{"id":135245,"date":"2025-12-17T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195484"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:30:00","slug":"rumour-a-game-key-card-alternative-nintendo-may-have-smaller-switch-2-carts-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/rumour-a-game-key-card-alternative-nintendo-may-have-smaller-switch-2-carts-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: A Game-Key Card Alternative? Nintendo May Have Smaller Switch 2 Carts In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Game-Key Cards have been perhaps the hottest topic of the Switch 2’s lifecycle so far. Outside of particularly large releases, the running theory is that many studios are turning to a Game-Key physical release because Nintendo has failed to offer small\/cheap options for those who don’t want to cough up for the big 64GB cartridges. But that might be about to change.<\/p>\n

A rumour making the rounds online today states that Nintendo will soon introduce 16 and 32GB cartridge options, so smaller devs hoping to launch a physical release won’t have to turn to Key Cards as the only financially viable way of making it happen.<\/p>\n

That is according to both the game preservation community Does It Play<\/a> and Physical Paradise<\/a> on Twitter, the latter of which claims to have been informed of the introduction by two separate sources.<\/p>\n