New Nintendo Switch Hardware Model Codename Suggests Completely New Form Factor

[Pemalite]

JRPGfan said:
People dont seem that open to this concept.... I'll admit the biggest issue I have is the digital only part.
If it has a cartridge slot, and its super cheap... that would be the ideal switch for me.

Yeah needs cart support for me to consider a purchase.
My current Switch -never- gets taken out of the dock. The Joycons to me are terrible gaming input devices... Would be nice for a smaller, cheaper, convenient device that fits my gaming habits.

DonFerrari said:

Slownenberg said:

At this point I'd only buy a game physically if its file size was just huge so I can avoid having to eventually buy a second SD card beyond my 200gb one.

But yeah I feel like in a home system I wouldn't care about this. Because naturally I'm gonna have the games for the system like right near the system, and I'd rather not have go download games that take hours to download when I could just have them digitally. But for a portable like the Switch where I might be out with it and wanna Switch games or something, yeah I could totally just go all digital if a large amount of internal storage was given. Certainly having to uninstall games and re-download games would be an absolutely terrible experience so in a digital only system the internal storage would need to be decently sized. For Switch digital-only system I would expect at least 256gb internal storage, that way with a 256gb SD card added it'd be almost impossible to run out of space.

I run out of space with 4Tb on PS4 with over 100 games installed. I think Pemalite have over 12TB of game installed.

The Switch is also not as storage challenged, games are generally smaller... And if you buy Physical, not allot of data gets downloaded/installed to the console itself. I only just ran out of space on the 32GB internal memory after about a dozen physical titles.

I also have 20 Terabytes of space on the Xbox One X via external drives,  it's almost 70% full, so just over 14 Terabytes now of installed games.
My Xbox 360 has 2 Terabytes of Space and is 60% full.

Next-gen I will have a mechanical HDD for the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One X titles and use solid state for the Series X games, provided I don't opt for a Playstation 5 instead. Still on the fence... Really depends on how extensive the backwards compatibility is.