Final Fantasy 7 Remake is the newest game on the Nintendo Switch 2 game-key card roster, and you'll need to give up a big chunk of your storage for it.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is finally coming to new consoles after almost six years of being a PlayStation console exclusive (with a PC release coming slightly after the original). But, as is sadly the story almost every time a big third-party release comes to Switch 2 (barring a few exceptions like Cyberpunk 2077 and Hades 2), Final Fantasy 7 Remake is going to be on a game-key card.
Square Enix confirmed the news on its store website (as spotted by Eurogamer), where – much like the other Square Enix Switch 2 releases – the box art for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade on Switch 2 is on display with that fabled game-key card logo.
Not only that, but a look at the game's Nintendo eShop listing also reveals that it's now going to be the largest Switch 2 game to date (the previous high was WWE 2K25 with 73.2GB), with a required space of up to 87.9GB (and you need 90GB available to download it) meaning if you're only working with the regular Switch 2 storage of 256GB, that's just over a third of your storage taken up right there. Considering 6.9GB of that is reserved for the system files, that proportion goes up even more.
Most third-party publishers are using game-key cards so far, with many speculating the high price of 64GB cards to be the reason. However, a Ubisoft developer recently claimed that Star Wars Outlaws was made a game-key card release as the Switch 2 cartridges just weren't fast enough. With that said, that's a big open world game, which probably requires a bit more oomph than Final Fantasy, so I don't know if that reason works for everyone.
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