Talking Point: What's That One Switch Game You Can't Bring Yourself To Delete?

Smash I guess. Just wouldn’t ever think of deleting it since they’re still releasing characters.

I mainly buy games physical when it's an option and have a big enough SD card, so it never even occured to me that this might be a problem for other people.

I haven't ran into that problem yet. I deleted demos once I was done with them, but no bought game yet.

Rocket League, Smash and Animal Crossing are the ones I won’t archive.

I'm going to start buying games on physical, Bc I going to run out of space, But that one game I can't delete, it has to be Mario Od.

But back to Physical games, I really need to start buying them this way, but sure doesn't help when they give out little traps to get you to buy, "Buy it digital to get it 3 days early" or " Pre purchase, so you can pay up front, and not later" when I want to preorder something, most of the time I need to pay later, and its annoying, But i'm going to have to get out of that.

if sega doesn't put sonic colors on the eshop for pre purchase, then maybe I will actually get it physical.

for the most part tho no space issue, I know what to delete bc I 100%ed it already. makes it pretty easy.

I've got a 400 GB sd card so this isn't really a problem for me at the moment. The only ones I delete are the ones that I REALLY have no intention of returning to or the ones that I ended up really disliking. So far the only ones that I've actually deleted (at least the ones I remember) were smash and pokemon sword.

Mario Kart and Smash definitely lol

My Switch has an auto-archive feature turned on, if I'm not mistaken.

I bought a big SD card expecting it to solve my problems...nope. Dark Souls is usually the guilty pleasure, really barebones and arguably bad port. But it's always a good time.

I'm a hoarder, I have all my games downloaded at all times.

I got a huge SD card for my switch at launch just to become a physical game collector a few months after and deciding to barely buy games that aren’t used, cheap, on sale or at a point were they are only rising in value, so I never had this issue.

However I can never get myself to delete some MMO’s on my switch despite never touching them, just as a last resort.

I have a 400gb card and considering most Switch games are rather small in size compared to other plattfroms I don't really have this problem

Stardew Valley. I haven't played it in so long, i never even uploaded the last two updates. But, i completed the three year campaign, enjoyed over 100 hours, and, hey, i am married! I doubt i will go back, but i also doubt that I will delete it.

Interesting article!

Heavo Ho I already beat but it's such a fun little game

I have a 1TB card, still have 300GB. Have only deleted some of the free games that were available at Christmas

I almost exclusively buy physical, the only downloaded game I have is A Short Hike. And the Monster Hunter Rise demo too, but that’s only because my physical copy is stuck in the mail.

Half of my Switch games are multiplayer games, like party games. I would always bring my Switch to gatherings. I haven't been to a party in over a year now, but I can't bring myself to delete them

Run out of space? Get more storage. I only delete demos or software that otherwise no longer works.

I am trying to beat some backlog games before Monster Hunter Stories 2 comes out. My sd card is full to the brim and can't fit anything else. I could just go and get a bigger card, but that feels like avoiding the issue

pokémon sword and mh rise

I’m terrified of that distant future day when I want to play a game I’d removed due to space, but can’t because the eshop is history and digital games are intangible

I keep all of my games, my switch hasn’t been full yet
But if they release twilight princess on switch that game will stay first row forever

Breath of the Wild, Age of Calamity, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. I've spent the most time (other than a borrowed copy of Splatoon 2) on these three games.

My SD card has limited space, so I just archive the games I'm done with, and know I won't come back to. I might get a bigger card later, and install every digital game that I archived though.

Most of the big games I purchased in physical format. And when I felt I was done with them, I sold or traded them in to fund other games. New Horizons, New Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Shield I downloaded. And while I haven’t played Pokémon Shield in months, I can’t bring myself to delete only because I will eventually get back to it to do more Dynamax legendary searches.

There are other games I’ve mentally moved on from, because they didn’t click with me, that I had no problem deleting. That includes Okami and Hollow Knight. Well made games. But ultimately, they just didn’t enthrall me and I gave them significant amounts of time

Games like Cuphead, Dragon’s Dogma, Undertale, Celeste, Tales of Vesperia and a host of others remain on my SD card, forever on my list of games I’ll eventually start or get back to

Then I have games that are more casual in nature and I play more often and justify remaining in storage. Mortal Kombat 11, Wheel of Fortune, Sonic Mania, Burnout Paradise and Among Us to name a few.

Currently, I have a 256 GB card in and 69 GB in space remaining. So I think I’ve been pretty good in keeping my storage manageable and in check

2k20 because that takes a whole day to redownload. but for a game that i actually have a choice i would choose 3d all stars.

