If you prefer to buy your big releases digitally, you'll likely be interested to know just how much room Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order will take up on your Switch. Luckily, that info has now been shared.
The North American eShop listing has updated to reveal that the game will use up 13.2GB of your Switch's memory (so just a tad bigger than Super Mario Maker 2, then). With the Switch's internal storage only standing at 32GB (or slightly less after taking away the space needed for the operating system) you may well find yourself needing a microSD card if you own other games, too.
While we're here, the eShop listing has also revealed that the game will support English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Korean and Chinese languages, and confirms that 1-4 players are supported both online and via local wireless. Earlier this week, we shared a video containing several minutes of new gameplay.
If you do happen to need a microSD card for your Switch, our handy guide to the best deals might come in handy. A new 1TB microSD card has recently launched, but you might need to remortgage to even consider it.
Will you be buying Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order digitally? Or are you a physical fan? Let us know down below.
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That's fine. Physical all the way
This, Astral Chain and Fire Emblem 3 houses are eligible for Nintendo Online Game tickets.
Queue all the people saying, "but it doesn't look graphiclly intense at all, so they're obviously bad at making games!"
@RandomLeo00
Oh Astral Chain is too? Interesting, is Nintendo publishing that one too?
Big enough for a decent amount of content? Hopefully so, the others were relatively bulky.
Local wireless?? Does it support local on one switch??
Bet that amount doesn't include all characters, which you will have to download to your system to use.
I've got a 256gb SD card that's filling up fast, and unless I start mass archiving games, I might need to opt for physical on this one.
I would have probably skipped it altogether, but I'm stoked that Marvel is finally letting their characters play nice with the Mutant family again. This is probably the closest we'll get to an X-Men game until Disney starts cranking out X-Movies.
Digital for meeee.
@MoonKnight7 Yeah, Nintendo is indeed publishing Astral Chain.
@gimmi_c I think it does. Search for ‘Game Informer Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3’ on YouTube. They did a load of videos last week after getting invited to Nintendo to go hands on with it. I’m sure that in one of the video they talked about multiplayer on one Switch, but that it was kinda confusing due to the small screen and how hectic the gameplay can get (I think they were comparing it to multiplayer gaming docked/ non TV).
@nessisonett it seems like this game will be bigger than the former 2 but even if it’s smaller according to gameinformer there is a higher focus on replayability so that’s great too. Examples are characters now level individually, levels can be replayed at any time, replaying levels ads new challanges, replaying levels with characters that weren’t unlocked during the first time playing that level ads new dialouge and cutscenes, etc etc etc.
An example of a new cutscene that game informer gave was when you replay the first level with captain marvel you get quips and cutscenes about her suddenly being there. The first time playing that level you can only use the guardians.
That's not bad. Anyone who owns a switch should have an sd card anyways. Same way anyone who plays xbox or playstation needs a hard drive. No big deal.
@MoonKnight7 Astral Chain and more to come. The list will supposedly grow over time.
@Ajent Yeah; they tried the 4 player local coop on table top mode for the sake of testing it (and you can turn on and off on-screen damage display numbers).
@AntiHero great, i wouldn't consider it without local Coop!
@subpopz
My blackberry key2 has 128gbs in a much smaller form factor than the switch. Nintendo could have upped the storage to at least 64gb. They literally matched the Wiiu storage from 2012.
I like to double dip with games that have a physical Collector's Edition, but this one might be too big. I hope it doesn't have a Collector's Edition.
Physical all the way. Hoping for a nice special edition but looking doubtful... I’ll take Punisher and Blade as playable instead!
Physical for me! This game looks fantastic!
@darkswabber Sounding more and more like a Diablo-level experience! Looking good so far!
Not sure yet if I want physical or digital yet. I have the whole series and Xmen legends physical so this would round it out on my shelf... but digital is nice too. Decisions, Decisions.
i have my pre order already im getting it psychical i want the case lol
@Dahn_ @imgrowinglegs
Good to know, thank you.
Physical, of course.
Rumor has it they have freelance testers alpha testing it. I've been hired before at bit.ly/2Hn6oy7 I'm definitely keeping my eye out on this!
I highly doubt there are any Switch owners who play digital games and don't have an SD card already, unless they're very recent adopters - and those people can get a chunky SD card for next to nothing these days.
