Is Switch 2's 256gb on par or worse than PS5's 825 launch model?

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haxxiy said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Silly comparison. It's a tradeoff between having mediocre loading speeds v acceptable v fastest. I can understand why some gaming systems have to value quantity over quality but Nintendo doesn't have those issues so they use superior metrics.

The UFS 3.1 interface in the Switch 2's internal storage is much slower than the PS5/XBS's PCI-e 4.0 SSDs, though.

Granted, its games are also much smaller, so loading speeds in many cases should be a wash, really, barring some CPU-limited scenario.

Yes and no. It's much slower than the PS5's 5.5GB/s SSD. It's slower than the Xbox Series SDD but not by near as much. 2.4GB/s vs. 2.1GB/s. The Xbox Series SSD has mid-tier PCIE 3.0 transfer speeds. A fast 3.0 SSD will give you over 3GB/s.