Talking Point: Will You Be Buying Any Game-Key Card Switch 2 Games?

Oh boycott.

The death of physical media has been looming for decades now, essentially since the internet made digital downloads a viable option for purchasing games - or purchasing your licences to play games. While Nintendo got involved relatively quickly (for Nintendo, at least) with WiiWare and Virtual Console digital downloads, there's still always been a strong link between this particular platform holder and the physical article.

And it's not just the need to provide stocking-fillers for parents and grandparents of a younger-skewing demographic; perhaps Nintendo's general preference for carts is also a factor. Cartridges have a more substantial, chunky physicality compared to discs - and even when the company went for optical media, the GameCube's cute 8cm discs and the curved edges of Wii U games injected some personality. Carts, with their unique forms and chip-filled innards, somehow feel more than just a blank medium with some data burned in. Just me?

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