Even Nintendo’s Next Pokémon Game Will Be On A Game-Key Card
Kotaku | 11.11.2025 23:07
Since the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 in June, players have been pretty miffed to discover that the physical versions of many games don’t actually contain the game at all. Instead they’re so-called “game-key cards,” essentially a phony game cart that only contains an instruction to download the game from Nintendo’s servers. Until now, it’s something that’s only affected third-party titles, albeit some very big-name games. But now—with March 5, 2026’s Pokémon Pokopia—the phenomenon will seemingly affect a Nintendo-published game for the first time.
