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They could just use a flash drive to distribute the game. Copy the game to the local drive...and wait, that's how PC gaming works.
The appeal of CDs, or game cartridges, was the ability to load a game and immediately start playing (well after the loading screen as everything loaded into ram) and you could play the game on other consoles (bring game to friend or resell it). To recreate that, most games would have to be shipped on a 256gb ssd so the game can just load from that on any computer. I have a feeling that's not the best business strategy right now
Flash has a limited data retention time. With high capacity QLC flash, that time can be very short.
Yeah, flash certainly wouldn't work for actually running the game, but it would work great for a 1 time distribution/transfer method to the game to a pic/console's drive.
The main reason for wanting a physical copy is so you can sell it when you are done with it. If the data degrades after a couple of years, it doesn't do much good. A pressed disc will last for decades when taken care of.