I hate this. I want to forever own the game. Final Fantasy X/X-2 does the same thing, with X-2 being a download. It's not like I can count on Nintendo's servers being up forever, or at least there being a mirror site for downloading a game.

They did this with the the Spyro trilogy remake. The cart contains only the first game and you have to download the others. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying physical.

What I enjoy about collecting physical games is just the experience of owning the physical copy and popping the cartridge into the Switch when I play, so this doesn’t super bother me. But I totally get the preservationist argument for having all the games on the cart (or across separate ones) and would prefer that.

I wonder how Arkham Knight will even run on this thing, it’s such a massive performance hog.

Yeah, that's pretty typical for some of these Switch game collections. Asylum is the smallest so it gets to be on the game card (probably a 4GB one).

Still not as stupid as the Megaman Legacy Collection 1+2 physical release, where they only included the first collection on the card which weighed in at about 500mb~.

Publishers will penny pinch any way they can.

with starfield also essentially being digital only, we're gonna start seeing the last gasps of physical soon.