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The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Switch 2 Game Key Card Situation Just Took an Unexpected Turn

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Technology, Society & Culture, Video Games, Leisure

4.7544 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Nintendo Switch 2 game key card situation just took an unexpected turn and we want to dig into one publisher's specific reason they HAD to use a game key card to bring their game to Switch 2. The reason might surprise you. Does this change your opinion of game key cards? What do you think this means for the future of third-party games on Switch 2? Let us know in the comments!

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0:00.0

The Switch 2 game key card, words you do not want to utter,

0:05.0

just took a very unexpected turn that we were not expecting to hear about,

0:12.0

and we want to talk about it.

0:14.0

Yeah, the Game Key Card saga is one of those things that never seems to go away.

0:18.0

It's always kind of lingering over the Switch 2 discussions.

0:22.6

And this point, it's been kind of circling around a lot of the same talking points.

0:28.0

Right.

0:28.4

But now we have something new has entered the ring.

0:30.7

Yeah.

0:31.1

Which is around Star Wars Outlaws.

0:34.0

A game that you are playing right now.

0:35.3

Right.

0:35.5

A new release for the Switch 2 from Ubisoft. I've been playing this game. So I play this game on PS5 when it first came out. Right. It's a pretty good game. I wouldn't say it's like a mind-blowing game, but from what I've seen so far, like this is a pretty good version of the game on Switch 2. We're not Digital Foundry. We will never try to pretend to be

0:55.5

Digital Foundry, but all I can say is from what I have seen with my two eyeballs, I like

0:59.9

how this game runs. From someone that has previously played on a PS5 and now is playing

1:05.6

on a Swiss. Your personal opinion is still valid. And I had a very positive, unexpected surprise when I booted the game up

1:13.7

and it's like, would you like to import your save from your other platform? And I said, yes, I certainly

1:18.7

would because I spent about a dozen hours playing it on the PS5 and now I'm just picking that up. So that's

1:22.8

nice. More games need that. Game key cards, though. Yes. So Star Wars Outlaws is on a game key card and obviously

1:30.3

when that news came out, people were mad. People were not happy. But now some new information has come

1:35.2

from Ubisoft themselves that I don't, we've never heard a developer saying this. Yeah,

1:41.5

about a game key card. And I don't know, depending on your position,

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