Nintendo's Biggest Chip Manufacturer Officially Exits Business

By Elijah Gonzalez · Polygon · Wednesday, 4 November 2026 at 17:13 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

As players continue to reel from Sony’s announcement that the company will stop producing physical discs for its games starting in 2028, fans of physical media have suffered another blow. It just got a lot harder for Nintendo to produce physical Switch game cartridges.

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