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They are tradeable and resellable which is a very important property for poorer gamers instead of rich collectors like us.

Edit: Switch 2 is also biggest proponent of SD Express. Any supporter of SD cards coming back to phones and other devices should appreciate the stance taken here. Nintendo could've gone the Google/Apple route and just sold 512GB and 1TB models. Instead this effort, like Sony's Xperia phones, are completely unrecognized.

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I wonder if the SD Express will be taken advantage of in the switch 2 homebrew scene which seems inevitable now.

SD Express is PCIe express after all (also a possible attack vector in itself, see DaMAgeCard). With nvidia drivers for Ampere already on board maybe someone will get an RTX 3090 running on a switch 2.

If you get banned from online, all of your keycard games are bricked

No because they don't use the eShop infrastructure.

I doubt they have a second set of download servers just for the key cards. When my switch original was banned I couldn’t download updates for physical game cards. The whole download and update service was blocked.

No, because I can sell the games.

On the other hand, the Orange Box I bought from 2007 cannot be transferred in any way, even though the disc is in my hand and my account is in good standing. I think you guys have your priorities messed up.

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