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curl-6 on 11 June 2021
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burninmylight said:
curl-6 said:

Of Switch's 4GB of RAM, 3.25GB is available for games, with 750MB reserved for the OS.

Personally I love how snappy and minimalist the Switch OS is, I much prefer it over Wii U's slow and bloated one.

I could have sworn that I read that the Switch OS is a fraction of that, but I'll definitely take your word over mine. Sounds more realistic anyway.

Well, Digital Foundry confirmed 3.25GB for games, I can't say for certain that all of the remaining 750MB is for the OS.

Wman1996 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Its actually a shame the Switch doesn't have more RAM. We would probably get better ports with sharper textures.

Perhaps these "impossible ports" were never really part of the plan for Nintendo.

The rumored Switch Pro will almost surely add more RAM.

But I couldn't see anyway Nintendo would've launched a hybrid platform in 2017 with more than 4 GB RAM. Nintendo hates selling hardware at a loss or merely breaking even. Loading the Switch with 6 GB or 8 GB of RAM would've been very costly to Nintendo. It would've been especially costly and difficult in a mobile device. 

The world's first smartphone with 8 GB RAM didn't even launch until 2017. Smartphones with 8 GB RAM are more affordable and common now, but they're still not the standard yet.

I don't know if there's a way to split RAM between the the tablet and dock. If there is, I suppose Nintendo could've put 4 GB RAM in the tablet and an extra 2 GB or even 4 GB in the dock.

The USB-C connection between the Switch unit and the dock isn't fast enough for this to work.