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Does a game key card cart have to be in the Switch to play the game or is it not needed after the game has been redeemed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, is it an eshop game at that point or some sort of worst of both worlds situation?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This only helps in areas where internet is scarce or non existent. Even banned switches are allowed to download firmware updates even if everythint else is blocked (source: just did this myself recently)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This really was only meant as a hypothetical. The Switch 2 requires a launch day firmware update; that is probably on the launch day carts: is it also on the launch day game key cards?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Even if it did have firmware, the card is burned months ahead of shipping, and launch day firmware was finalized only days or weeks before launch. A game that comes out 6 months later might have launch day firmware, but that's likely outdated by the time of release.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t the entire point of including the firmware on carts to ensure your system meets the minimum requirements to run the game? Packaging a non-functional version would be ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Game Key Cards won't function without connectiong to the internet to download anyway, so there's probably not much point in including firmware updates on those.

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