Gallery: Micro SD Card Slot Shown Off In Ridiculously Close-Up Nintendo Switch Photos

I can't believe that it's less than a month until I (finally) get my hands on this beauty.

Also: @Damo Every angle, every slot...... shudders in a good way

Wow, I've never seen such a beautiful SD card slot.

These pictures are clearly not safe for work. You can C right up that USB port.

Also interesting to note that this is, according to the 1st and 3rd shots, a non-working dummy unit.

Power button looks like the one on the N3DS, which isn't my favourite.

Please someone bring ruler and measure Switch dimension + Switch monitor size in centimetre. Its size looks like as big as mini Ipad.

@Anti-Matter Screen is same size as Wii-U gamepad's screen.

Pics or it didn't...nevermind.

So, for people who have been hands on with this:

1. How does it feel in 1 hand should say Nintendo put SMR on Pokémon whatever on it? I've had 4 7" tablets and some are very nice - Tab 4 - and some are huge - B&N Nook HD - while Amazon Fire 7" is ok. None of these could I play SMR 1 handed, but I can hold this thing for a couple of hours like this no problem.

2. How is it going into the dock? Does it slide right down onto the connection easily every time or do you have to mess around with it a bit? Does it always seat nicely to connect or do you need to lean on the top a bit to snug it in? Does it slide down gently or land with a thud?

2a. How is it coming out of the dock? Can you just grab it and slide it out easily with 1st and or do you need to hold the dock down with 1 hand so it doesn't get picked up with the Switch?

That first shot gives a better impression of its size than any other I've seen - smaller than I thought.

It looks pretty darn slick. I just can't help but think there's going to be another iteration in a couple years. Ala New 3DS. I plan on playing Switch alot though so maybe this will be the first time I buy a piece of hardware more than once. Retro gaming excluded.

Someone needs a manicure.

Gotta hand it to Nintendo for pulling off such a complex idea in a rather elegant way.

It could probably look even sleeker, but as always, they seem confident the functionality is what will drive sales.

Wait, you mean I don't need to purchase a special type of screwdriver to open the back of the console, then follow a complex operational procedure to insert the micro SD?? Are you sure that's a real Nintendo console?

I love the design though I'm still kinda disappointed that it's going to be another glossy finish. That means more fingerprints will be on this thing more than ever just like the New 3DS XL.

@FragRed Be glad it's not like the N-Gage, better the microSD card slot than the actual game card slot.

Looks fantastic. Very modern. Very sleek. I have my concerns how much punishment the joy con connecter things will last under repeated use, but this being Nintndo im sure it will withstand the heaviest of hands.

31 days left till switch

That kick stand looks so flimsy and will probably break in a couple of seconds

Ugh!!!! Cant wait.

@NoxAeturnus
Hoo... thank you so much.

Well, it certainly looks robust, but there's an air of getting things done in as cheap a fashion as possible to it also; it's mainly all the visible screws that give "it" away for me (and this is something I noticed and thought about a while back). I expect it will be pretty high quality all-round though—hopefully.

Yay, they used normal screws! Not triwing or gamebit or any other nonsense.

You naughty boys! This is like a Nintendo system pinup spread!

Now look what you did to all those Nintendo consoles! How do you expect to satisfy them?

They want to look closer... Into that microSD card slot... Does it have those coveted dual rows of perfectly curved pins? Or is it just a single, flat, linear row of pins!? I must... I mean... They must know!

@FragRed Triwing Screwdriver confirmed. I have like three of those laying around...

NEED.

@Koke Nope, you can see twiwing screws in several screenshots...

@LiberatedAnimal who cares, that like saying you won't buy anything ever as there may be a new improved version down the line. Pointless

Nice, the more i see from it, the morebi love it. Nintendo is just Genius with this one.

Wow... I can't wait to put my small Game Card in that tiny slot! It's so beautiful!

Just one more month. Already have the system, Breath of the Wild, and the five new amiibo paid off, plus a three-day weekend to boot!

My reaction to a new Switch article (with hi-res images)...

@Damo it looks accessible enough to allow hot swapping. are the memory cards hot swappable?

Build quality looks pretty good. So solid. Makes me wanna buy it first day, but I won't

The build quality looks excellent, very much along the durable 3ds path rather than a plasticky home console path.
You could say it feels more like a gadget than a toy!

