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Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards May Be a Forced Choice to Overcome Cartridge Limitations

Nintendo Switch 2 units with Joy-Con controllers

Releasing Nintendo Switch 2 games on Game-Key Cards may be a forced choice for some developers due to raditional cartridges’ technical limitations. Speaking on Bluesky, Ubisoft Snowdrop Engine audio architect Rob Bantin provided some interesting insight on why a developer may choose to release a game on a Game Key Card, revealing that the Switch 2 cartridges didn’t give the performance needed at the quality target they were going for in the Star Wars Outlaws. The game is powered by the Snowdrop engine, which heavily relies on disk streaming for its open-world environments. While this is a critical limitation, it […]

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