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Soundwave on 07 September 2016
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bonzobanana said:
Soundwave said:

You can get bulk 32GB cards for like $5, Nintendo probably could score them for far cheaper than that. 3DS is early 2000s technology, using that as a baseline of what's possible today is pointless. 

Not the same. The cards will be proprietory lower volume  ROM cards and not be mass market 32GB cards. New 3DS games are still coming out now.

They aren't going to release a tablet with 32GB memory that can't store a single downloadable game. The spec and screen resolution will seriously reduce code size compared to home consoles anyway.  So basically too expensive,  not required and doesn't work with the announced spec if true.

This is the same company that released the Wii U with 8GB and 32GB and the Wii with 512MB (lol). Nintendo don't give a fuck if you want to download big retail games you're going to need a large memory card. 

Nintendo's own games are small anyway, don't see that changing on NX regardless of what the format is. 32GB is nothing for 2017 and will only get cheaper as 2018, 19, etc. goes on but most Nintendo games will fit just fine on 4-16GB cards. 

Even as a propietary vendor (doesn't even have to be that propietary), Nintendo would be ordering in volumes of tens of millions at a time. The price is going to be cheap.