{"id":1047158,"date":"2026-11-05T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047158"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:50:25","slug":"nintendo-switch-2-cartridge-maker-macronix-exits-rom-business-why-its-bad-news-for-physical-game-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/05\/nintendo-switch-2-cartridge-maker-macronix-exits-rom-business-why-its-bad-news-for-physical-game-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge maker Macronix exits ROM business: Why it&#8217;s bad news for physical game lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macronix, Nintendo&#8217;s main physical cartridge supplier for the Switch 2, is exiting the ROM production business. The decision comes as demand for physical game formats continues to weaken, with ROM sales contributing just 5% of Macronix&#8217;s total revenue last quarter, compared with 26% a year earlier. There is no indication of an immediate shortage of Nintendo game cartridges. However, many say that this may push the company towards digital distribution. <\/p>\n<p>Analyst David Gibson said physical games are not being phased out for now but Macronix&#8217;s decision may force Nintendo to move towards a digital-only era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macronix, Nintendo&#8217;s main physical cartridge supplier for the Switch 2, is exiting the ROM production business. The decision comes as demand for physical game formats continues to weaken, with ROM sales contributing just 5% of Macronix&#8217;s total revenue last quarter, compared with 26% a year earlier. There is no indication of an immediate shortage of Nintendo game cartridges. However, many say that this may push the company towards digital distribution. Analyst David Gibson said physical games are not being phased out for now but Macronix&#8217;s decision may force Nintendo to move towards a digital-only era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047180,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047158\/revisions\/1047180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}