Predict the price for Switch 2

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Soundwave said:

RolStoppable said:

Your post is stupid. The massmarket isn't oblivious to the ever-dropping prices of SD cards. By the time Switch 2 is out, it should be very common to find 512 GB SD cards going for $50 and under. Heck, 1 TB micro SD cards cost only around $100 today.

If someone is digital-only and in need of more storage and has the choice between your hypothetical 256 GB Switch 2 for $450 or your hypothetical 64 GB Switch 2 with a 1 TB SD card for $500 combined... it's not hard to do the math here.

It's funny how you always jump on whatever the latest rumor is and come up with fantasy scenarios. Also funny how you love to talk about technology, but fail at pretty much the most basic level of storage capacity and its price.

Sure you can get a junk Micro SD Card for $50 with a lot of storage, but that's going to be a crap 100-170MB/sec card that's slow as molasses. Just like you can get an old regular fat HDD with 4TB and declare yourself a genius because you have way more storage than the NVMe drives Sony and MS sell for the PS5/XSX. There's just one problem, your drive is a turtle by comparison. 

Nintendo could easily get UFS 3.0 or 3.1 speed internal flash storage, which can have up to 2100MB/sec read speed, it will blow any SD Card out of the water. And UFS 3.0 isn't some magical new or exotic technology, it's just the standard flash memory that's in hundreds of millions of Android phones and tablets already. And UFS 3.0 is the *old* standard from 2018, the new Android devices use UFS 4.0 which is double the speed, so Nintendo would likely be getting the 3.0/3.1 dated version for a laugher of a cost. 

If Nintendo were to offer it, I think plenty of people would rather pay the extra $50 and have the higher speed internal storage. Relative to what you pay to go up in storage for say an iPhone or iPad, getting double or quadruple (lol) the amount of high speed internal storage that's way faster than an SD Card for only $50 more is not bad at all. Also a lot of those cheap SD Cards have high failure rates and don't actually even hit the low end speed they claim, seen plenty of "150MB/sec cards" Micro SD cards that when tested are only reading at 80MB/sec if you're lucky ... you get what you pay for. 

UFS flash storage has other big advantages over older flash storage too, it's smaller and consumes less battery power. 

Or they could simply get a M.2 SSD if they want higher speeds. A small 256GB M.2 2242 costs just below 20€, 25€ for the even smaller 2230 format. Also, they both come with 2000MB/s second read and ~1000MB/s write. For 30€ you're already able to get a 480GB SSD, so why not go this route for extendable storage?

Also sure, Android Phones have the capability for UFS 3.x - but their chips can't keep up with that, as evidenced whenever you're getting some lengthy loading screens. UFS speeds are highly hypothetical and just like SSDs need multiple chips to achieve their full potential. 256GB SLC would be the absolute minimum fur UFS3.x to even make a difference over past standards - but at the same time, you can get cheaper 500GB MLC with similar speeds. In other words, going UFS 3.x and less than 500GB would be a waste of UFS. At that point, I don't think Nintendo would create another storage tier anymore.