It sounds the rumors about Switch 2 carts only coming in a 64GB capacity were true, but smaller alternatives are on the way

[Soundwave]

OneTime said:

Soundwave said:

Those crap thumb drives aren't as fast as Switch 2 cartridges and half of them crap out after like a year of use (would certainly hope Switch 2 carts don't do that). 

Switch 2 cartridges are custom and are going to cost more. 

Looks like it's about $11.70 USD (equivalent to 10 euro) for these smaller sized carts as opposed to $16 that was leaked earlier for the 64GB carts from a 3rd party dev. 

That's a bit better, but still not cheap. 

I don't know exactly how much the Nintendo ones are, but I can guarantee you these things are going to be cheap as chips in volume.  Take a look at your favourite electronics components provider for the sort of prices to expect.  I'd be surprised if they picked something > $3.  This is straight profit margin for them...

The $16 price per cartridge (64GB) was revealed by a Switch 2 third party publisher, that *is* the volume/mass production price for that size.

So about $11.70 (10 Euros) for a smaller size cart (16GB? Or is it 32GB?) is probably about correct. 

The Switch 2 cartridge are significantly faster than most of those junk SD Cards (standard SD Card not Express) and thumb drives at the store or on Amazon/Alibaba/etc., they're also basically a proprietary format too which will make them more expensive.