Update: Looks like the Amazon US $199.99 deal has now expired, but the UK one is still available.
Original Story: If you're anything like us and have splurged on loads of games in the Switch eShop Cyber Deals sale, you're going to need to expand the storage in your Switch. We thought 400GB would be fine, but in the last year we've filled that up, as well as another 256GB card. SanDisk's 1TB cards are the obvious answer, but they've always been prohibitively expensive.
Well, now they're only 'really, really expensive' thanks to a Black Friday deal on both Amazon UK and US. You'll still be coughing up the price of a console if you want to get your hands on one of these beauties, but compared to their normal price, they're a steal!
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Of course, they're still damn pricey, but if you've gone full-digital with your Switch and really embraced the portability of Nintendo's handheld hybrid (or the non-hybrid Switch Lite), this is the best price we've seen these cards going for.
Of course, other sizes are available at far more affordable prices - check our Micro SD round-up guide to find the size that fits your needs and your budget.
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Got the 512GB card for £65 the other day, 1TB is still too expensive for me, but 512 is still 4 times larger than my last one. Hopefully the price will go down further before I need to upgrade again.
I went with a 256gb card a month ago on a deal. I see no point in going larger then that as I mostly go physical when i can. This allows me to get digital only games I want for the switch as well as patch that are large.
The 512GB Sandisk Extreme were available for $79.99 earlier today, I got one. Samsung Evo Select 512GB is also discounted to $64.99, which is a better deal for Switch as you don't really need the speed from Sandisk Extreme.
Its a shame there is nothing in between the sizes of 512gb and 1TB as the memory and price is a big jump, I'm now on a 512gb.
Youd have to be an idiot to buy that for the Switch, certainly the uk price with the 200gb card at £19
The 1TB is worth it ONLY if
1. You have a MASSIVE collection of both physical and digital
2. You ONLY buy digital and buy a lot of big full games (15GB+)
You can buy an Xbox one x with a terabyte hd for the price of that sd card 😂
Wow! At this rate I might buy shares in Sandisk.
Look at the listing and review, they not even legit
I filled up a 512gb card which adds up to around 160 games which I guess is a lot but it doesn't seem excessive. Only 13 of the games are over 10gb. The problem is I don't generally get physical games so it all adds up pretty quickly. Hopefully the price becomes affordable in a few years time
take note on how even more expensive the uk 1tb micro sd card is compared to the US price. 😱
I personally don’t get buying anything over 200gb it’s not like you can play everything at the same time anyway and I currently have 20 games downloaded on a 128gb card! When I want room I just quick archive the software and make room for what I feel like playing. I couldn’t justify spending nearly the same amount on a card that costs the same as a switch lite.
200gig is plenty, I will wait until Switch 2 is out in early 2022 and by then the 1TB will be half what they are now or even cheaper.
Picked up the 1TB during the deal. Good thing too my 400gb was screaming in pain and I have about 15 games with the little cross mark on them.
@Deathwalka 1) you’re paying for wasted bandwidth 2) you need an internet connection.
@Magonigal I have the 400gb and yea it does add up quickly. i have maybe 40 games with about 20 gigs free atm. 512gb is a good spot if you’re mostly digital
I’ve had to archive a bunch of games off my 256gb launch one a couple times now.. I hate to do it, but I don’t think 1 tb would be big enough anyways.
Hopefully next year holiday season the 1tb microSD dropped to $99 or lower, that's when I will buy it.
Great prices really, especially the 256 and 512 - which realistically both are big enough for quite some time!
1 TB is what I want but can't justify it for that money! I am a 512gb owner myself from before black friday. Yes, there are deals that pop up now and then at other times of the year too!
@MS7000
Heeey, someone else who went with a 512!
I'm waiting for mine to arrive on the 4th; Warframe and Smash are real gig-guzzlers!😂
I’ve already maxed a 1TB card going digital only.
In fact I have a v2 Switch for digital only, Switch Lite for digital only. And v2 Switch for physical and digital-exclusives, and each of them have their own 1 TB card. I could buy a spare to store in the Nyko kickstand, but since I’ll be upgrading to a larger size eventually anyways, I can just recycle the extra 1TB cards I upgraded from to be a 2nd sd stored in the kickstand.
Next one I purchase will be a 1.2 TB card, or whatever size comes next.
@Magonigal you might have filled it up but in reality you may play let's say 50 of those. The rest you could uninstall and install later if you decide to play them. The price for a 1tb is not even considerable even if you buy only digital.
I figure it would go up because of this only sale. But the price of 1tb is still to high to justify buying right now. If they had dropped it to at least 150usd I would consider it but since they wouldn't do that I had to pass.
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