Nintendo Switch 2 Direct

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Zippy6 said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

Is there any confirmation of 80 USD for physical games? This is a steep increase in price

Or maybe is it just an american thing because of tarrifs?

UKphysical copy for MK is £75 it looks like they are charging an extra $10 for physical compared to digital. So $70 games are $80 physical and $60 games like DK are $70 physical.

Must be the new cartridges cost a lot to make. They have to be fast to run well without being installed to the internal storage but this is rough if this is going to be the case going forward.

Same problem will come with the SD Express cards. I just found 2 on Amazon Germany, and they're pretty small (128GB and 256GB) and with 49€ and 67€ also markedly more expensive than normal SD cards.

That said, they're also much faster than normal SDXC cards which generally top out at 200MB/s - but both are also from the slowest SD Express standard with just PCIe 3.1 x1 transfer speed (the faster standards have PCIe 4.0 x1 and 4.0 x2, so twice and 4x the speed), so limited to less than 1GB/s, or 880MB/s in this case. Even the lousiest M.2 SSDs these days are faster than that and it's just slightly better than a 2'5" SATA SSD Drive.

It's also interesting that Nintendo stated that the old SD cards won't work, as they normally do with an SD Express drive - they're just limited to UHS-I speed, so 104MB/s maximum even if the SD card otherwise would be faster.