Thread reminds me of the arguing we used to have here about a string of cross gen games at launch this gen and soon after. Who knew in 2026 it would still be a thing.

Lol, highly doubt it.  Switch 2 means key cards for third party with an occasional rare exception.  

Yeah, every time a third party game is announced its just "oh its going to be a GKC isnt it?"

It sucks. Nintendo really fucked up with these things.

If third parties don't want to pay for a cart, that's not Nintendo's fault. 

If Game Key Cards weren't an option, these publishers would just release their games digitally only or code-in-a-box.

Its Nintendos fault for not having different cart sizes. Thats why we get GKC for smaller games as well.

Absolutely.  I'm surprised people still expect actual game cards from third party.  Unless something changes the S2 is very much a digital console.  

We don't know the details behind why there's only one size though, smaller sizes may not have been economical for some reason, or maybe the manufacturer just doesn't offer anything under 64GB.

Even if there were say 32GB and 16GB cards, most of these publishers would still opt out just to cut costs. Heck, Switch 1 carts went down to 1GB, yet we still says a ton of code-in-box releases, digital only releases, and games requiring a large part of the game to be downloaded.

At the end of the day, it's just third parties wanting to minimise costs.

Not sure why you are trying to defend this shit, but be my guest I guess. 

Cant really blame third parties for not wanting to pay 16 dollars for a cart for their 30-60 dollar game.

this is why I always have said nintendo should never bend over backwards to please third party devs when it comes to developing their console. nintendo should only consider what nintendo wants to do because you can never count on these third parties to make a correct choice. 

for example people were critical that switch released with 32 gb of memory but it turned out to be more than enough storage. i own maybe 60 or so games and ive never needed to upgrade storage. why should nintendo have put 500 gb in the switch and drive up the price just because 2k doesnt know how to make a basketball game that doesnt take up 60 gb of space? 

Looking at the poor state of Monster Hunter Wilds this is... concerning. Guess it will run well on my PS5 at least. RE4 Remake is pretty nice on PS5