A New Game is launched As Cyberpunk 2077 tops Switch 2 sales charts, one analyst says divisive game-key cards “aren’t a major issue” for most gamers and a Baldur’s Gate 3 dev agrees is launched.
As Cyberpunk 2077 tops Switch 2 sales charts, one analyst says divisive game-key cards “aren’t a major issue” for most gamers and a Baldur’s Gate 3 dev agreesnew features
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“So many people are taking Cyberpunk 2077 at #1 to mean that no one is buying game key cards, but that’s not the full story.”
As Cyberpunk 2077 tops Switch 2 sales charts, one analyst says divisive game-key cards “aren’t a major issue” for most gamers and a Baldur’s Gate 3 dev agrees new features
Game-keys cards have been pretty controversial since the Nintendo Switch 2 dropped. They’re regular-looking carts that you get when buying a physical copy, but they don’t actually contain the full game data. It’s essentially a glorified download code in a box. But one analyst reckons that Cyberpunk 2077 being the only major third-party game to launch in a real cartridge didn’t help its sales that much.
In case you missed it, Cyberpunk 2077 was the best-selling third-party Switch 2 game in the US. It’s also, maybe coincidentally, the only major non-Nintendo game to avoid going the game-key card route. The entire 64gb game is on the Switch 2 cartridge if you pick it up physically – a decision CD Projekt Red calls the “right thing to do.”
Of course, physical collectors saw this as an encouraging sign: game-key cards aren’t selling as well as the one normal, all-on-cart game. Although, in a recent social media post, Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad says that’s “not the full story.”