IPs that I love and literally can't play anywhere else. Especially the fact that they actually made interesting and unique hardware like the DS and Wii, which can be a pain to emulate rather than just having a jailbroken console. Plus there's way more steps invloved with Switch emulation compared to old consoles.
I've got a huge game backlog, but I was really looking forward to this year and the next after that Switch 2 direct :(
The way you worded that makes me think that you think Nintendo's own games aren't on the cartridge for Switch 2. They are. All physical Nintendo-published games must by policy be contained on the cartridge, not be a game-key card. The only exception (so far) is Pokemon Pokopia due to Game Freak not being wholly owned by Nintendo and thus not being required to follow the same policy.
Otherwise, 99.9% of third-party games are sadly game-key cards only.
Nope, I do know that they still make real, non-keycard, cartridge games, althought I didn't know they have a policy to make all Nintendo-published games available physically. That's reassuring for now.
But like you said, that doesn't solve the issue of most 3rd party games being keycard...