Deku Deals, an aggregator of sales and discounts for physical games, shared some new data about its users that shows game key cards are selling just fine. “Of the 1,070 Deku Deals users who have added one or more third party physical releases to their collection, 735 of them own one or more Game-Key Card titles,” the site wrote in a new blog post this week. There’s even a pie chart to show the disparity.
The site also listed the most popular Switch 2 games among its users. Six of them are game key cards (with asterisk):
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition
*Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
Hades II
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
*Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition
*Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut
*Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
*Street Fighter 6 Years 1-2 Fighters Edition
*Persona 3 Reload
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
Of course, it’s worth noting that the majority of Switch 2 physical games are actually game key cards. So if you’re someone who just buys a bunch of games in general, or are one of those hyper-fans who wants to own all of the Switch 2’s launch library, you’re going to end up with a bunch of game key cards by default. At the same time, the survey at least suggests that people who would buy physical in the first place are still opting for game key cards over just buying the game digitally from the eShop. That’s probably the sentiment that led Nintendo to launch game key cards in the first place.
