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The_Yoda on 18 September 2017
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Aeolus451 said:
flashfire926 said:

What do you mean "no space in the device"?

Micro SD fit ridiculous amounts of gigabytes, now approaching 512 gb, and you say the Switch flash storage can't be 64gb because of "no space"? And there is no way it adds more than $50 to the cost. Heck, by next year they can phase out 32 gb and sell 64 gb for $300. 

And unlike us, Nintendo mass buys the flash storage, so they get it at a much lower cost than us. Same goes for many other electronics companies.

All I was saying that 32 gb of storage wasn't enough hd space for playing even 7th gen 3rd party games without needing to buy a micro SD card to even play a game and that nintendo needs to offer SKUs with better storage then some of them started to get defensive over common sense saying they don't better SKUs.

I can totally see your point that 32GB may not be enough for even one game.  I would very much support you and be dissatisfied as well if Nintendo went proprietary on their expanded memory (see PS2, Vita, Gamecube, ect).  I personally think that offering up memory expansion via a very common format gives the consumer the most options available.  You can expand however you want or not at all. 

This is more important in this stage of the game since the one and only SKU is already supply constrained.  I'd be pissed at Nintendo if I were the average consumer that bought almost all my games physically and bought very little digitally but i had to pay $50 more for something I felt I didn't need (more internal storage) because that was the only SKU sitting on the store shelf. Coming off the WiiU (which I also felt handled storage just fine) I'd try to keep my MSRP as low as possible too i.e let the consumer decide if they need more storage.

 

edit: I'll even go one further I would likely suspect Nintendo intentionally kept the supply low on the base model so they could sell the more expensive SKU if I had to pay more for something I felt i didn't need. I know it may be hard for some to imagine, people accusing Nintendo of using scarcity to their advantage, but it does sometimes happen.  Imagine some of the outrage if the cost was on par with Apple and they charged $100 more for 64GB vs 32GB or $150-$200 more for 128 GB and the 128GB model was the only one that was normally on a retailer's shelf.