I know someone on NL that has a 1TB card and ran out of space.

I've kept all the Splatoon demos, which are unplayable.

Now that I finally got to play Bioshock, I got the trilogy, only to find the first game is too psycho/murderous for me to have fun with. I didn't know it would be so dark and have such shrill screaming. Deleted 1, but 2 & 3 still sit unplayed.

I have 127+gb free space on my 400gb card. I'm not a backlog builder. I mainly buy when I'm ready to start a new game.

I'm mostly physical, so I don't have to make space on my SD all that often. But yes, there are a few that I just won't delete.

Fast RMX was the first Switch game I bought on the eShop and until we get an F-Zero there's really nothing else like it on the Switch, so it stays.

Stardew Valley, for sure. Who knows when I might want to quit it all and go rebuild a farm in a village full of highly dysfunctional small town characters?

Steredenn, Slay the Spire and R-Type Generations EX are all perennial comfort games. They stay no matter what.

Letter Quest (don't laugh, I'm serious) is a game that works for me when nothing else will fit. And, being Of A Certain Age, I live in mortal fear that one day I will forget how to spell things. No one ever wants to play Scrabble with me, so when that feeling haunts me I fire up Letter Quest for a ten-minute session that usually turns into an hour. Never deleting.

And for some reason, Battle Chef Brigade just has that status. I haven't played it in over a year - but SOMEDAY I might!

Smash is the game I won't delete because I still play from time to time with friends. I also like the keep the rhythm games in, Deemo, VOEZ, Cytus, cause I like to rhythm occasionally. I kept for a long time Diablo 3 but I deleted it in the end after playing with every characters ^^

Mario Maker 2 is untouchable, the rest kind of come and go every now and then.

Super Mario Bros. 35 😂

I have a ton of games downloaded that I haven't touched in a while but I want to have the comfort of having them ready to play whenever I have the urge to play them

Hollow Knight- every so often I feel the urge to binge play it until I beat it for the dozenth time

Magician Lord. Something about it. It’s pretty. Also I only have probably 12-13 games on the system, so I wouldn’t have to delete it, anyway! But if I were in your shoes, that would be the one! Maybe it’s because there’s a ninja in it

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Where's the opinion for "I only buy physical copies so aside from the odd small patch I have no space issues'

@gaga64 that's why the only digital games I have are ones I bought are from points that I got from registering the carts.

This article is a call out for me lol

Have to wait til I upgrade to a 1tb sd card before I decide keep or remove. If I get the same Physical game that was eShop-I know which one will go.

I have two 400gb micro as cards and I’m waiting for the 1tb to dive under 100€ I keep my games downloaded so they’re always ready to go whenever I really want to play something

I have over 170+ games and I love hopping between them (switching ). I swap SD cards every few months, but I wouldn’t swap an sd card to play a specific game. If I had physical games I would be stuck with just the one 😅

Enter the Gungeon. Over 500 hundred hours so far and I still love it.

Breath Of The Wild, Skyrim and Civ6)

I have zero problem archiving any game. It takes what, an hour at most to redownload?

I don't think I've deleted one game yet. If I need more memory, I just get another SD card.

Xenoblade 1 and 2. Always a joy to come back to

Katamari Damacy. I bought the physical version, but dammit, I grabbed the digital on sale and now it's a permanent resident in my Switch.

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania I'm sure is going to go the same way

(And both those games living in my Switch makes me a happy gamer ^^)

I have no need to delete them with my SD card. But there have been one or two I was very sure I wouldn't want to revisit because I just didn't enjoy them. So they're gone.

See, for me it's not even the individual games, but the sequence of them in the menu that I can't mess with. I'll look farther down the list at a series of fifteen+ games and think something like "Ah, that was a fun run last summer" and I can't bring myself to even play some of the games for fear of breaking up the set 😂

I keep as many as I can downloaded on my 1 TB card 🤣 I never consider deleting my 'evergreen' games like Animal Crossing, Pokémon Sword, Splatoon or Smash.

Deleting games that you've paid for is a thing? That's ridiculous. I buy physical whenever possible, so it's a moot point, and there are things called SD cards. Weird article.

Team physical here, most of my games are physical collections, only few are soft copies indies and other games that need a large download files. However, I have a one terabyte micro SD card to boot. So I don't think I will be having any issues with this.

