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That fact is not in any way diminished or disturbed by current game sizes or zero-day patches/updates that developers are all too willing to ram down our throats nowadays.

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That the other parties show no interest in a Switch-like/portable product is completely beside the point and highly irrelevant to the discussion. And that population of hundreds of millions IS online, so you're failing to grasp that one as well. And an important part of that equation is the professional gaming media, which actually has quite a bit of influence on what the modern day gamer says, does or buys. cleveland124 If you're talking about cards, sure, but we're talking about flash memory chips, perhaps NAND flash chips, and we can't be sure on that until we get a teardown going after launch. NAND and other flash chip memory is much more expensive than SD flash memory. Even with manufacturing costs being low, they are typically sold higher corresponding to the higher memory size, especially when it's not removable. And the customer is a much happier one as well, for getting a more complete product, and not having to continuously invest in larger SD cards, almost every time they buy another third party game, which in turn might even persuade quite a lot of them to start buying more third party games, finally eradicating the whole "not enough third party games on a Nintendo platform" problem...The Nintendo Switch can only run up to 2TB of additional storage in an SD card. However, it should be noted that that's a ton of space, so you'll certainly have to be an eShop pro to fill it to the brim. Which SD cards are compatible with Nintendo Switch?

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That one seems as good as any of the more recognizable name brands, and it's cheaper than a lot of them! While it's true that the speed between even the UHS-1 cards does vary, the differences just aren't noticeable enough to worry about. That's why we've focused purely on the best value for money, as there is a considerably larger difference between the prices of two micro SD cards than there is the speed. What size/capacity Micro SD Card should I buy?

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I wouldn't count on Nintendo selling their consoles for a loss, either. Since when have they done that? Besides, Sony is a pretty good example of how to almost destroy your business empire by going too ham on the whole "selling at a loss" tactic... If a microSD card is inserted or removed while the console is powered on or while in sleep mode, you will be prompted to restart the console.

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I think if the Switch only came w/ 4GB like the 3DS, then by all means turn it off, 2GB of that would probably be OS anyway, leaving you w/ 2GB, and you'd find yourself in a horrific PS Vita situation, but I think 32GB is enough that I wouldn't want it to go to waste if I had an old 32GB card from my phone laying around that I could use until prices dropped on larger models. If the microSD card is not compatible with the console, replacing it with a compatible type may resolve the problem. Granted, if you ask me, I would not recommend getting anything above 128GB with UHS-I, 95 MB/s or less read speed. The reason is because as you have more data needing to be read at any given time, you force the card to work harder as more data needs to be pulled up. Thus, a 200 or 256 GB card with UHS-I will actually be slower than a 128 or 64 GB UHS-I card as that space is further filled. JaxonH Granted, that shpiel I went on mostly only applies if you go digital, or you're accessing hundreds of pictures/videos or music files like I do on the New 3DS. (Although a 3DS doesn't really benefit much from 95 MB/s instead of 40 MB/s or something...) And even then, it mostly only matters for large open world games. If you're reading off of the NS game card, the SD card type probably won't matter much at all. So if you're going mostly or all physical, getting the best value with the most memory should be the best way to go.Up to 100MB/s read speed; up to 90MB/s write speed. 64GB: Up to 100MB/s read speed; up to 60MB/s write speed. Based on internal testing; performance may be lower depending upon host device interface, usage conditions, and other factors. 1MB = 1,000,000 bytes. These 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 400GB, 512GB and 1TB officially licensed Nintendo Switch micro SD cards from SanDisk aren't the best value price-wise, but they sure do look pretty and will no doubt appeal to Nintendo collectors or those looking to gift an SD card to someone special. Until the NS releases, only Nintendo knows the read speeds of the NS game cards. We should have some comparisons to SD read speeds within a few months of release. I suspect both of them will blow those PS4 and XBone HDD read speeds out of the water. Also, I knwo those games are alrady out, if they weren't Iwouldn't knwo the size of the day 1 patches, but my point is almost every game these days has a day 1 patch. Nintnedo doesn't have to do it, but they are going to have to allow it if they want games on PS4 and XboxOne, it's not like the practice is going to stop. If anything I'd say it is measurably getting worse. Look what Nintendo did w/ Splatoon, dripfed content for months, all of it free and part of the main game, not DLC. NinNin Good to have that perspective of you being a developer, makes your point of view a little bit clearer, but to elaborate on it: I don't mean that developers should be forbidden to do things or told what to do (we'll leave that to the bigger publishers like EA) but more like both parties investing time AND some money in a better compromise, meet each other halfway, so to speak.

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And the facts you keep bringing up aren't really facts. Those comparisons are HIGHLY debatable and factually slanted. You can't compare them 1 to 1 because the market share of the Switch is much smaller. True enough that it got no AAA games, but even the launch games had modest size patches (AC3, AC3.5, Mass Effect, Batman, etc.) The 7-14+GB patches on Sony are like they're sending it uncompressed. How do you have a patch that's BIGGER than all of BotW? I swear they just update archive files and push the whole thing rather than just sending the delta. It's an absurd system, and I truly can't see that flying on a largely portable system where metered hotspot use will probably be highly used. Even with "unlimited" data they limit hotspotting to a few gig. A few gig for a patch, sure. 7-15GB? No. (EA habits aside, if your patch is larger than other similarly sized entire games, something is wrong with your release process.) Where it concerns Sandisk's Nintendo Switch-specific Micro SD card line, the potential profit (if any) they can make on that only a small percentage of every card sold (as in 5 to 10), and they only come in two flavors capacity-wise, AND they are more expensive than Sandisk's regular Micro SD cards in the same sizes, so guess which ones will sell better? Talk about niche...As a sales person, you should know that most companies are glad to make people pay for things at every opportunity if it helps to keep cash in the bank." Companies consider their profits in double digits, so a single figure profit (unless it's at least 9) is considered largely negligible. I've worked for plenty of large, Fortune 500 companies to know this for a fact. Hmm, I'll trust your opinion on this since it sounds like you're much more knowledgeable on the subject than I am. But even 3rd parties on WiiU, the patches never got that obscene in size. (Perhaps Dimensions notwithstanding.) BTW, I've been reading your posts waaaaaay too long as a lurker here. Twice today I actually typed "Nitneod""