Look it is quite simple:

Sony reduces hdd on ps5.  Your view was SONY is the reason.

Nintendo doesnt offer anything other than 64 gb.  Your view, may not be Nintendos fault, maybe other factors.

Still a great poster Curl, but you do have a very pronounced bias.  

I don't recall hearing Sony may have reduced hdd for economic factors out of their control.  

There's other factors in Sony's case as well; tariffs and inflation. Both are eating into their profit margins, so to maintain that profit margin they had to choose between raising the price, or reducing cost. They chose the latter, but the decision was forced on them by external factors outside their control.

With the game card situation, the simple answer is we don't know. We just don't have enough information to conclude anything.

Physical cartridge are literally the worst way to play. They're the most expensive format by a mile and they offer the slowest speed (internal flash storage is faster and even SD Card Express is significantly faster). 

If Nintendo wanted to have speeds that could match internal flash storage, you'd be talking about $30 cartridges ... get over carts, they suck. I get nostalgia and collecting and all this, but it's time to move on, carts don't even have the game speed anymore, the Star Wars Outlaw developer said it straight up the cartridge is not fast enough for the game.

Game Key Cards are a fair compromise for like parents/grandparents that still want to give kids a physical gift and keeping retail partnerships for Nintendo while keeping the price of Switch 2 third party games in line with PS5/XSS pricing ... otherwise the games would be $16+ more across the board on Switch 2 because the cartridge costs $16 (even for the shitty ass slow speed). 

People don't understand all of the dynamics at play, they think you can just pull a high speed cartridge out of your ass that costs only $2-$3, that's not how it works. 

Full Game:
https://www.ebgames.com.au/product/nintendo-switch-2/325343-cyberpunk-2077-ultimate-edition

vs:

Game Key Card:
https://www.ebgames.com.au/product/nintendo-switch-2/332249-borderlands-4

https://www.ebgames.com.au/product/nintendo-switch-2/331453-nba-2k26-game-key-card

Same price why? cause 2k want bigger profit. 

Wanting the same profit margin that a new game (NBA 2K26 and Borderlands 4 are brand new day 1 releases) as the PS5/XSS versions is not a crime. 

If you guys got your way, and forced devs to make games on slow ass cartridges, these games would be $15 more on the Switch 2 and kill the Switch 2 software ecosystem. Who the fuck wants to pay $15 more for a new game. And guess what, no one would want to even play those games on the cartridge, they'd immediately want to move the game onto the faster internal storage. So basically you're paying $15 extra for nothing. 

They can take a slimmer margin on Cyberpunk 2077, it's a 4 1/2 year old game at this point that's already sold 95% of the copies it's ever going to sell. 

A developer is not going to eat $15/copy on a brand new day 1 release like NBA 2K26 and Borderlands 4 versus other versions. It ain't happening. 

Exactly. 

I feel like the game card discussion needs it's own thread, it's completely derailing this one, like 90% of posts aren't even about RE Requiem.

There's just a loud group of people on the internet that don't want to have a rational discussion on this anyway, so it's like arguing with a child that they can't eat cotton candy for breakfast every day. Even when you bring up facts and have developers say they literally can't run a game off the cartridge because it's too slow and you show the cost of the cartridge is significant $16/copy, and point out Cyberpunk 2077 is a 4 1/2 year old game that's already paid off its development costs years ago it's just like talking to a brick wall. 

Actually, feels like it fits into the conversation.  Will RE REquiem be on cart is a fair question.  RE8 was 30 gb.  Why aren't people allowed to ask if a game will be on the cart?  

Edit

My position would be no, it won't be the cart.  Capcom will not take on the extra costs.  I mean if we are aligned that RE Req is very likely to be GKC, we can move on.  

I would also add RE Req on the S2 is a rumor, not confirmed.  The game isn't out, so nobody knows if the game will be good or great.  And we don't know if the theory the S2 will have rebuilt assets is true.  We don't have a launch date.  So, what do you want to discuss as it pertains to a rumor with no information?  

The list of big ticket 3rd party games waiting in the wings for the Switch 2 continues to grow overall, games that either semi-confirmed by the developer themselves or outright confirmed or sourced from very reliable leakers:

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Final Fantasy VIIR Part 3
Final Fantasy XVI (port)
Resident Evil 9 Requiem
Starfield
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Forza Horizon
Halo Master Chief Collection
Indiana Jones & The Great Circle (confirmed)
Dusk Bloods
Elden Ring
Metal Gear Solid 3 Delta

RE9 Requiem probably also makes the RE Code Veronica Remake a lock for Switch 2 also. RE2/3/4 Remakes were a given. Good chance here that Switch 2 has the best Capcom support a Nintendo console has seen since the Super NES.