Yeah, up until 8GB it's really cheap, but then it starts curbing upwards. 16GB should be pretty cheap too nowadays, with 32GB however starting to become expensive. 64GB, while technically very possible, would eat to much of the profits to make then viable right now.

On that note, Optical dics are also getting more and more expensive since they are getting less and less mass produced. With movies increasingly coming in digital form through the internet, the demand for Blu-Rays has been dropping for years, making the production more expensive in turn. In other words, for smaller capacities, Switch cartridges should slowly actually become cheaper than Blu-Ray Discs in the smaller categories (4 and 8GB).

We are, those people are mostly playing on something other than Nintendo, though. We shouldn't forget that Nintendo is only a small slice of the gaming market. PC and mobile are already 100% digital and PS4 and Xbox are approaching 50%, if they haven't already passed it. So yes, we're already very much in that digital generation with the vast majority of games not coming with a physical release anymore.

Pre-rendered cutscenes?
I play a lot of games and I've noticed that nearly everything is real time nowadays.
Hellblade doesn't have any pre-rendered cutscenes FYI.

Yer this whole release incomplete games with bugs then suddenly need a day 1 20GB file to fix shit is getting beyond stupid.

How are you meant to manage all these downloads? What happens when the gen ends and you haven't had a chance to install all your games and patches and then the services are shutdown? You have a lot of broken games, or games that are tide to a console.

This is something I don't get. How do you manage all your digital downloads for when the online services eventually get shut down? you won't be able to download and reinstall the games again.

interesting, i didn't realise that they all did it on the fly. Thought it was still videos haha.

sometimes the video scenes seem better quality then the game lol, so assumed was all pre-rendered videos

its no good the cart sizes are too small even if you compress your lessening the game and its hardly got any space in internal memory, i think the only reason publishers are porting over is cashing in on switch success

Its more to do with price than storage. The limitation of game cards can be bigger than Blu Ray.. they just cost alot more to produce.

I have enough storage that I can download everything?  I have a 250 gig card in there now and it isn’t even half full... Nintendo games aren’t that big...  PS4 and Xbox I use external hard drives.  However, in my experience, I doubt I will actually need the ability to go back and play by the time the service gets cut, if it ever does.   I have barely touched my ps3,360, or Wii U in the last few years and everything before that I actually boxed up and they are all just sitting in my closet.  

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/final_fantasy_x_x-2_hd_remaster_are_both_included_on_the_one_game_card_in_southeast_asia

For some reason they're both on the card in Asia only with no download required, whereas the US version has FFX on the cart and X2 is a download. To my knowledge this is the first use of a 32GB Switch Card.