It's all fun and games until you're dropping $96 ($100 post tax in a lot of places) for a copy of Madden or Star Wars Outlaws or Elden Ring, then reality will hit hard in a different way.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a 4 year old game that likely broke even and into profit years ago, they can subsidize a cartridge cost, a game like Star Wars Outlaws that cost $200-$300 million dollars to make almost definitely has not made back its development costs yet. They need that money to pay down the budget, they can't just be throwing away $16/copy for shits n' giggles. Same goes for brand new games that haven't turned a profit yet at all, you can't expect subsidization on games like that, those devs deserve to earn the same margin on that game as other platforms.
And even in the case where a developer has turned a profit on a game, you're not entitled to tell them that they have to take $16/less per copy so Neckbeard 10383 can have a collectible on their shelf. Games takes years and lots of money to make these days, if a developer wants to get the same profit margin on a Switch 2 version of a game as they do on other platforms, that's their prerogative. They don't owe it to anyone to take $16 less per game for some collecting fetish some person may have. They're selling games, the point is to play the fucking game, they're in the game business, not the collectibles and keepsakes business.
Game Key Cards are a fair and thoughtful solution to the problem, it allows retailers to still sell physical versions of games without them being priced ridiculously more than PS5/XSS versions of the same games, it allows 3rd parties to have the same profit margin on retail games as other platforms, it allows parents/grandparents to gift physical versions of games, it allows retailers to continue their business model, it even allows people to resell physical copies of games. It keeps prices of physical Switch 2 games comparable to PS5/XSS disc games and saves the consumer money in the end. I'm sorry but you're not getting any better of a solution than that.
