{"id":91021,"date":"2026-10-12T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91021"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:52:57","slug":"nintendo-says-it-has-no-plans-to-ditch-physical-games-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91021","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Says It Has No Plans To Ditch Physical Games Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike Sony, which has decided to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028\/\">move toward a\u00a0digital-only<\/a> game marketplace starting in 2028, Nintendo\u00a0is sticking to an &#8220;agnostic&#8221; approach for the Switch 2 console. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BaLVcqavw74?t=717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new interview<\/a>, Nintendo&#8217;s VP and general manager for Latin America, Bill van Zyll, said the company will still offer both physical and digital versions of games to meet consumer demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Historically, we\u2019ve been very agnostic,&#8221;\u00a0van Zyll\u00a0said to YouTuber Coelho no Jap\u00e3o. &#8220;We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very heavily. We also have a platform that was just launched. We&#8217;re barely just over a year into NS2 (Nintendo Switch 2), and\u00a0it&#8217;s got both digital and also\u00a0physical&#8211;that capability. There are no plans to ditch physical. We know how much the fans like it as well, so our position has been to be agnostic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/BaLVcqavw74?t=715  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like its predecessor, the Switch 2 lets you run games by using either\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/switch-2-carts-still-taste-bad-designed-purposefully-to-be-spat-out\/1100-6530649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foul-tasting<\/a>\u00a0physical cartridges or downloads from the Nintendo eShop onto the console. One big difference in this generation is the introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/certain-nintendo-switch-2-physical-games-are-game-key-cards-for-downloads\/1100-6530576\/\">Game-Key Cards<\/a> as a low-cost solution for developers, which act as authentication keys for games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These will require you to both insert the cart and download the game to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Sony, which has decided to\u00a0move toward a\u00a0digital-only game marketplace starting in 2028, Nintendo\u00a0is sticking to an &#8220;agnostic&#8221; approach for the Switch 2 console. In a new interview, Nintendo&#8217;s VP and general manager for Latin America, Bill van Zyll, said the company will still offer both physical and digital versions of games to meet consumer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":91023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91021","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\/91021"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91024,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91021\/revisions\/91024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}