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The reason for this is manifold. Optical disks are slower than hard drives or Nintendo Switch Game Cards, by a lot, while also containing much larger assets than Nintendo Switch Game Card. Installing it to a hard drive can allow for 100+MB/s reads, which many games outright require to funcfion, while others would take minutes to hours to load off disk directly. Xbox 360 games played off the disk, like Fable 3, would have load times just to go from gameplay to the pause menu. Forced installs fix that, and especially with modern consoles having fast SSDs and modern games requiring that speed, forced installs are the only way many games function at all.why make it so you can’t play games directly from the disc, saving you all that storage space??
With the next generation of Nintendo Switch, we could still be lucky, since the theoretical maximum speed of Game Card technology is 300MB/s, which after decompression could kiss 1000MB/s, enough to run any modern game. However, if they stick with 50MB/s peaks for next generation Game Cards, I would expect many games, though not all, to force an install.