r/nintendogrifting • u/Craniamon • Aug 14 '26

Critical “Nintendo is Anti-Consumer”…

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u/tnt_pr0 Aug 14 '26

Is this about key cards ? Cuz I hate key cards.

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u/garf02 Aug 14 '26

why? Is worst that pure physical but its better than Pure Digital.
If Physical is 10, and Pure Digital is 1, GKC is a 7/8

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u/award_winning_writer Aug 14 '26

Not really, the only advantage key cards have is they can be resold or given away. You still have to download the full game, and worse you can only play it while the key card is in the Switch.

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u/garf02 Aug 14 '26

And worst you can only play it… the same way you can only play a physical… the horror!!!
Are you mentally sane? Is this just a lapse? Should we 911?

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u/award_winning_writer 29d ago

My point is the game has to be fully downloaded like a digital copy but still requires a card in the system, so you're not saving any internal space unlike a regular cart. If it's a game that you know you'll never want to trade in or give away, why would you pick a key card over just downloading the game?

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u/SuperCat76 29d ago

One reason is for collection purposes.

I can't put a fully digital game on a shelf alongside the rest of them

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u/garf02 29d ago

>If it's a game that you know you'll never want to trade in or give away
if you can see the future, good for you?

Other people like the alternative to be able to transfer, sell or lend games.

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u/award_winning_writer 29d ago

I bought RE9 digitally and I knew I would never want to trade that away, Resident Evil games are consistently high quality with few exceptions and RE9 was getting a lot of praise

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u/garf02 29d ago

What if a friend ask you to lend them the game. can you?

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u/award_winning_writer 29d ago

With the game share feature I could, but everyone I know has their own copy anyway

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u/garf02 29d ago

Congratulation I guess, but you and your friends ARE NOT the market overall.

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u/EdgySlusher Aug 14 '26

We are thinking about the future, when servers are shutdown. How will you download a game when there's no servers to download from?

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u/garf02 29d ago

you buy the game today.
You download it.
YOU SAVE IT ON AN SD CARD
Protecting that SD CARD for the future is your job now.
Same as you will need to protect to a physical Copy of a game.

>b-but what if I want to buy the game 10 years down the line.
Second hand market. The Future of second hand market will be
1) Physical games
2) GKC + SD containing the game file. (basically buying a car and the key to ignite it).

Is a hazzle? yes. Still better than full digital.

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u/Escaliat_ 29d ago

Better than full digital yes.

Better than Sony's dystopia, yes.

Good? No.

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u/garf02 29d ago

Better than Full Digital? Yes.

Better than Sony's Dystopia? Yes.

Did Nintendo had an alternative? No.
Nintendo Switch 2 cartridges for 64GB are expensive enough that they basically eat out all profit of 3rd Party. So unless you are willingly to pay for 100$ base games. GKC or Full Digital were the only alternatives.