I was looking forward to this one, but I'll skip it. Thankfully it's just a Minecraft clone, but this does not bode well for the future on Nintendo 1st party games. If this is what they do to their 1st party games, then I'll just stop buying all Nintendo games that aren't on a real physical format. 

While I’m not a fan of these GKCs, I feel this is taking it to a bit of an extreme. It does hinder some of my excitement to see games releasing on GKC, yes, but ultimately, if the game looks good, then I’m picking it up. And maybe for the first few minutes of playing the game, I’ll be slightly bothered by the fact that this is a GKC release. But beyond that? I probably won’t care, not even slightly, especially when 9 out of 10 games today require at least one or two patches to remain playable.

Ownership over the games you purchase has been a dead concept ever since day one patches became the industry norm. I encourage you not to be outraged by such trivial matters. You are ultimately hampering your own experience over something very meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

This one is technically a second party so I don't think other Nintendo games will follow

I just wish GCK was less expensive. Digital and GKC should be 10 USD less expensive than true physical games

At least you can sell the GKC, but yeah, I dont like it.

I wouldn't be so opposed to key cards if the were cheaper but noooo they'll still want $70 for this plus dlc so the day mario or zelda are key cards is the day I'm out

Maybe Nintendo is trying to promote Game Key Cards or at least lower the stigma surrounding them for the benefit of third parties. I still think it is a horrible idea. I actually by physical games on Nintendo. I don't want to see this become the norm.

It's inevitable. There is no future for cartridges and the AI spending boom is likely driving the cost of these kinds of storage (cartridge based) through the roof. They cost $16/cartridge just for 64GB, wouldn't be surprised if that price is actually going up even for Nintendo because the price of most high speed storage these days is increasing (again AI spend is driving prices of RAM, storage, etc. up). 

Nintendo should have just ripped the band-aid off and just made Switch 2 a digital only platform like every other portable electronic device is these days (and the Portable PS6 will be also) but they wanted a weird compromise and it just ends up with no one being happy.

I play games, not formats, so for me personally I've never  been attached to cartridges. As far as I'm concerned they've been a curse on Nintendo anyway, they cost Nintendo the entire traditional console market because of the stupid N64 cartridges which were terrible and crippled the system while simultaneously handing the market to Sony. I wish we had digital only back in the mid-90s with high speed internet, it would have allowed games like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy to be possible on the N64 without needing something stupid like a $150 cartridge. 

I agree that it should have been cheaper, simply because disk space is also something that costs

disk space is the only advantage physical cartilages have over digital

I would be more worried if it was a main line Pokémon game that was game key card. But yeah, not really a big fan of this.

GKC, 70 euros and looks cheap as fuck. Yeah, I'm gonna pass big time on this one.