{"id":1184,"date":"2025-07-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:11:05","slug":"furukawas-defence-of-game-key-cards-aint-all-that-convincing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/furukawas-defence-of-game-key-cards-aint-all-that-convincing\/","title":{"rendered":"Furukawa&#039;s Defence Of Game-Key Cards Ain&#039;t All That Convincing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corporate talk in 3&#8230; 2&#8230; 1&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has today published the transcript of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2025\/qa2506.pdf\">85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders<\/a>, in which company president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked to comment on the Switch 2&#8217;s Game-Key Card releases. Unsurprisingly, he came to the defence of the format. Equally unsurprisingly, we&#8217;re still not convinced.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted on BlueSky by <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/oatmealdome.bsky.social\/post\/3lsxagrh4tp2j\">@oatmealdome<\/a>, the topic arose from one shareholder&#8217;s announcement to the Nintendo directors that they have concerns about the Game-Key Card format. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen opinions on the internet saying that Game-Key Cards are unappealing,&#8221; the investor said, &#8220;I&#8217;m concerned that if third-party titles using Game-Key Cards don&#8217;t sell well, it will discourage third parties from supporting the Switch 2&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/furukawas-defence-of-game-key-cards-aint-all-that-convincing\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate talk in 3&#8230; 2&#8230; 1&#8230; Nintendo has today published the transcript of its 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, in which company president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked to comment on the Switch 2&#8217;s Game-Key Card releases. Unsurprisingly, he came to the defence of the format. Equally unsurprisingly, we&#8217;re still not convinced. As highlighted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}