Switch 2 should have used PS5 strategy regarding physical media

[Otter]

Soundwave said:

Kyuu said:

As some already suggested, instead of GKC, Nintendo should have gone with cheap and slow cards that require installation into the internal storage (just like PS5's Bluray). Not playing directly from the card won't be as frowned upon as GKC, how can anyone disagree with this? It's literally how the PS4/5 work.

So they'd have two options:
1. Game Cards (expensive highspeed cards that don't require install).
2. Install Game Cards (cheap cards that require an install, but unlike GKC, they have the full game data in them).

At what point does that become just "performative" physical though?

At the point when the game doesn't work with just the cartridge. Currently almost all physical PS5/SeriesX games work with just the disc and no day one patch. This would be no different.