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Star Wars Outlaws dev comes out with first actually good reason for using Switch 2's controversial Game Key Cards


Here's one good reason for Nintendo's Switch 2 key cards, from a Star Wars Outlaws developer.

Bantin noted the Snowdrop engine "relies heavily on disk streaming for its open world environments", adding they "don't recall the cost of the cards ever entering the discussion - probably because it was moot". The developer said had Star Wars Outlaws been designed for Nintendo's Switch 2 console from the beginning, things may have been different. "As it was, we'd build a game around the SSDs of the initial target platforms, and then the Switch 2 came along a while later," Bantin said.

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