- Key nintendo game cards have not been well received since the launch of Switch 2
- The Final Fantasy 7 remake, originally released in 2020, will come to the console, but only as a game game
- The game weighs 90 GB
The Nintendo Switch 2 port of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergradewhich finally obtained a release date last week Nintendo DirectYou will get a physical launch on January 22, 2026, but it will only be a game key letter in the painting, and is ready to be huge.
The format, which has been very defamed among physical games collectors, will essentially offer a license for a downloadable version of the game, but not the full title in the cartridge.
As shown in Square Enix’s storeThe game is clearly labeled as offering a key to the game (thanks, Eurogamer), which means that it is of little use without an Internet connection.
While the key cards of the game have become frequent in the Nintendo Switch 2’s first months, Final Fantasy 7 Apparently it lands in that format due to the large volume of the game.
Nintendo Switch 2 cartridges are available in sizes up to 64 GB, but Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade It weighs about 90 GB according to its Eshop list, so you are likely to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card.
If you already played the game on PS5, PC or even PS4 when it was launched in 2020, you are likely to be less concerned about this decision, but it means that Switch 2 owners will see Cloud Strife and Co. Take a third of the base storage capacity of the console. Since Switch 2 does not wear microSD cards (which are reasonably cheap) and instead needs MicroSD Express cards, as a result it could end up being a expensive addition to its library.
While some developers have managed to adapt to quite considerable games in cartridges (every week passing, Cyberpunk 2077 On Switch 2 feels like witchcraft), others have suggested that performance can suffer.
Earl this month, a developer in Star Wars Outlaws He suggested that Switch 2 cartridges “simply did not give the performance we needed in the quality objective we were looking for” Bluesky.
