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When the physical games require downloading to start using them, I think that starts crossing lines into bricking territory even if it's not entirely accurate.
They can't get game updates, but they'll function as their base versions. If it had no way to play ANY games, that would qualify as a brick, even if you could turn it on and navigate menus. But it still has a limited ability to play some games, so not a brick, just a severely crippled console.
Any of the games that aren't fully on the cart, require a download to even function in the first place.
It's looking like (TBD) that this is how a very large portion of the games are going to be delivered.
That's correct, a large portion of the games available will be unable to be obtained on a banned console (though previously downloaded games will still work). But some still will be, including, crucially, every first-party game, which is what people regularly say they bought a Switch 2 for. So it's not a brick.