When you pull out the cartridge from a switch you get a message saying: „always close the software before removing the game card.“ why though? What’s the worst that could happen?

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When you pull out the cartridge from a switch you get a message saying: „always close the software before removing the game card.“ why though? What’s the worst that could happen?

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Answer 1

In QA testing one of the tests is often to do memory card/disc/cart pulls to test that nothing too bad happens. If first party submission can corrupt a save this way you have to talk to them and fix it or get it waived