{"id":90358,"date":"2026-09-30T06:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90358"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:36:27","slug":"the-witcher-3-remastered-nintendo-switch-2-can-be-unlocked-for-free-even-if-you-borrow-a-switch-physical-copy-from-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90358","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3 Remastered Nintendo Switch 2 Can Be Unlocked for Free Even if You Borrow a Switch Physical Copy From a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\">The Witcher 3 Remastered<\/a> can be unlocked on Switch 2 for free via any physical version of the game for Switch \u2014 whether its your copy of the game or not.<\/p>\n<p>Switch 2 owners have discovered that physical cartridges for The Witcher 3 on Switch can be used an unlimited number of times to grant a digital copy of The Witcher 3 Remastered. So, all you need to do is rent or borrow a copy of the game to unlock unlimited access. And no, you don&#8217;t need to keep the original game cartridge inserted after unlocking the upgraded digital version.<\/p>\n<p>Have a friend with the game? Ask to borrow it! Have a cheap second-hand game shop nearby? Head in and see if there&#8217;s a copy for sale, and then trade it back in!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch2\/comments\/1wt7xin\/can_confirm_switch_1_cartridge_is_no_longer\/\">Can confirm. Switch 1 cartridge is no longer needed after claiming witcher 3 remastered.<\/a><br \/> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Howwy23\/\">u\/Howwy23<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch2\/\">NintendoSwitch2<\/a> .reddit-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; }<\/p>\n<p>This remarkably generous solution is the result of CD Projekt keeping its promise that upgrades for the newly-relaunched RPG classic will be free on all platforms, even for physical copies. And while there&#8217;s no version of The Witcher 3 Remastered for Nintendo&#8217;s original Switch,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher 3 Remastered can be unlocked on Switch 2 for free via any physical version of the game for Switch \u2014 whether its your copy of the game or not. Switch 2 owners have discovered that physical cartridges for The Witcher 3 on Switch can be used an unlimited number of times to grant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":90360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90362,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90358\/revisions\/90362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}