In most large markets, at the end of the order for Switch 2, most of the focus this week has been focused on the launch supply and demand questions-the basis is that the demand is high despite the widespread rotation of the price, while the supply is clearly very limited to a long time.
In the United States, where prices have been limited to the prices of apparently due to fear of colliding with prices (minimum, minimum), the larger retailers sold within minutes to allocate their pre -order, yet there is a widespread technical problems. In Japan, more than two million people allegedly entered the pre -order lottery for the system. Empty shelf and pricing scalepers are known to be closely definitive at this location-preparation for the unwanted sense of Dodge Woo Thrillbacks in the Tord Launch Year of PS5.
In the midst of pre -orders and excitement on pre -orders and nerve speculations about the impact of the prices, which has slightly slightly slightly under the radar, a small number of third -party software is a small number of slices that use their software with their software with the new software, with the new software, with the new software. Along with the posts, the cards have been made.
It seems a bit discretion in the decision -making places, some games are apparently sending games to key cards and real cartridges in others, but in third -party publishers, great trend games are towards priority game key cards. In Japan, for example, almost every third party game announced so far is being launched as a key card.
Switch 2 Media was a great example of an excellent example to use to show the impact of revenue on the media
Summary is that this means that when you buy a physical switch 2 game from a third party publisher, you probably. The actual game is not going to be found in the box. The Game Key Card is a new ideology introduced by Nintendo for this console, in response to publishers’ complaints about the high cost of cartridge manufacturing for the original switch. It looks like a traditional switch 2 cart, and it is similarly plugged into the console, but it only saves the license key for the software, not the game copy. Really, you have to connect the internet and download it on your own storage of console.
When the existence of this option was first mentioned, it was suggested that it would be a “third way” to launch a physical version of the sports for publishers, otherwise it would be digital. In a sense, it is the evolution of a system that has been using Nintendo for years in Japan-Game cards for famous titles are sold in stores across the country, but it contains only one plastic card that has an e-shop code instead of the original game cartridge with e-shop code.
The advantage is that it allows people to buy digital games and buy as gifts to others, or buy games without credit card. The negative aspect, of course, is that these games are completely digital, once the code is released, the physical card component becomes useless. Game key cards improve in key ways, offering some benefits of physical sports. They are portable like physical sports, which means that owners can freely loan or reproduce them, which is a huge consideration for many users (and especially for underage gamers who are probably most likely to be sports recipients as gifts).
However, in other cases, these are still digital titles that are masked as physical sports. It is impossible to play them without going online for a very large download (which causes any game to buy any game before a long flight, for example), and since they are not safe on the game card, your console storage management is a huge headache.
There is also a reasonable concern for access to access. At some point, the past -shaped and hope that the long distance from the line, Nintendo is likely to announce that it has eliminated online service support for switch 2 consoles, and these game key cards are becoming useful of plastic and silicon trash while the “real” game is becoming useful.
“This is a change that is driven by more basic economic factors, and some publishers will be willing to provide the game to save such a huge cost in marketing.”
If the game key cards were just replacing e-shop codes sold at Japan’s convenience stores, which are barely capable of mentioning it-but the launch details that have come out, are clear that many publishers are really releasing them as a pre-release method of release on Switch 2. Despite the disappointment, this is not surprising. The second major advantage of key cards, of course, is that they are significantly cheap with the original game cartridge, which allegedly runs about $ 15 in manufacturing costs due to the need for switch 2 for high -spike flash memory.
The risk of being subject to their prices will also lose weight on the minds of some publishers, but the decision to convert key cards clearly predicts tariff situation and apply outside the United States. This is a change that is driven by more basic economic factors, and some publishers will be willing to provide the game to save such a huge cost in marketing.
This situation is far from the biggest concern for Switch 2 as it is approaching the launch, but it is at risk of adding a considerable unpleasant show to the console use experience. Physical games will essentially become a two -level experience: there will be games that you buy and as soon as you enter the console, which is the actual promise of the cartridge -based system, and then you will have the playing games and instead need to free the long download time and its need on your device.
Nintendo’s packaging labels at least the game key cards very clearly, but many consumers are unlikely to know what it really means-especially those who buy games as gifts for grandchildren, for example.
Someone can argue that this is just Nintendo’s user experience that has been normal in another system for many years. Nevertheless, when you buy physical games for your PS5, there is usually a long installation process (because the Blu -ray drives are actually not so fast to run the game) and a big download to wait (because modern games never end when they leave for manufacturing).
When it was the first time it became normal, it was deeply unpopular, but consumers quickly became a habit, though it offends a large part of the console user’s experience and value proposal. Switch 2 users will be accustomed to any kind of process, but publishers weigh the profession and appointments of game key cards, it should be aware of how much the game key card switch platform is reduced to the platform and that this possibility should not be created on the game.
If the game is seen as the red flag of the icon bell luggage of the key card, the cost saving it can be really a palm victory.
