Comment on Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 week agoits worse than comparing it to physical media that has all content on media, but better than display boxes that only has a digital code in it.
digital key carts are more replacing the latter (which is better) but there will definitely be a few devs who will opt out of physical media storage costs for the key card
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
how is it better than display boxes?
Kelly@programming.dev 1 week ago
Transferable licence.
They can be sold, gifted, inherited, etc.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That inheritance is going to be on a pretty short timespan, since 3DS and Wii U online services and downloads are already gone.
CHKMRK@programming.dev 1 week ago
The 3DS and Wii U eShop was available for more than a decade, a full 6 years after the Switch was released. So all in all I’d say it was available pretty long, especially considering that there was no authorization required to download a game, so they were paying for servers to give away games for free
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
outside of the official service, there is actually one other feature that people forget exists, and would be relevent to the resell of the key.
updating by local user (no not the recently announced game sharing stuff, but the ability to update a game via just being near a device with the update)