Prices of Memory, including flash memory, are crashing down. I'm pretty sure a 32GB cartridge these days is cheaper to produce than a 16GB cartridge was during launch of the Switch.

For instance, you can get 256GB MicroSDXC for 30€ now. Just half a year ago, you would have payed 50€+ for that. 32GB MicroSDHC for less than 4€ now, 2 years ago, 16GB would still have been over 5€.

True for graphics, on the other hand I think no one expected it to look like the PC/PS4 versions on switch.

Regarding audio compression I doubt that 98 % of people playing video/computer games actually have a set-up where uncompressed audio matters. Heck blind tests usually show that, at least with music, you can use pretty heavy audio compression (how heavy depends on compression algorithm) before you notice the sound being compressed (with some instances people prefering more heavily compressed files).

If it doesn't cost the double price of the PS4 version, I give it a try on Switch to support their efforts. I don't already have it because the main character is not appealing to me. On the other hand the locations and setting is quite nice. Is it completely offline or has it online functions?

I already have it on ps4, but I might get it again for switch, this dev deserves the support.

To say that Witcher 3 is not open world is just nitpicking. 3 of the areas are big enough to e their own open world game themselves, and the other two are still pretty good sized. I hardly call hitting a loading screen like 5 times in a game as not open world. 

The fact that you can spend 30 some hours doing quests without having one loading screen, traversing the wilds and going to dozens of towns is open world to me. Having to load 5 areas in the game total is nothing.

GOTY is only 55gb on PS4. The texture resolution has definitely been reduced which will save a ton of space, they may have also compressed audio more. I said they could get it down to 24-32gb if they wanted.

I am glad they are doing it. Hell I'd pay the extra $10 to help them offset the cost.

If Crapcom did it i would have owned all their games on Switch already

Wow, they are just throwing so much shame at third parties at this point

Well they must have saved a lot of space on the assets reduction, because the game with all DLC is a lot bigger than 32Gb on the other platforms.

I'm super curious to see what this looks like hands-on.