51 Worldwide Games, no matter how much space I need to free up, I'm always down for some 6-Ball Puzzle

I don’t have the money to run out of space for games

@CheekyZelda I feel you on that one! I have a friend on Steam who has over 8,000 games he has purchased. No idea what he does with them, but I wish I had that sort of income so I could buy a house!

I use 4 SD cards. I just move games to a different SD if i need space.
On top of it i have full backup of everything.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It is still the only game I play daily, and I have never felt right deleting the newest Animal Crossing game from whatever console it releases on... and right now that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. I know a lot of people right now have stopped playing it as much, but I have only taken a weeklong break once, and that was back in early August of last year. After I returned from that break I continued to play the game daily. Animal Crossing is, and probably always will be, my favourite game series.

Splatoon 2, Smash Ultimate, and Hades will be permanently on my Switch.
The most embarrassing mainstay was ‘1-2 Switch’ thinking it would be fun to show people the system... oh well!

Legrand Legacy!

I only have two 64 MB cards, but I buy all games in physical form if available. My memory card for "normal games" still has a lot of open space. The second card is specifically for FMV games. That one is full, but some of them I've played through several times and I think I can finally put to rest.

High capacity SD cards are absurdly cheap, not sure what we have in ours, maybe 200Gb, but despite being predominantly digital, space hasn't been an issue.

But if it came to it, BotW and Animal Crossing would never be deleted.

Alien Isolation. I want it on a Physical cart so bad. But yeah, even tho it's one of my all-time faves I dont delete it just on principal.

My all time fav that I’d always keep is « The Secret Under her Skirt »

Hollow Knight. I accept I can never beat Nightmare Grimm and that save is a mausoleum to my failure.

Breath of the wild, I've 100% completed the game in both regular and master mode, but I could never bring myself to delete it.

Slay the Spire. Just like the protagonists, my fate has already been sealed. No escape from the Spire, ever.

Does anyone else find it strange that the entire article and survey at the end are written as if physical games don't exist? There are people that frequent this site that only buy physical games, I'm one of them.

I don't think I've fully absorbed how modern-day game consoles work. I remember getting a machine and getting a disc (or cartridge, whatever) and putting the disc into the machine and then I could play a game. The most advanced I got was the GameCube, when it added a second layer of putting a memory card in the machine (and making sure it was the right memory card to match the game). Even when I had the Wii or the Wii U, all I ever had to do was put the disc in the machine and I could play the game.

I'm doing so danged much adult busy life stuff that I don't have time to learn how the Switch works with its fancy newfangled "data management." Why some physical games need to have a save space on the console, why I can't put my disc/cartridge into any old Switch and play my game, why does console save space matter if my game is on the cartridge, why I have to archive software or blah blah blah.

I'm old and tired and just want to play my games, dagnabbit! Luckily, I think I play too few games to hit any data limits or whatever it is we're talking about. Yet, anyway...

I’m not deleting something on which I spent a substantial amount.

The 6 Picross games from Jupiter. They are small and I go back to them for a quick pick up and play almost daily.

Got a lot of games where I've completed the main game but not done all the side quests etc, left them on my switch to complete fully only to never go on them again

X-COM 2 takes up so much space and I have played it exactly none times, because I never seem to be in the mood for extraterrestrial tactical combat. But that day WILL come, and when it does, I don't want to have to wait an hour or two while it redownloads.

Smash & Mario Kart are my two digitally downloaded games that shall forever be on my switch. Easier to switch between games when friends are over. The one game I downloaded THINKING id play forever yet don’t - Animal Crossing. I burnt out way to fast and archived it. Oh well. Everything else is physical or archived when not in rotation

Hollow Knight and Cuphead for sure. Probably others as well.

For me I believe it's Cuphead. If I didn't have them physically, I also wouldn't delete Sonic Mania, Paper Mario: The Origami King and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, maybe Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, too.

Somewhat off-topic: Whenever I insert an SD Card on the Switch while the system is off, it turns itself on and tells me it needs to be restarted to use the SD Card.
Is that an actual issue or it just happens to me?

It sounds minor, but it has been a pet peeve of mine for a while.

We got a fat juicy SD card for the Switch so it’s really not a problem for me. We definitely keep anything that’s bound to do well at parties (Smash, Mario Kart, Mario Party), but otherwise it’s pretty much just Animal Crossing; anything that’s more “finite” usually gets the boot once the bulk of the game has been cleared.

