{"id":844,"date":"2025-06-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:12:12","slug":"publishers-are-thanking-nintendo-for-game-key-cards-on-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/publishers-are-thanking-nintendo-for-game-key-cards-on-switch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers Are &#8220;Thanking&#8221; Nintendo For Game-Key Cards On Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to a Japanese consultancy firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Game-Key Cards for the Switch 2 have proven to be a monumentally controversial move from Nintendo, with many fans upset at the potential implications for game preservation and ownership.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to a short quote from Kaoko Kino, president of Japanese video game consultancy firm Kyos Inc, publishers are &#8220;thanking&#8221; Nintendo for Game-Key Cards, noting that the move will help offset the rising cost of game development (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-04\/nintendo-switch-2-release-day-time-price-and-consumer-reaction\">Bloomberg<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/publishers-are-thanking-nintendo-for-game-key-cards-on-switch-2\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Japanese consultancy firm. Game-Key Cards for the Switch 2 have proven to be a monumentally controversial move from Nintendo, with many fans upset at the potential implications for game preservation and ownership. However, according to a short quote from Kaoko Kino, president of Japanese video game consultancy firm Kyos Inc, publishers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"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\/844"}],"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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}