Yet. They'll let Sony take the heat for going first, but we know this is what all three console manufacturers want sooner or later.

It's obvious that Game Key Cards are a step towards a gradual phase-out. Cartridges are a lot more expensive to manufacture than disks, and probably getting worse due to datacenters driving up the price of flash memory. It's not a question of if they'll ditch cartridges, but when.

I expect we'll continue to see carts for the remainder of the Switch 2's lifespan, but we may see a point at which they only do GKCs for late gen titles. And then after that, the Switch 3 will be all digital.