I don't understand people who delete games that they own. The overwhelming majority of my library is physical, however, and the thought of deleting any game that I have paid money for, even if it's unlikely that I will play it again, is asinine. I paid for it, and it stays, even if it's garbage. Maybe someone else will come along some day and want to play it. If I had an all digital library, however, I'd probably just buy another microSD card, but more likely is that I would just spring for a larger card instead.

The only games I have deleted, though, were the heap of free Qubic games, which I never had any intention of playing anyway (though I may have dabbled with a couple), and downloaded them solely because they were free, but I am now past the point of buying dirt-cheap games merely because they're dirt-cheap. Free time is finite, and I'd rather spend it on the plethora of infinitely superior games in my collection. Plus, I didn't want their icons uglying up my library.

There was also a game that was only 0.01c in the Australian eShop (it's probably still there), and I figured that I had nothing to lose as I get 1 gold coin anyway, effectively rendering the game free (?!!?!?!?), but I played it for a few minutes and deleted it as it didn't seem the sort of thing that would interest me, even though it didn't look like the worst of games.

Other than that, no, my downloads stay on the microSD card.

Most of my Switch games are physical and my main Switch has a 1tb micro sd card so I don't have to delete anything. My spare Switches all have 400gb micro sd cards in them which are running out of space but not quite yet. I hate having to delete games with limited storage space in any of my consoles so I usually upgrade the storage asap. Eventually when the prices go down I'll upgrade all my Switch systems with 1tb micro sd cards, but for now I'm fine. My PS5 needs a storage upgrade first.

I don't download many games and I have a large SD card so not an issue.
But if you extend the question to physical games and instead of delete, ask, trade or sell.

I will sell most of my physical games while they still retain some value. Next to go is Smash Bros.

I hate deleting games so much I bought a 1tb micro sd card. Hopefully, it will last me until the end of the switch's life cycle.

I have a 512GB SD card, which sounds like plenty, but I have something like 1,500 digital games (and that’s just my EU account), so space for new stuff is a constant issue. I never delete my fist-party games or my favourite indies. You know, the Cuphead’s, Ori’s and Hollow Knight’s of this world. Other than that, I’m afraid to say that nothing’s safe from the chop.

My favourite Switch exclusive is a collection of ports, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, because it has my favourite Mario 3D game, Super Mario Sunshine, and I beat it 100%, again. I also like Super Mario 64 but now I'm more convinced than ever that Super Mario Sunshine is better. Super Mario Odyssey is bland and incoherent, in my opinion. Next, I'll try Super Mario Galaxy without motion controls for the first time. Motion controls is what ruined this game and its sequel on Wii.

This one is a little foreign to me. But I would never delete either of the Steamworld Dig games. Both are games I go back to constantly

i keep all of them

only delete the demo's

It's definitely about me, except for "the feeling of letting go" part - in fact, if you experience the latter, can't the very archive option mitigate it as opposed to "cleanly" deleting the game? You get the icon to look at like some kind of photo, waiting for a new encounter or reliving the memories...😄 The reasons I routinely run out of space even on my 512 Gb card are much more prosaic - bigger games, even after finally acquiring an unlimited mobile data plan I can tether, simply remain more tedious to swap in for someone gaming appetites translate to massive backlogs and entire batches on rotation in and out of focus among them.

If it's at least a relatively linear game north of 10 Gb, I can try to put extra focus on it in an attempt to make room (and even then, titles like Resident Evil have birdflipped my plans in that regard before😅). But if it's an RPG? As I often confess, I'm still in Xenoblade 2's early chapter 8 after 188+ hours, still with one or two unmapped regions on BotW map after 120+ hours, still barely traveling much outside Whiterun hold after a similar chunk of time... and while my Xenoblade DE playthrough has been faster than on 3DS, I'm only about to set foot on Valak Mountain (assuming I don't get sidetracked yet again) after 70 hours or something. So when I excitedly load another mammoth from a top fave genre of mine, be it Dragon's Dogma or Final Fantasy XII or The Outer Worlds or Immortals... there's no telling how much time I'll spend grinding and exploring and sidequesting it before reaching any horizon line of finishing the main campaign, but what I know is the reluctance to making room for and redownloading all of its data yet again even if I happen to tune away for a while. There are some time sinkers of the size tier that I do avoid properly starting (or even trying) for that reason as well, like One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 (resisted thanks to already being quagmired in a likewise bulky FEW) or God Eater 3 (which is preceded by two games' worth of backlog, and Lord knows when I'll be through with those either - you know how monhuns get😆), but often it's the more irresistible ones that elbow their way on board against my better backlog judgement and hog the most room. Not to mention endless stuff like Civilization 6... oh wait, I ironically deleted it one day, if mostly because I WANT to redownload it sometime later - the recently bought expansions hit the storage problem by themselves and, by a Switch habit I have mixed feelings toward, nonchalantly perched their bacon in internal memory instead. And it just kinda rubs me against the fur to see one game oddly installed on two storage "drives" at once.😅

