It's so interesting to see how things keep getting more and more dense with data as time goes on. When I was in elementary school we would use 3 1/2 floppy drives to store our computer work on. The computer lab would sell them to us for a dollar a piece. Or maybe it was 50 cents, I'm not sure. At 1.44 MB, they got the job done. I don't currently have a working machine that reads those things anymore, but I do have some lying around somewhere, I'm sure.

It's just really strange to see these things out-pacing disk-based media now.

Will be awesome once the price drops.  SanDisk's 400 GB micro SD card is currenty $77 on Amazon, which is more than good enough until that happens.

Who needs bigger internal storage when you can simply buy a good chunk for only 50% more than the console itself costs. This is a bargain!

Look forward to getting that when its like $20-30.

I just bought 128GB SD cards for $20 each.

😲

Where were you when I needed you!

Mummelmann said: Who needs bigger internal storage when you can simply buy a good chunk for only 50% more than the console itself costs. This is a bargain!

Well tbh, i'd rather pay an extra $10 to ensure the game cart was big enough to hold the full game and have enough space for patches and the save file.

In the end no matter how much internal or external memory you add, it will run out. If that memory is also tied to that console, then you are screwed when it dies.

Hell they don't even need to make it the standard release, but an option for those willing to pay more. No different to PS4 v PS4 Pro. Choice is good.

You are talking about something which weighs about 1KG in comparison to something which weighs half a gram.

Yeah, the price has to come down. It is in line with what the 400GB cost at launch (250$ I think), but the price of that card has since come down to around 70$, in about the span of a year.

So right now the value proposition for the 1TB card is that you could buy 3 400GB cards have 1,2TB of storage and still pay less than for the single 1TB card.

Heck, even the 512GB they'll be introducing at the same time is 'only' 200$, so you get virtually nothing from moving up to higher storage capacity it gets more expensive per GB instead of cheaper, like it should.

I'm suspecting they don't want people to go for the 1TB just yet and sell the 512GB instead. Maybe yields are still low or something, so they made it a bad value proposition.

Personally I'm hoping the 400GB goes down in price. I've got a 128GB for my Switch, which was reduced to £30 a year ago in a sale, but which can easily be bought around the £20 mark today. I've gone through it quicker than planned and have used about half of it - given Switch is my default system and the number of games and expansions I buy, 400GB seems more in the ballpark of what I'll need in the long-run.

It´s too expensive for now, but its cost will go down eventually.
So far, I´m doing fine with a 128 Gb for my Switch.