Other than the reveal of new hardware specifications for the Nintendo Switch 2, the excitement surrounding its upcoming release is overshadowed by hybrid cartridge utilization over physical copies of games.

With Switch, Nintendo is currently offering the platform friendliest to physical game collectors, but the existence of game-key cards for Switch 2 has the holdouts from the supposedly inevitable digital future feeling nervous. For now, though, it seems Nintendo has no plans to abandon proper retail cartridges.

Nintendo’s “game-key cards” may end up being physical gaming media’s last gasp—even though they don’t have a game on them at all.