So in the end, it tend to be the not necessarily less exciting but pragmatically smaller titles (up to 4-6 Gb) that I can return to the line of duty faster and thus more whimsically. That's why I can temporarily part with diamonds like Disgaea, Ni no Kuni or The Missing these days. But the smallest downloads ironically weather just as many storage management puzzles as the biggest ones even if I've actually made and been expecting little to no progress therein - like, I've been incurably stuck on that one damn level of Alteric for YEARS (as I said in another such post, I suck at games like this even though I still enjoy them), but said Alteric's 100 Mb or so rarely become a dealbreaker obstacle in the path of a new Switch library recruit.😆

TL;DR (no kidding, even the comment system thought it too long?): I'm different from but ultimately weirder than Kate when it comes to this stuff.

Got a 1TB SD Card during a sale and even after downloading everything in my library, I still have over 50% of free space left. Safe to say that I probably won't ever fill it up. The pandemic did see a big spike in my digital purchases, though.

I only delete games that I don't like, which happens almost never because:
1. I am highly selective of what I purchase
2. I hardly find games I despise. Some are better than others of course, but almost all manage to bring something new to the table. Therefore, something worth playing through.

pretty much any single player game besides pokemon due to the frequent gifts

@The_Pixel_King Yeah just waiting on that update. Looking at the bright side of things, it makes me want to finish some PS5 games that I probably wouldn't play as soon, just to transfer the game to my external hard drive and make room for newer PS5 games lol. My 5tb external hard drive is almost full though with PS4 games and the PS5 games I have finished, so I'll need to upgrade that soon also...

I have a 1TB SDCard in my Switch, and have all of my games on there. Physical and Digital game files/saves. Over 330+ games, total, combined. With room to add more. So, I'm good to go. Don't need to get rid of anything to make room for other things. So, that's good.

I will never delete Stardew Valley.

@Pak-Man I totally forgot about it, but X-COM 2 is also a permanent resident with me for the exact same reason. I've only played a few hours of it, but one day its time will come.

I have a 128G SD card. Wish it was 256G.

For a while I had two SD cards, big freakin hassle. Eventually got a biggie and now everything is in one place:)

I never delete a game, I just bought a bigger cart!
Having Dragon's Dogma and Resident Evil 4 on the go is glorious.
hell the whole switch lite is glorious!

The one game I can't delete is Clock Simulator, Already have 10 hours on it

343gb left on my 1tb micro sd i have a different problem, i buy too many games

I'm mostly physical, and I have a huge SD card, so I haven't had this problem in a while.

Buying physical is always my first choice, so my 256gb card is holding up fine for now. I’ve deleted a few demos over the years, but that’s about it.

If my card fills up I’ll spring for a bigger one.

As someone with two 400GB SD cards, this isn't an issue for me.

I don't like deleting games, but I have when I ran out of space. I have a 512GB card now, but it's already almost full. I'd like to get a 1TB card, but they're still a little bit too expensive.

I will never delete any Zelda game (my favorite series) or Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which I still play daily, though. No matter how much space I need. I'll also keep puzzle games like the Picross S games which I go back to often.

I bought a faulty SD card from target, didn't return if so at this point I don't care what is and isn't on my switch.

I definitely haven't purchased a NEW switch game in a long time 🤣

Massive SD card here (as of late last year), but also I tried to purge my list a couple times, so I know the sting of letting go of the past, but also the freedom it brings.

(But... still wanted to keep some massive games available, along with some of the first demos I got in 2017/18, so... new card. Plus basically every game I own I keep downloaded... was mostly talking about demos and other trash... I’m too tired to edit, this is all pointless. I’m sorry, good night. I liked this article, definitely relates to the reasons given as to why we do this.)

@Snatcher "I'm going to start buying games on physical, Bc I going to run out of space...But back to Physical games, I really need to start buying them this way"

When I got my Switch I did research, concluded I would only need a 128MB card. Filled it, got a 512MB card. Filled it, imported a 1TB card. Eventually I'll get a 2TB...once they start making them!

To save room on my SD card, I try to get physical copies instead of digital, especially if it's a big file size, but only if the price is comparable to digital. But sometimes, the digital sales are just too good to pass up.

