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SvennoJ on 03 November 2016
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FunFan said:
JEMC said:

But SD cartridges and slots are mass produced, and therefore are cheap. What you describe would be made only for Nintendo, and that low production would make it a lot more expensive.

Don't get me wrong, it would be great if Nintendo or anyone else used something like that, but between not having actual need for them right now and the cost it would have, no one will go that route.

I guess evidence speaks louder than anything else.

Exibit No.1:

Biwin NGFF 60GB SATA III M.2 drive is only $25 bucks. (Link)

Thats customer price and rewritable memory. According to their site this baby has a read speed of 563 MB/s.

Exhibit No.2:

M.2 drives are used in tablets, the interface can't be that expensive to implement. Plus the Switch is a tablet.

Exhibit No.3:

Nintendo 64 didn't adhere to a Standar for it's cartridges and they were very high end for their time. 50 MB/s in 1996 if I'm not mistaken.

My point, your honor, is that the tech is there for implementing great things at realistic prices and Nintendo has history of using very "exotic "designs in their parts. I'm not claiming that they will do it, but simply point out that It Is a realistic option and is up to Nintendo to taka advantage of it(and would be nice if they do).

That would be great for internal memory, although that would lead to having to install the games again for best performance. That drive is quite big, miniaturizing it to sd card size and getting the costs down close to $1 per cartridge is not gonna happen for the launch of the switch.

Fact is 64GB U3 UHS-2 cards are still about $1 per GB consumer level. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA31U4676481&cm_re=UHS-II-_-9SIA31U4676481-_-Product at 150 MB/s while a 30 MB/s card is less than 40 cents/GB. How much is Nintendo willing to spend per cartridge.