YouTuber Coelho no Jap\u00e3o<\/a> that the company acknowledged fans’ interest in physical media, and stressed it is guided by what consumers want.<\/p>\n“Historically, we’ve been very agnostic, right?” he said. “We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very heavily.”<\/p>\n
He noted that the Nintendo Switch 2, which launched in June 2025, is “barely just over a year” into its life and has “both digital and physical” capability.<\/p>\n
“There’s no plans to ditch physical,” van Zyll added. “We know how much the fans like it as well, so our position has been to be agnostic.”<\/p>\n
Switch 2 games can be bought digitally, mainly through the Nintendo eShop, or on cartridge. Some cartridges hold the full game, while others, known as Game-Key Cards, only serve as a license for the digital version.<\/p>\n
As Eurogamer notes, these Game-Key Cards have drawn consumer pushback on several releases when buyers discover their physical version is only a key card.<\/p>\n
The comments follow Sony’s announcement in July that it will end production of physical discs for all new PlayStation games from January 2028<\/a>. The change applies to new releases from that date. Sony announced it in a post on the PlayStation Blog and cited a shift in customer behavior toward digital purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has no plans to move away from physical games. As spotted by Eurogamer, vice president and general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-628581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}