I have a lot that I keep on because I have a decent amount of storage. I generally archive if that runs low. I only delete games if I really don't like them or if there's content I don't agree with that catches me off guard.

@MontyCircus Thats just all the time for me, the digital sales get me every time LOL.

I don't have too many downloaded games, but the first one that comes to mind for me is Songbringer. That was one of the first indie titles on Nintendo Switch that I really loved, and the memories of it make it hard to want to delete it. So I probably never will. That game, and Super Mario Party. So many good memories coupled with a few bad ones that I keep the game on the system as a reminder of those good and bad times.

Do I need to point out that you'd have to separately delete the save data ....? Otherwise, that'll still be there if you redownload a game, so you wouldn't have to start over, anyway

No need to delete anything with my 512gb SD card, and I tend to buy most first party games physical anyway.

My SD card is getting full, how much of a hassle is it to transfer card data to an even bigger card?

If I'm close to full I just buy a larger microSD card. The best thing about this approach is that every time I do this I'm basically 2x my storage so it's longer before the next upgrade. And by then the price of microSD cards have fallen. I went from a spare 32GB card to 64GB, 128GB and am now on 256GB. The cards I "retire" I've just put in phones/dashcams etc.

@Joriss
If you have a PC you can just copy the files across. MicroSD card readers are pretty cheap if you don't have one

I tend to buy physical copies of games and because of this I am not hurting for SD card space despite only having a 128gb one. Updates of every game I own and a few small indie titles have only dropped me down to 105gb left since I bought the system in 2017. But the one game I haven't been able to move on from since it launched is Mario Maker 2. I always find myself gravitating back to it eventually.

Deleting it would be pointless given it's updates only take up a few hundred megabytes. But that is due to the superior nature of an all physical collection. flex

With a 400GB SD card and a preference for classics and indie games, I'm not about to run out of space any time soon. ^_^;

I did buy the card becuase I foresaw dilemmas like this, however. I'm terrible with having to delete and redownload games. I haven't got much of a physical collection for Swtich, but hat's partly because most of the perks of cartridges have disappeared, and partly because many of the indie titles I want to play don't yet have physical releases.

I’ve got a 400GB sdcard and it’s not enough. Sofar I only delete massive games I won’t play anymore.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
same
xD

@SigmaNoire Yep, me too. I just buy more or bigger sd cards.

Mega Man 11 & Alliance Alive.

Trouble Days!

I got a 1TB micro sd card as a present about a year ago. I am therefore "good" on this issue+

When I buy something I don't throw it away anytime soon.

Talking Point: What's That One Nintendo Life Article You Just Want To Delete So Badly?

I just get a bigger SD card if it's come to the point where this would even be a problem.

DQ Builders 2, easily. I've dumped 200+ hours into it.

We have a bunch of games like that. We don't have a lot of games, so space is not an issue.

But, just the other day, my youngest picked up the Switch and started playing Kirby Star Allies. We hadn't played it in a year or so. We stopped at a particularly hard boss battle. But I guess we (her) got way better. (Her because my job in the boss battles is just not to die. LOL.) And we beat the boss. And then we looked at each other and said, "That seemed way harder than all the other boss battles. You don't think we finished the game, do you?" And just as we were saying that, the end credits started scrolling up. LOL.

So now, we'll just leave it on the system. Probably not play it much. But every now-and-then we'll go back in and find all the stuff we missed. We did that for Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii), Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U), and Super Mario 3D World (Wii U). It may take us years to finish a game, but we seem to get there. LOL.

I guess the next up is going to be finishing Yoshi's Crafted World!

woe is me the game reviewer that gets paid to download all the games and has storage problems... and you want us to relate to that?
I keep all the games I pay for. Keep only the free to play that I have made good progress in. If I need more space I just get a bigger SD card.
And I mostly buy physical if reasonable

ACA Neogeo Metal Slug, I don't play it much but it was my one of my friend's favorites before he passed away a few years ago.

What I will remove depends on the how big of a sd capacity I can afford and use. I just got a 1tb from Amazon Prime deal so now I am trying to get everything I can on it but my collection might outstrip it. Missed playing some of those games because 400gb wasn't enough and especially if you get DLC or Big updates.

@ChakraStomps And I mostly buy physical if reasonable
I do this to save on internal storage for other then saves. Only time if that is the only eShop but even then I found out later on they finally came to Physical and I wasted the money and space for that when if I waited I could've saved more space. And if I don't play a game I just leave sealed and stored until another day.