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Why Star Wars Outlaws Is A Game-Key Card | Nintendo Life (www.nintendolife.com)
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They claim there's a technical reason instead of a financial one:

"Snowdrop relies heavily on disk streaming for its open world environments, and we found the Switch 2 cards simply didn’t give the performance we needed at the quality target we were going for. I don’t recall the cost of the cards ever entering the discussion - probably because it was moot.

"I think if we’d designed a game for Switch 2 from the ground up it might have been different. As it was, we’d build a game around the SSDs of the initial target platforms, and then the Switch 2 came along a while later. In this case I think our leadership made the right call."

No explanation was given as to why they didn't forgo the key card altogether and just release to the eshop only.

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No explanation was given as to why they didn’t forgo the key card altogether and just release to the eshop only.

TBH compared to digital-only, having a GKC is still a preferrable option, as it can be sold when you're done with the game.

I think a better option for cases like this would be a cartridge that contains the compressed game data which can be installed to the local storage, as is the case with the other consoles' disks. But presumably the Switch 2's OS doesn't even have that capability right now.