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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will you be willing to buy Virtual Game Cards, or would go all digital instead?

« on: April 09, 2025, 05:28:09 AM »

Assuming a full on-cartridge physical copy isn't available, would you be willing to buy a game on a Virtual Game Card, or would you just bite the bullet and get a full digital copy if it came to that?

I'm thinking I might just go full digital at that point... my Switch 1 collection is primarily physical, and I had fun lending stuff out that way. But in reality I didn't do a lot of lending... Sometime I'd lend games to my brother, but he's on my family account and I could lend him a digital copy that way if it came to it, or we'd just buy a second copy completely. And with a Digital Copy I sort of have the license tied to my account wherever I take that account in the future, and I don't have to worry about "losing" the physical copy.

It's neat that the Game Key Card preserves a way to lend (or sell) the game to ANYONE outside my family account (or "second console"), but it feels icky to have a whole physical thing that's basically just a license to download the actual real thing.

Oh my god, are Game Key Cards just NFTs???

I’m also torn between getting a Game Key Card or going full digital. If there isn’t a physical copy available, I think I’d lean towards digital because it’s more convenient and I don’t have to worry about losing a cartridge. Plus, with digital games, I can play on any console as long as I’m logged into my account, which is super flexible.
I think I’d stick with digital unless the game isn’t available in that format.
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