Tales of Phantasia is notable in many ways, it was the first Famicom (SNES) game to use a 48 MB cartridge (a special new cartridge with larger Memory capacity) because Tales of Phantasia required a greater hardware capacity to run. (the-arcade.ie)
Pitcher filters also require you to buy new cartridges every few months, which can add up. (mindbodygreen.com)
However, instead of reselling old cartridges, they purchase the rights to games that sort of fell by the wayside and they build new cartridges with those games on them. (retrovolve.com)