Topic: Micro sd express/extreme??

I looked at the micro sd but I don't see any info on what card to prepare for. So are we to get express/extreme 1tb micro sd and the 2tb is the extreme version to get? So what's people think about this? So whom will be seller to get the micro sd for the Switch 2? So will it be sandisk and samsung micro sd to handle this transfers?

The largest available microsd express cards are only 256GB. Express cards have a read/write speed of 800MB/s. If the card you're looking at has 1TB+ of space it's likely just a standard microsd card with 100MB/s of read/write speed.

Much...much slower.

Where are they on Amazon?

@SwitchForce A week or so ago, I did see 128 or 256 gb sandisk express cards on amazon. I don't see them now. Maybe they're out of stock.

I do see that B and H photo (NYC) has preorders for 512GB express cards. But there's no release date. It says "new item coming soon". Granted, "coming soon" may not mean jack squat. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1868815-REG/sandisk_sd...

Lexar have announced that they'll be bringing a 1TB microsd express card to market next month in anticipation of the Switch 2 launch. Personally, I only go with SanDisk branded cards. I'd link the announcement, but my firewall said "no", lol. Just Google "lexar announce 1tb express card".

You don't need one yet

I noticed in the Nintendo part of today's Spawn Wave news, he mentioned something else I'm a bit worried about for switch 2. Will our switch game cards be slow compared to switch 2 and express cards, and possibly result in lesser, or handicapped, performance?

@WoomyNNYes Probably, unless some Switch games get Switch 2 enhancements.

@WoomyNNYes

I assume the initial load times (from launch to title screen) for Switch 1 physical games running on Switch 2 will be 1-to-1. However, once the game has loaded into memory, the Switch 2's additional bandwidth would make in-game load times shorter than on Switch 1. I assume digital purchases would load more quickly across the board because digital purchases will be saved to the on-board memory, which is UFS 3.1 256GB...I...think?

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/estorage/ufs/ufs-3-1/

@WoomyNNYes
Running off an original Switch cartridge obviously you're not going to get any storage performance benefit. But games may still load faster due to the increased memory bandwidth as @Magician said but probably more importantly the faster CPU. Because usually when you're waiting for things to load on Switch you're usually not waiting for storage (unless you have a really slow microSD card), more often than not you're waiting for the CPU to decompress assets

The Switch 2 CPU is significantly faster so even if they don't use the file decompression block for Switch BC I would expect much faster load times for Switch games. But yeah, if you're running of a Switch cartridge or a regular old microSD card it's more likely you'll hit that it'll hit that storage bandwidth wall. But again, if you're hitting that wall you're probably already loading the game faster than it did on Switch

I should also add that the Switch 2 cartridge slot does have additional pins which would be used for a higher bandwidth connection. They're clearly visible in the PCB leaks which I hope at this point people aren't dismissing anymore given we have an official trailer that cross-confirms a lot of it. So Switch 2 cartridges will be faster

@skywake Faster cartridges, yes. But there’s still nothing about what the shape will be and if they will have more storage and any differences compared to Switch 1 cartridges.