SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide is out now on Nintendo Switch 2.
A clash between the Flying Dutchman and King Neptune has unleashed ghostly mayhem all over Bikini Bottom! Switch seamlessly between SpongeBob and Patrick and combine their unique skills to battle epic bosses. Save Bikini Bottom in the duo’s ghostliest adventure yet, fully voiced by the original show cast.
It’s probably just cheaper, the game key card must be super cheap with very small storage.
I’ve read about these developers defending gkc because of performance, yes. But as you say, why not copy the game from the cart? That’ll be faster than downloading it from the Internet, and you still have some version of it when Nintendo eventually shuts down the servers. All that bandwidth and all that data in datacenters is also expensive…