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SuperNova on 14 February 2017
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Ljink96 said:
SuperNova said:

 

At the risk of repeating myself, but the manufacturer of both the 3DS ans Switch cartiges annouced (either in late 2015 or early 2016 can't remember now) that they had the manufacuring cost of 32GB carts down to the manufacturing cost of a BD.

This is probably why the 32GB carts are the maximum available size as of summer 2016. They are probably working on getting 64GB down in cost as we speak and it's not unreasonable to assume that they will become available to publishers at a BD pricepoint within the switches lifetime. Other than that, devs will just have to use compression. Many games these days are barely compressed and would probably fit on 32GB easily with clever compression work.

Well then, that would be cool. But those were 3DS cartridges, which price depreceated over time. Switch carts are an entirely new beast from 3DS cards. Doesn't that play a role in price? Of course if Nintendo buys in bulk, they can get some cheap prices. I hope that high compression is an option for developers, but something's telling me Nintenod's going to want us to use sd cards for bigger games. It's just the Nintendo thing to do at this point. Now that I think about it we'll most likely get more than 32gb cards later as 3DS didn't get 8gb cards until later after launch.

If it also means anything, wikipedia has Switch with a max 128GB card size : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_game_card 

So, I'm probably just putting too much on these documents at this point. 

As far as I'm aware the cart technology beween the 3ds and Switch carts is largelythe same. Switch carts will be higher capacity and read speeds as well as a die shrink but it's still the same technology. Also, there is no 32GB 3DS cart the maximum is 8GB currently, I belive, so between that and the die shrink they were clearly talking about Switch carts.

As for 128 GB, it's certainly possible, but I'm not sure what the price would be. Nintendo really gains nothing by making us buy SD cards for big games though. They are not proprietary like the Vitas so Nintendo has no profit in that. This is mainly about 3rd party ease of developement and game production cost wich Nintendo by all accounts is very aware of with the Switch.