This is a complete non issue and has been for a long time.
I got a 200GB one for £40 at the Switch launch, have over 40 digital games, more retail than smaller games, and it hasn't come close to being filled.
@DTfeartheBEARD Im a physical guy unless there is a game that dousn't have a physical.
My copy of RAGE2 is 39GB on PC. And my original 1TB when I built my PC - is full.
Games are complex and in HD. You need to spend some cash on Storage at some point if you want digital.
@Ajent nice, thanks. Will be playing through the first two in preparation!
@MoonKnight7
Sorry I can't check now but fortunately some others already answered your question.
@graysoncharles For Switch to have 64 GB instead of 32 GB is irrelevant. You can buy cheap 258 GB SD cards everywhere. Nintendo has been clever on that.
@subpopz Na... the cheap Micro-Sd people buy also are garbage.
A regular 5200RPM HDD Read-Write can match/beat 80MB/s read speeds on most cheap microSD card. They usually do not even hit that speed.
My Switch card does 75.48 on CrystalDiskMark (just checked) even with the 7ms s-time on an old dell 5400 RPM it came at 76.55MBs
Switch Internal is fast - but in the end irrelevant because it cant really hold much. Everyone is being pushed to slow storage on Consoles.
So does this game have RPG elements at all like levelling and upgrading or nah
Ouch
Too close to Zelda's size, which I picked physical
This one I don't think is worth physical, as they're around 20-25% more expensive than digital in my country, but also, for this much space... Still, I bought Starlink and Revelations 2, so maybe, but I'm getting more picky now
@blockfight the PlayStation and Xbox come with sizeable hard drives so I laughed at this comment.
I do agree everyone with a Switch needs an SD card but I can easily fit over 20 games on my Xbox with no extra store thanks to it's TB internal included hard drive.
I dont get the concern about file size with games like these. Anyone whos played the originals know it has the replay value of a fart and you will likely wrap it in 1 or 2 sittings.
It's a rental at best or just delete it when you're done. Problem solved. Jesus.
@saintayu fair enough. Xbox games are getting progressively larger in file size. I think Forza and Red Dead II had file sizes over 100gb recently. At that rate it's 10 games on the interal hard drive.
But i still take your point. Extra storage is pretty much a necessity regardless of what console your on though.
@gamer95 the ‘clever’ bit is the choice. You can add 64gb for £10, 128gb for sub-£20, 200gb for around £35-£40, or 400gb for £56 (currently on Amazon). Therefore Nintendo aren’t forcing gamers to pay an extra specific amount, but rather they’re allowing consumers to tailor their upgrades as per their usage and budget.
Still not sure if I want this game the more they reveal about it... only focusing on the MCU and little things like not being able to throw enemies around anymore makes it seems worse than the original.
Good, it’s file size is less than I was thinking it would be. I think I will buy this digital now. Now I can give my physical copy I pre-ordered to family.
I’m always amazed at how good Nintendo are at keeping their file sizes down. How do they do it?
I wish the first two games were still for sale.
Didn't hear they were gone till they got pulled from stores.
Sucks cause the remasters had all DLC characters unlocked...
I don't care, I definitely wanted this physical anyway.
@saintayu
We maxed out our standard Xbox One and PS4 within 6 months. My One X was maxed out on the day I got it, so I added a 4TB external drive so that all of my games are playable with deleting and reinstalling all the time.
My Switch started off with a 128GB card, which I filled up fairly quickly and after the first year I had to upgrade to a 400GB card. I still have 130GB left so hopefully that will last me long enough until 1TB cards are more affordable.
Anyway, I'll be getting MUA3 digital, along with Fire Emblem, Astral Chain and Mario Maker 2.
@gimmi_c It was confirmed to have this form of gameplay!
@CaPPa I'll never understand the need to have more games downloaded than you could ever play no matter the console. I had to force myself to feel up my Switch with 64 GB or my Xbox tbh.
I could understand if like the online shops were closing soon but other than that I only pay at most a forth of the games I have installed between both systems.
@gamer95 I own an xbox. Within a few weeks i had to buy an external hard drive for it. It's a fairly similar issue. That's all im saying.
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