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?

Question

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

Worst case scenario, you could short the game cartridge and permanently damage its storage making it unusable.

More likely is minor data corruption which could potentially corrupt a save file or something.

Most likely is nothing at all.