{"id":1631,"date":"2025-08-13T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:05:38","slug":"new-grand-theft-auto-trilogy-physical-switch-release-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/new-grand-theft-auto-trilogy-physical-switch-release-spotted\/","title":{"rendered":"New Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Physical Switch Release Spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: New listing pops up in Europe and it&#8217;s a &#8220;code-in-box&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/game-key-cards-dont-sit-right-with-us-lost-in-cult-dives-into-its-new-physical-games-line\">arrival of Game-Key Cards<\/a> on the Switch 2, there has been ongoing discussion about the future of third-party physical releases. Even during the Switch generation, certain hard copy releases didn&#8217;t always live up to expectations, opting to include a download code instead of the actual game.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/story-of-seasons-publisher-says-physical-switch-2-releases-are-the-right-decision-for-us\">some more welcome stories<\/a>, and with this in mind, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/contents\/51707-gta-the-trilogy-definitive-edition-sees-physical-release-with-no-download-required\">there are reports today<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/grand_theft_auto_the_trilogy_-_the_definitive_edition\">Grand Theft Auto: Trilogy<\/a> might now be available as a proper physical release on the original Switch platform after all this time.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/new-grand-theft-auto-trilogy-physical-switch-release-spotted\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: New listing pops up in Europe and it&#8217;s a &#8220;code-in-box&#8221;. Since the arrival of Game-Key Cards on the Switch 2, there has been ongoing discussion about the future of third-party physical releases. Even during the Switch generation, certain hard copy releases didn&#8217;t always live up to expectations, opting to include a download code instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1633,"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\/1631"}],"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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}