Nintendo is taking a strict stance against a third-party cartridge, even if players aren't using it for piracy.

Running games on the Mig requires you to download them from others who have dumped files off of cartridges, or dump the games ...

Nintendo isn't messing around with the Switch 2 and is taking major steps to prevent piracy and tampering with the console.

In other words, when you put a Switch 2 Edition cartridge in a Switch 1, the older console knows to ignore the Switch 2 bit and just play the original game. Nintendo doesn't appear to have ever ...

Nintendo is actively working to block "easy" modding attempts and prevent potential piracy on its new console.

Kinda surprised," John Ricciardi, founder of Tokyo-based video game localization firm 8-4, wrote on Bluesky today, upon testing his Zelda: Breath of the Wild Nintendo Switch 2 Edition cartridge on ...

As far as physical copies of the games are concerned, Nintendo Switch 2 will use game-key cards. Switch 1 uses the conventional game cartridges which essentially contains the full game data. But ...

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TL;DR: Video game developers face high costs shipping full games on Switch 2 cartridges due to expensive storage and MicroSD Express technology. Nintendo’s Game-key Cards offer a low-cost hybrid ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 has only been in our hands for two weeks, but already, players are being banned from using online ...

The one upside of Nintendo’s approach is that a physical Switch 2 Edition will be usable with both generations of console, but it is a shame that Nintendo hasn’t produced a cross-gen cartridge ...