Normal microSD cards pretty useless in Switch 2?

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Conina said:

1. On PS5, you can play PS4 games directly from USB-devices (SATA-SSDs, HDDs) and you can store PS5-downloads on them... just move the one you wanna play now into internal storage.

2. On Xbox Series, you can play XBO + 360 games directly from USB-devices (SATA-SSDs, HDDs) and you can store XBS-downloads on them... just move the one you wanna play now into internal storage.

3. On Steam Deck (and other PC handhelds), you can play any PC game from normal SD cards... if there are performance problems, just move that game to internal storage.

1. and 2. PS4 and XBO/360 games are made to be able to run from the disc (even though most needed installation). An 8x Blu-Ray drive tops out at a measly 36MB/s transfer speed, something even USB 2.0 from 2000 with a max practical speed of ~50MB/s could keep up with with, let alone a more modern 3.x device or a not-totally-trash HDD. Also keep in mind that since most games of last gen needed to be installed (for storage reasons, not transfer speed), they were standard to be installed on a HDD anyway. Switch should have gone a similar war to allow Switch1 games to run on SD cards and only Switch2 games needing SD Express cards

3. This is how the Switch should have handled this issue. I do expect however that going forward less and less games will run from an SD card as more and more games put an SSD under minimum configuration.

One question that I still have is with the save data from games on the switch, hopefully that one can also be transferred that way...