@Jamotello I hope they are swapable at all! we still don't know if you can multiple SD cards with one account!

So I'm guessing the joycons charge thru some indirect way like the Apple Watch. I don't see any contacts on them or the switch.

@Claytonbob That's what I've been wondering too. If there are physical contacts, they must be hidden on the side of the rails somewhere.

i like how it's clearly build out of Nintendium and it's so much smaller than i imagined

I think this is the most fun I'll ever have with a gaming console yet... just lying on bed playing something like BOTW or Skyrim.

I will never get over the placement of that right analog stick. Thumbs are not meant to be in that position for extended periods of time.

Also the back of that Joy Con seems to have some extended wear already. Not a good sign

@G-Boy

I'm going to start calling the Switch the DS 2 with all this lewd air around the thing.

Are we sure it's not 2004? Or '05? Really?

Though have you seen how Nintendo marketed their things in the mid 000's? One ad for the GBA SP claimed it was "The second best thing to do in the dark." with a naked man playing an SP in bed while lying next to some lady.

Like, GOOD GOD MAN! The frickin device is for children! o_o

Oh boy wipes sweat from brow those are quite revealing. Is this alright to post this on a family website?

Ya these screenshots are sexy.

I can't wait to hold it in my hands, caress my fingers along its fine curves...

@rjejr
1) I am not sure if you are talking about handheld mode or only one joy-con controller but I answer for both. The weight of handheld mode is a bit heavier than iPad in generally. As for joy-con controller, I feel awkward with two hand since the controller is literally in the palm of your hand. I was playing Bomberman R and Sonic Mania and its not bad since you only need one button. I don't know about more complex game that required more than one buttons. But I tried the demo of ARMS and its actually work pretty good in one hand. Only issue, I have with ARMS is that sometimes its hard to press the ZR and R or ZL and L button since the buttons are small. You use L to dash and R to jump. One of the ZR or ZL is to use special.

2) I tried doing this myself and its pretty easy once you get hang of it. First time, I wasn't lining up then I got the hand of it. Pulling it out of the dock is the easiest part in my opinion.

By the way, you might have to press ZL and ZR buttons if you pull it out of the dock or put it in since you can change controller. For example, I put it in the dock then I can press ZL and ZR buttons on the Pro controller to use the Pro controller.

I was hoping the MicroSD slot would be under a screwed-down panel (like on the New 3DS) to protect it from damage and accidental removal. Good to see that the game card slot has a cover over it.
These photos show a non-functional display unit, so it's possible things will change with the real Switch.

That's an even more elegant and streamlined piece of tech than I'd imagined. That's a really nice machine. The appearance of exposed, non protected screws on the exterior is an encouraging sign for repair ability. Hopefully those are involved in opening the case, and not just for mounting the ports. Battery replacement might be easily possible (if we can find batteries.)

@jswhitfield8 The slight delay going from handheld to TV is the required HDMI handshake for EDID recognition (and HDCP handhake if the console has HDCP enabled.) The same would happen replugging the HDMI cable (or changing the input on a switch (switch, not Switch) in its signal chain) on a WiiU, for example.

I'm just glad I won't have to take the system apart to insert a Micro SD card. The New 3DS is horribly designed that way.

@gatorboi352 The stick positioning looks weird, but I've yet to hear anyone who's been hands on with it say it was anything but comfortable. I'm thinking it depends on where the weight is distributed and how it balances on the hand as to the position the forearm ends up shifting to locate the thumb there. I EXPECTED it would be uncomfortable, but all the reports so far are contrary.

The wear on the back, this is a non-production unit that's clearly been handled by thousands of people and trotted out to trade shows and the like for private meetings for a while. Even abrasion wear out of the realm, that doesn't look like abrasion wear to me, that looks like chemical wear from the various skin oil chemistries mixing and corroding it. Some people alone produce a gasoline-like substance in skin oils that stains and over time makes plastic brittle by leeching the plasticizer out, and this isn't a machine designed out of public exhibition quality materials like, say, an arcade cabinet.

You can what you want about the Switch but it is such a beauty.

I'm surprised it doesn't have a slot to swipe your credit card.....

