Blew my mind to realize TOTK is yea൩rs old now, in my head it was like last year 😂

Hoping it's not brought up for GOTY talks though. To my understanding I think you 🔯have to do🔴 remaster work (like Sony with their repeat updates of TLOU) or a new content drop (like last year's controversy with Elden Ring being included due to SotET). I don't think mild next gen updates make em eligible. Like Witcher 3 iirc re-entered conversation with expansions, not with the PS5 update patch

"It's a measure for Nintendo to get games onto the Switch 2 that𒈔 may have larger file sizes than the maximum 64GB cartridges will allow."

Thats called the eshop.

That’s my issue - Game Key Cards function as a physical license check for what is essentially a digital download. You lose the benefits of both formats.

Physical users no longer get a self-contained game. That’s a problem for families or anyone sharing devices. With a cart like Mario Odyssey, you ꦑjust pop it in - no downloads, no account issues. But will these Key Cards even be resellable? Are they one-time use, like a digital code is now? And if you want to play the game on a second Switch, you're now juggling re-d𝕴ownloads, accounts, and master device permissions. Can you share by just handing the cart over and making them download, or do you ALSO have to use their new digital lending feature and temporarily block the game from YOUR ability to use it? Because that method works on a time function, as physical sharing is naturally limited by the physical location of the cartridge. Are we combining both methods here into one headache?

Digital users lose portability. Normally, I cloud-save and switch freely between my Switch and Lite. But with a Key Card, I still have to download the game and carry a cart to play - defeating the convenie�▨�nce of digital.

A real example: BotW (we have physical) let my son and I swap freely between consoles and profiles. TotK (we went digital) required juggling which device was set as primary just so we could both access it under ou🍃r own profiles - but as long as he was on the Switch and I was on the Lite, we literally could play the game simultaneously.

Game Key Cards risk combining the inconvenience of both formats without the strengths of either.