- Nintendo’s key game key cards have not been well received since the launch of Switch 2
- The remake of Final Fantasy 7, originally in 2020, will arrive at the console, but only as a keys card
- The game weighs 90 GB
The Nintendo 2 switch port of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Interrogradewho finally obtained a release date during last week Nintendo Directwill get a physical outing on January 22, 2026 – but it will only be a gaming key card in the box, and it should be huge.
The format, which has been very deceased among physical game collectors, will essentially offer a license for a downloadable version of the game, but not the full title of the cartridge.
As indicated on Square Enix storeThe game is clearly labeled as offering a game key (thank you, Eurogamer), which means that it is not very useful without internet connection.
While key game cards have become widespread in the Nintendo Switch 2’s first months, Final Fantasy 7 Apparently landed on this format due to the volume of the game.
Nintendo Switch 2 cartridges are available in up to 64 GB of sizes, but Final Fantasy 7 Remake Interrograde Pass around 90 GB according to its eShop list, so you will probably have to buy a microSD Express Nintendo Switch 2 card.
If you have already played the game on PS5, PC or even PS4 when it was launched in 2020, you will probably be less faked by this decision, but that means that the owners of Switch 2 will see Cloud Strife and Co. Take a third of the basic storage capacity of the console. Since Switch 2 does not use microSD cards (which are reasonably cheap) and rather need microSD Express cards, this could end up being an expensive addition to your library.
While some developers have managed to adapt to fairly large games on cartridges (each passing week, Cyberpunk 2077 On Switch 2, looks like witchcraft), others have suggested that performance can suffer.
Earlier this month, a developer on Star Wars Outlaws suggested that the switching cartridges “simply did not give the performance we needed to the quality objective that we were going Bluesky.
