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Update thanks to thethatfox:

Physical game cards may also not actually contain the game:

Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview

Game-key cards are different from regular game cards, because they don’t contain the full game data. Instead, the game-key card is your "key" to downloading the full game to your system via the internet.

Update 2: There is probably a difference in Game-key cards and card that contain real game data. So we don't know right now how often these game-key cards are used or if nintendo is using them.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Physical media should be the default.

Especially in the past few years where companies have proven that if you don't own physical media, you don't own the media, and they can take it away for any reason at any time.