{"id":957,"date":"2025-05-13T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:19:04","slug":"rumour-new-leak-may-explain-why-so-many-switch-2-physicals-are-game-key-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/rumour-new-leak-may-explain-why-so-many-switch-2-physicals-are-game-key-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: New Leak May Explain Why So Many Switch 2 Physicals Are Game Key Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big bytes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest talking points out of the Switch 2 reveal has been Nintendo&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/every-nintendo-switch-2-game-key-card-release\">Game Key Cards<\/a>. For those who missed it, these physical cartridges don&#8217;t contain the game itself, but rather a download key to access the title digitally. We&#8217;ve already seen this format confirmed for the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/street-fighter-6-years-1-2-fighters-edition\">Street Fighter 6<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/split-fiction\">Split Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/star-wars-outlaws\">Star Wars Outlaws<\/a> and many more titles, and now, a new leak may explain why (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/leak-may-explain-why-so-many-physical-switch-2-games-are-actually-digital-downloads-2000600879\">Gizmodo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/gaming\/guilty-gear-strive-source-code-leak-explained-season-5-characters-discovered-3193826\/\">Dexerto<\/a> reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/guilty_gear_-strive-_nintendo_switch_edition\">Guilty Gear Strive<\/a> developer Arc System Works had been hacked, leading to a boatload of leaks regarding the studio&#8217;s upcoming titles and updates. According to leaker and Universo Nintendo editor <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/necrolipe\">@necrolipe<\/a>, one piece of info out of the hack suggests that Nintendo is only offering very limited format options for third-party Switch 2 releases, potentially explaining why so many are turning to the Game Key Card option.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/rumour-new-leak-may-explain-why-so-many-switch-2-physicals-are-game-key-cards\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big bytes. One of the biggest talking points out of the Switch 2 reveal has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}