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by masklinn 297 days ago
While they’re flash rather than rom, the switch 2 still supports physical distribution media.
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True, but the way they work is more like discs than ROMs: their data isn’t immediately available but needs to be loaded into RAM.
True, but the low latency and constant-ish access patterns of flash makes a lot of its performance characteristics closer to ROM than CDs, even with the intermediate copy.
I was under wrong impression that it doesn't. They really muddied the water with those other "game-key cards".