You possibly can push any fears about seeing Mario on a Recreation-Key Card apart, as Nintendo has revealed to us that it has “no plans” to make use of the brand new bodily format on its first-party-developed titles.
After extra Swap 2 titles started to crop up below the Recreation-Key Card label, we reached out to Nintendo UK for affirmation about whether or not we should always anticipate to see the identical strategy used on Mario, Hyperlink and Samus’ future endeavours. At the moment, we obtained the next response:
We presently don’t have any plans to make use of game-key playing cards for Nintendo-developed titles
Now sure, the reply does particularly use the wording “Nintendo-developed titles” there, so there’s each likelihood that video games printed by the Large N is likely to be topic to a key card launch down the road. However your main entries within the core collection shall be full on cart in the interim, it appears.
This official phrase echoes Doug Bowser’s sentiment in his assertion on the aim of Swap 2’s new bodily choice. “Bodily video games are nonetheless a key a part of our enterprise,” the NOA president advised IGN in a latest interview, whereas Recreation-Key Playing cards are “a manner that our publishing companions are in a position to deliver extra content material onto the platform, deeper and bigger, extra immersive content material on the platform”.
The “publishing companions” specification within the above quote had us fairly assured that first-party releases could be off the Key Card desk, however it’s good to have official affirmation, all the identical.