Cheap?

Still I agree if people want to put a 200gb micro sd in there, let them (if possible).

4 x 128gb is half that.

Games? Nobody's making 512GB games anytime soon. That's 10 discs to install for Sony/MS or a lotta lotta internet.

512GB Hard drive the size of a 3ds cartridge for $160 sounds pretty reasonable to me.

I think we are kinda going to have to accept the bigger AAA games on console are likely not happening on the Switch.

It will get ports of certain types of games, but many of them will be a nope.

Developers are not going to jump through so many hoops (downgrading graphics for a mobile Tegra chip *and* compressing games to 1/3+ the size of their PS4/XB1 counterparts to be able to fit onto a cartridge and keep size low for digital because the NS can't use a HDD).

Are you saying $160 for a memory card is reasonable?

If Switch is $250-$300, that would effectively make its take home cost by $410-$460, more than a PS4 Pro, maybe even more than a 6 TFLOP XBox Scorpio. 

That's insane. 

Eventually someone has to stand up against lazy third party console developers! Pretty soon you will need a 100TB hard drive just to play games. I have over 76 Steam games on my computer which only has a 1.35 TB drive and I'm using only 459 GB including OS, etc... Granted some of my games are old or smaller sized game but there are decently sized games on my computer too.

512GB for the size of 4 micro SD cards, with double or triple spinny disk transfer speeds.

I'd pay that just so I can play games instantly rather than having to wait until Day 2 for a 'Day 1 purchase'.

Eh, that seems like a pretty extreme setup, and people complained that Vita memory cards added too much to the cost, lol. 

To be honest I don't think this will be as big of an issue because a lot of those mega-huge AAA type third party games are not going to be on the NS anyway.

So if its mostly Nintendo games, 3DS developers, and Japanese devs, along with lower-scale Western games ... a standard memory card should be OK. 

No port for external HDD or SSD? I guess i have to say goodbye to 3rd party support then. No FF7r, No Dark souls, and definitely no Bethesda AAA rpg.

I guess at this point I should just accept NS as a glorified handheld than a hybrid console

FF7R I think will happen on the NS, but it'll be tailor made for the NS. Japan matters to SE and I think they will want their bigger games on NS if at all possible even if they have to make some changes to the games. 

The other stuff yeah you're probably right. 

How big would a PS4/XBone HD have to be if you didn't have to install every game?

PS4/XBone has to install the game and still needs to have the disk. Cartridges don't need to install. The cartridge itself is a hard drive.

What happens when games are 512gb? How does MS/Sony manage? Disks are dead now. Digital has killed Sony's physical media. It's going to take 10 disks or they're going to have to start using 'carts' if they don't want week long installation times.

Disks aren't better than cartridge anymore.

The cartridge is striking back.