Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Ive yet to need a card yet. Ill go as long as i can for Switch lifetime before buying memory. I buy physical games. When time comes ill buy a 64GB card at most. Switch games don't require that much memory.

Another game incoming from FDG Entertainment...

@antster1983 http://store.steampowered.com/app/446810/Blossom_Tales_The_Sl...

Makes sense. Looks a LOT like Zelda.

Stardew Valley has now been submitted to Nintendo.

https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/903528540729217024

NINTENDO SWITCH GAMES MAY REQUIRE MEMORY CARDS TO EXPERIENCE ALL CONTENT
_{Portions of games will still be available without a microSD card.}

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2017/09/01/some-nintendo-switch-ga...

I said it before and I'll say it again, it was a stupid decision to limit the internal memory to a miserly paltry 32GB's.....it wasn't enough for Wii U so it was never going to be enough for Switch. They've passed the buck on to the consumer and it's going to cause headaches.

Well, easier to pass the cost onto the consumer than pay more for higher capacity game cards

I'm happy to see that Golf story is coming on September.... I missed that kind of game so much. If VC comes, I would re download Mario Golf Advance Tour in a heartbeat.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Here's the thing.

For it to require a memory card implies the following, as games dont install like on other systems;

1: Either the developer doesnt want to use a costlier, larger 32gb cart

Or 2: The game uses a 32gb card, and in addition to that, the remaining 25gb on the system memory is also not enough in addition to that, as they specifically say an SD card is needed.

Which means these games are over 57GB in size, to mandate a huge cart and the necessity of an SD over internal storage.

And that raises a lot of other questions about these games.

They should put them on a 64GB card. They said cards up to 128GB were possible to play on Switch.

I don't wanna buy half retail games.

Hybrid of homeconsole and handheld is great, but hybrid of physical and digital is crap.

And I wanna see a game that's more than 64GB, heck they haven't reached close to 32GB yet (on Switch).

The game in question is NBA 2K18, which needs internet access and microSD card to download and save additional data, so that it can be the complete game.

A 25GB game that doesn't fit on a 32GB card? How can that be?
Is 2K Sports going the cheapskate? Did they put their Super Kyrie Irving Special Limited $99,99 Edition 25GB Game on a 16GB card??
However, Nintendo said that the games that use this cheapskate tactics will still be playable even in their vanilla version, but they'll be missing content. Content that should be on the physical card.

Kyrie is a huge wimp anyways. Crying for a trade cause he cant play under Lebron. Hes lucky Lebron came back to make Cle great again. 3 Finals appearances and 1 ring not enough. Hell he only played in one of those appearances. Have fun playing mediocrity basketball again Kyrie. /rant

No one should be buying this half assed game on Switch. What a joke.

Can anyone tell from the nba 2k footage if there is cloth physics in the game?

@BLP_Software

3: The 25gb game is using a 32gb cart, but due to the read-only nature of the cartridges, certain content had to be written to SD?

Perhaps the majority of the game is on cart, and it's just the online portion or something that requires a content update first.

I'll be interested to see how this pans out

4. The game when it went gold was broken/unfinished and they have to release a massive day 1 patch

In any case I got a 64GB MicroSD card for my Switch as a random cart filler to justify the shipping cost. It's not like storage is super expensive these days.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Then the console would've had 64 GB and the price of the console would be higher - higher than the current Switch and a 32 GB microSD card. The price gets passed on to the consumer regardless.

Anyways, this type of thing will be an issue until the larger capacity Switch cards are cheaper to manufacture, particularly the 64 GB card.

Here's another reason why this complaint has always been a bit stupid. Fair enough in the Wii days when the lack of storage was super limiting with no elegant way around it. But on the Wii U and the Switch? I don't get why people are upset at all. People who are annoyed at the lack of storage can resolve it by buying more storage. Done, problem solved.

Could the Switch have come with more storage? Sure. But you're still paying for that storage even if they include it in the box. What about the people who don't need the extra storage? Why should they have to pay more for storage they don't need just because you're too lazy fix the issue yourself? Do you want two SKUs with different levels of storage? Good luck finding the specific SKU you want!

Really, Nintendo have approached this in the best way they can. Make a single SKU for storage so that there's not the 8GB Wii U scenario again. Give people enough storage so that it's not limiting but not so much that people who don't need it are paying for stuff they don't need. Then give people the option to expand their storage with off-the-shelf, non-proprietary storage expansion options.

That's why I've said to properly get setup with a Switch you're looking at a lot extra on top of €330. You need a Pro controller, carry case if you're taking it out, screen protector, a memory card, a powerbank battery again if you're travelling, a game(both Wii and Wii U came with a game), etc.

And yes I understand that it's in part due to the limited and expensiveness of the cartridges but having larger internal memory could have alleviated the problem. It doesn't cost much to make it larger and it would have been cheaper for Nintendo to do(and passing on the cost) than for us buying memory cards.

@JaxonH Yeah. But if that is the case why wont it fit on the 25gb of free internal storage. Why *specifically * an SD Card?

@BLP_Software
Maybe this is like the LEGO city undercover where people just misunderstood. Maybe they're selling digital codes until the physical release comes out and that's why it says that.

I think speculating is futile. Just gonna have to wait and see

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Here's the thing though. If they were to include all of these things in the box do you think they would just pass all of the potential savings on? Unlikely. If the Switch had come with 2-4x as much internal storage, external battery pack, case, pro controller, screen protector and a game? It wouldn't have had a much higher RRP.

And that higher "value" would mean nothing to an end user who is one or more of:
1. Going to buy <10 games over the life of the console (i.e the average)
2. Mostly interested in cartridges for retail releases (i.e. the majority of sales)
3. Happy with the included controllers
4. Wants to pick their own carrying case
5. Is never going to take their Switch out of the house anyways
6. Already has a portable battery/spare microSD card

That's before you remember that microSD cards continue to drop in price. Today for about the cost of one full retail Switch game you can buy a microSD card that will store ~10 full retail games. What about next year? 20 games worth of storage for the cost of one full retail game? If you need that much storage for that many games you can afford buying the extra storage.

Just doing the maths for the games I've brought so far. If I had downloaded all of the games I've got so far? I'd have chewed up 25GB of the Switch's storage. Of which about 14GB could have been saved simply by buying the physical copy of Zelda. I would have had to have brought pretty much the entire Switch retail library thus far to have filled up both my internal storage and 64GB microSD card. Including that Japan exclusive Dragon Quest two pack.

I think it's a super huge whine with little merit. To be frank the only reason you'd care about storage is if you were buying a lot of games and downloading them all. And if you're doing both of those things your issue isn't price. Because you're buying a lot of games and also paying more for the convenience of downloading them.