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bonzobanana on 21 March 2017
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bonzobanana said:

With the 32GB storage being on a daughter board its pretty clear Nintendo had designed the Switch with regard higher capacity models, so we may see 64GB and 128GB models too and they seem to have designed the system so internal storage outperforms third party SD cards so those wanting the best performance will go with these premium Switch models. 32GB models will probably represent entry level at some point and new colours and special editions with higher capacity storage the premium end.

DigitalFoundry testet Zelda BotW load times from internal storage, cartridge and two different microSDXC cards. Internal Flash won by 10%. Disappointing was that cartridges and 80MB/s microSDXC seem to be at the same speed level.

But their test had some flaw: a theoretical faster microSDX (rated 110MB/s or so) was even slower then the 80MB/s one. Someone has to test the fastest microSDXC cards on the market which provide around 200MB/s. Would be great if those make a difference.

Or Nintendo could release the specs and we know for sure what bandwidth the external storage can provide...

 

You could be right but it seems like the Switch transfer speed has reached its maximum with those cards that were tested. If I was Nintendo I would make sure internal storage is faster than third party because there is a lot of additional profit in providing new sku's with extra storage built-in. If a 128GB Switch can be sold for $379 that's better than someone buying $250 Switch and a 128GB micro SD card for Nintendo's profits. They are probably looking at how Apple charge for memory on their devices. They still allow SD cards though but they nobble them slightly. We may even find that a Switch with a built in 128GB of storage is much faster loading anyway than the current 32GB model so the loading speed advantage may go well beyond 10%.