Pokemon Pokopia breaks tradition for Nintendo-published Switch 2 games, will be a game-key card

Information about Pokemon Pokopia is tricking out, and one of the big tidbits making the rounds is that it’ll be a game-key card.

That information comes from a new video Nintendo put up today. In it, the company explains the differences between a game that’s fully on the cartridge and a game-key card. Pokemon Pokopia was used as an example of the latter.

This is noteworthy as it’ll be the first Nintendo-published title on Nintendo Switch 2 that’s a game-key card. We’ve already seen a Pokemon release on the system – Pokemon Legends: Z-A – which was fully on the cartridge. You can make the case that The Pokemon Company is co-publishing, but regardless, it still counts.

Outside of that, Pokemon Pokopia shared its release date today – catch up on that here. A new trailer will be dropping later this week as well.

If you’re interested in the list of every game-key card on Nintendo Switch, we have that covered here.