curl-6 said:
I couldn't find a good source on the speed of Switch 2 game cards. The full quote from the dev was: "Snowdrop relies heavily on disk streaming for its open world environments, and we found the Switch 2 cards simply didn’t give the performance we needed at the quality target we were going for. I don’t recall the cost of the cards ever entering the discussion - probably because it was moot. I think if we’d designed a game for Switch 2 from the ground up it might have been different. As it was, we’d build a game around the SSDs of the initial target platforms, and then the Switch 2 came along a while later. In this case I think our leadership made the right call." |
Yeah, after some digging I could only do the math via loading speeds vs Lexar and SanDisk SDEX cards, and it comes around ~700MB/s...which is still faster than SATA SSDs.
Then again, I don't have a game, so can't test SSD vs NVMe, but yeah, we might be finally in the era where not having really fast storage is a big issue if perfectly smooth performance is the key, and it seems that was the case with Outlaws.
