Like I told you, what I said…
Yes that is a thing. The game cart basically acts as a digital key and you have to download the game. You also have to have the game cart in the system to play the downloaded game. Thankfully the boxes that have this are clearly labeled. One benefit of this is you can resell these games which you couldn’t previously do for any digital game. Not a fan of the practice and having plastic junk for what is essentially a digital game, though. Seems these virtual game carts are selling poorly so hopefully publishers will start using actual full games on carts going forward.
That wasn’t what I was referring to in my original comment, though.
Correct. There are websites like humble bundle that you can buy games from and they deliver the games as steam keys. Fanatical is another one that has lots of bundles.
Check out isthereanydeal.com and scroll to the bottom to see all bundles from all sites. Also it’s a good site to compare game deals and all the different sites deliver the games as steam keys.
Pixel phones are so damn cheap on eBay. There’s no reason to buy directly from google.