{"id":1014,"date":"2025-05-06T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:56:04","slug":"former-assassins-creed-lead-isnt-happy-about-switch-2s-game-key-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/former-assassins-creed-lead-isnt-happy-about-switch-2s-game-key-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Assassin&#039;s Creed Lead Isn&#039;t Happy About Switch 2&#039;s Game-Key Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I hate it. I think it&#8217;s sort of lame&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An awful lot of talk out of the Switch 2 Direct has focused on the console&#8217;s new Game Key Cards, whether they are a good thing for the industry and if anyone will actually buy the damn things. Now, in a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogamer.com\/news\/nintendo-switch-2-game-key-cards-lose-what-makes-gaming-special-far-cry-lead\/?callback=in&amp;code=ZJAXYTBKZDATOTBHZS0ZNWEYLWFJZGUTZGIYYJA5M2I1YTMW&amp;state=53d77be263dd4619bb7acbee2a694097\">VideoGamer<\/a>, the Creative Director on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/assassins_creed_iii\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed III<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-one\/far_cry_4\">Far Cry 4<\/a>, Alex Hutchinson, has shared his two-pence on the fresh-faced physical option \u2014 spoilers, he&#8217;s not all that keen.<\/p>\n<p>The dev drew the comparison between the Switch 2 Game Key Cards and the similar approach taken by the Xbox One back in 2013, saying that Nintendo is going to &#8220;get away with it,&#8221; while fans were quick to criticise Microsoft. \u201cIt just shows you the power of nostalgia in our business that the way they will beat up Microsoft versus Nintendo is just not the same, especially in Europe,&#8221; Hutchinson stated, &#8220;It\u2019s like, \u2018oh, Nintendo\u2019s doing it, alright we\u2019re not gonna say much\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/former-assassins-creed-lead-isnt-happy-about-switch-2s-game-key-cards\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hate it. I think it&#8217;s sort of lame&#8221;. An awful lot of talk out of the Switch 2 Direct has focused on the console&#8217;s new Game Key Cards, whether they are a good thing for the industry and if anyone will actually buy the damn things. Now, in a new interview with VideoGamer, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}