It's mostly about homebrew testing, but TL;DR; it looks like the write speeds on the U3 cards are indeed about 3x faster than the U1 cards which is pretty much what it says on the box. Read speads are more or less the same (switch can't saturate, or barely saturates UHS1, but the write speeds are so dismal on all of these that the U3 honestly really matters. So you get a choice of a U1 card that takes pretty much overnight to download anything, but get more bulk storage, or a U3 card that downloads reasonably but less total storage.
Makes sense. The 400GB cards are tempting but I think I'd rather have snappy operation and more physical AAA games than tons of bulk local space. I can always get multiple SD's and swap between 3 as easy as tons of game cards if I go that route ever. There's a reason my storage case comes with little SD mini cases that fit in the game case slots I guess 128 is just running out of space. 12GB left and Smash is due soon. That was always going to be digital, "game sharing" or no for me. 16GB of Vespyria can stay on a game card thx.
Okay, after watching that video I looked over my SD card in the Switch, and found it's a U1 card. Which would explain why it takes an hour to 2 hours to download and install a Switch game.
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@NEStalgia I did like the freedom you have to influence some events in Chrono Trigger: for example, killing Magus or having him join you, or the fact that you can bring Crono back to life. I didn't care much for the goofy prehistoric and futuristic settings, though, and I'm struggling to think of a single character I cared about by the end. And I'll never understand the praise for the music.
It's possible I also don't like time travel plot elements in games, as I didn't much care for Atlus' Radiant Historia, either.
Doing all the optional content really does help flesh out the characters a lot. For example if you let Robo stay in the past to help with reforestation you learn more about the inventor's past, and have a chance to prevent her mom from getting crippled. Or the optional stuff in the future fleshes out Robo's character a lot more. I've always thought it neat how what you do in one time period affects future time periods. And New Game+ giving you different endings based on where you are in the story when you defeat Lavos was brilliant.
@FaeKnight Aha, so we have the same problem! Yep, that's it, I'm getting the 256 U3 instead of the 400GB U1. Almost half the price too so that doesn't hurt.
@Ralizah Ahh, so the time travel thing is what fascinates me. I love that sense of this is the same place in a completely different time, and the causality paradox of affecting the future by changing the past. And that footage looks soooo good. Want, want want want want! But...Torna first....
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I mean, it's Japan.....don't you just expect that without having even seen it?
@FaeKnight You would think Nintendo would actually bring attention to the fact that it takes advantage of high speed cards rather than letting people buy cheap garbage cards and letting Switch look like it's so slow it's almost broken? To be fair, Samsung's control of the whole SD market has distorted what any of the versions mean. Then there's UHS-II that has TWO sets of pins. Switch may or may not have the second set to support the speed, but it says it supports 2TB cards, so presumably it does. Playing games is fine from U1, but downloading games apparently sucks on U1.
But it was telling to me that, while the horrible Hori Switch branded cards are U1, Hori knows nothing of memory they're a peripheral company. But Sandisk has Switch branded cards, and they are the U3 like their Extreme line rather than U1 like their Ultra line. Given they would cheap out anywhere possible for a Switch branded product it told me something they went with their more premium parts rather than mainstream parts. Sadly downloads on Switch will peg sustained writes like 4k video recording, and in terms of SD speeds, write speed is what you pay the big bucks for.
(Note that Sandisk (now Western Digital) is slimy where their specs page shows read speeds and simply has an asterisk saying "write speeds are slower". What they dont tell you is to look at the U rating standards board. The "100mb/s transfer" (read) cards really mean, for U1, 10mb/s write speeds. )
@NEStalgia I'm not a fan of the combat in Tales games, but I'm counting on this one having good enough plot/characters to keep me engaged.
Time travel plots are easy to mess up because the writers don't often think through the extended implications of messing with time. Or you get scenarios where someone travels far back into the past and is able to talk with the ancient peoples on an even footing. It's that inherent conceptual messiness that bugs me, and Chrono Trigger doesn't really think through these issues enough for my taste.
I'm now pricing a new U3 micro sd card, now that I know there is a difference and that U1 creates a huge bottleneck. Not to mention I need more space if I want to keep buying digital games
Not sure what I'll do with the old card once I replace it. Maybe move it to my tablet, I don't know.
Weird, are these U3 improvements recent? I remember something like anything above U1 being pointless for Switch last year because the console didn't take advantage of the extra speed.
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