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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 27 October 2016

That seems kinda low tbh considering how it has been over 1TB compatibility for phones for some time now... Specially since Nvidia is making all the hardware. Should have been at a minimum of 200gb+ imo but oh well. I suppose since it is Nintendo, the size of the games won't be stupid.



                  

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Zkuq on 27 October 2016

It had better support at least that, because digital is the future (in both good and bad), and Nintendo too would do well to embrace digital distribution. Preferably it should support even more (assuming such memory cards are common enough).



Faelco on 27 October 2016
Zkuq said:

It had better support at least that, because digital is the future (in both good and bad), and Nintendo too would do well to embrace digital distribution. Preferably it should support even more (assuming such memory cards are common enough).

Nintendo is the weakest console maker about digital, and they don't even make progress about it :

 

It wouldn't be that surprising to see them being late for one more generation.



Zkuq on 27 October 2016
Faelco said:
Zkuq said:

It had better support at least that, because digital is the future (in both good and bad), and Nintendo too would do well to embrace digital distribution. Preferably it should support even more (assuming such memory cards are common enough).

Nintendo is the weakest console maker about digital, and they don't even make progress about it :

 

It wouldn't be that surprising to see them being late for one more generation.

Yeah, I follow him on Twitter and saw that tweet (among many others related to the subject). Digital distribution is huge, and it ought to be especially important to portable devices like Switch. Physical media is OK when you're at home, but when you're going somewhere, you just don't want to have to carry games as well with out.



Frogger on 27 October 2016

And with that, the dream dies.

And, for the record, the same person who reported this is reporting that the dock won't support external HDDs at all because it goes against the "portable" branding. Which is bull. An external HDD goes against portability, but lugging around 20 game cards everywhere you go because you have no digital space is the absolute pinnacle of convenience. /s

Digital is far more important on portable tech than it is on stationary tech.



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Platina on 27 October 2016

Hmm, as long as the internal storage is large enough, because 3rd party games + patches/dlcs are really massive D:



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JRPGfan on 27 October 2016
melbye said:
If NIntendo provides 3rd parties with some good compression-tools i don't think it will be a problem. It just seems to me that Sony and MS have been saying "compression, fuck it" on their systems

Theres a reason those 50 GB blu-rays can install games that end up 70-100 GB.... They have compression too.



Frogger on 27 October 2016

Pyro as Bill said:

Cartridges (SD cards in disguise) could be 512GB

Sure, if you like games that cost $300 each.



Frogger on 27 October 2016

Also, where did anyone read that the game cards were 64GB? Every report I've read has said that both the game cards and the internal memory were only 32GB. That 64GB number is, as far as I know, completely made up.



Conina on 27 October 2016

Why should there be a 128 GB limit? Micro SDXC supports up to 2 TB (theoretically) and 200 GB-cards are already getting real cheap.