Game Key Cards 1 Year In

[Fido]

Spike0503 said:

Paperboy_J said:

Can't believe people are genuinely worried about what video games they may or may not be able to play 20 years down the line. It's crazy, obsessive even. I'm sorry, but if you are legitimately concerned that a game you own right now won't be playable in 20 years, you are obsessed and need help.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 20 years or what I'll be doing, but what GAMES I'll have available to me really isn't all that high on my list of concerns.

Couldn't disagree with you more. There's nothing wrong with the stance that you don't worry about this type of thing but why is it hard for you to understand that people want to know the products they bought with their hard earned cash will still be available in the future? I think even if I had your stance I would still understand collectors and why they want to keep using the stuff they bought.

Heck, 20 years is nothing. I own PS1 games produced 30 years ago that still work perfectly. 

As for GKC, I don't own any and there's nothing that could convince me to get one. I either get a full cartridge or I purchase the game elsewhere.

I can understand the concern with the GCKs in some ways, but if we are for real, we have no guarantee that our Discs and Cartridges from the 90s will still work in 10 years either. Both those mediums have an expiration date usually, Discrot is a thing and Cartridges can go bad as well.

You can still download your purchases on the Wii and DSi nowadays, even if those stores have been down for years. Plus, should Nintendo in the future decide to shut the store and the servers down, they will do so only after an announciation, which will give you time to make sure your GCKs are downloaded to your Switch 2 or SD Express card. You will be able to play those for forever technically, since the GKCs don't require an internet connection, as long as the data is downloaded.