One thing I'd like to know if anyone has been able to have a look;

Is there any rubber/padding or some sort of rollers that prevent the screen being scraped while putting it into the dock? I haven't seen a good look inside one yet. It might influence whether I bother with a protector...

@dereq Yeah, I think "gamepad" is the absolute last coloring scheme we'll get for this. There's higher odds of a Virtual Boy theme I'd wager.

@ULTRA-64 Apple probably holds the patent on that.

@Super_Gravy Thanks, seems usable, good to hear. Oh, for my first part I was wondering more for tablet games like FE Heroes and Super Mario Run and Pokemon Shuffle if Nintendo decides to bring them to Switch. Which personally I think they will once it's been out awhile and they stop making 3DS games, but we'll see.

@rjejr I don't know, that could cannibalize real Pokemon sales and FE sales. I'd think they'd want to segment the platforms and their content, especially if they're just running one platform.

@jswhitfield8 Thanks for all of that, they should hire you.

And I just don't ask for myself, I have 2 sons who would be taking it in and out a whole lot more than I would, maybe several times a day, so I've been wondering about how well the dock and Switch works together. Sounds good, worries somewhat alleviated.

"Oh yes, who's a bad girl console? You're a bad console! Show me your best side..."

"Aaaaaawwwwwwwwww yeah baby, open up that Micro SD slot of yours... naughty! Be naughtier! Rawr!"

Everything is made funner with references to PXZ.

@NEStalgia "cannibalize real Pokemon sales"

Well, 3DS, the home of what most people would consider to be the main Pokemon games, has free Pokemon games Pokemon Shuffle the match 3 game and Pokemon Rumble World which is actually 100x better than Pokemon Rumble U I paid $18 for on Wii U. Last I checked Pokemon S&M on 3DS was selling just fine, no cannibalization there that I could tell.

So why would they cannibalize sales on Switch?

@AlexSora89 Its past your bedtime isn't it? You always get fun when it's past your bedtime.

Them fingers are absolutely disgusting.

@rjejr
Half past eleven PM, Italian time. Nope, it's not past my bedtime... yet.

It's great to see that the SD card is easily accessible. If Nintendo allows for multiple SD cards to be put in the system (with specific formatting) I could easily swap out 32GB digital game libraries on the go.

@jswhitfield8
Yea I think its mostly metal for Nintendo Switch. Its hard and durable. But I disagreed with you on Joy-con sideway. I feel Wiimote sideway is better than Joy-con sideway but Joy-con did have extra two shoulder buttons if you don't count the extra minus or plus button on the wiimote.

Oh by the way guys, the plus and minus on the Nintendo Switch are actually buttons. I didn't know that until I tried it out.

@rjejr Oh nevermind, my mistake. You wrote "Pokemon Shuffle" next to Mario Run and my brain saw "Pokemon Go" No, Shuffle wouldn't cannibalize anything.

@jswhitfield8 Thanks for the info, that's great news! I was concerned about the right sitck layout being awkward, but it's encouraging to get a first hand opinion on that even outside official writeups from the press. Fortunately for me "muscle memory" for me is all over the place having used the Gamepad, WiiU Pro controller, X360 controller and Dual Shocks - even Vita - alternately for ages, I'm fairly adaptable to changing stick positions. This one looks like the most different angle, but I haven't heard a single negative opinion of it from you folks who have used it yet! (Contrary to the tons of people who have never touched one but know it's awful )

Just looking at the photos, I'm guessing it has an aluminum frame and aluminum Joycon rails with thermoplastic body panels.... did you notice if the body panels are nanotech/rubberized at all at least on the Joycon?

@Super_Gravy if it were really metal (and glass??) on the body panels I would be ASTOUNDED they hit a $300 price point. For it to be metal it would have to be aluminum or magnesium. Magnesium costs a FORTUNE but can be thin and light and easily molded. Extruded aluminum is harder to shape and to do it thin (thus the unibody designs on most aluminum laptops/phones/tablets.) But this doesn't seem like a unibody. I'm assuming an acrylic touch screen rather than Gorilla Glass, and plastic body panels..... If it turns out to be glass and metal I think I'm going to insist in every thread that everyone that complained about the price turns in their gamer card

@rjejr SLiding into the dock is a little bit trickier than I hoped. It took me a little bit to get it working when I tried switching back and forth when playing Disgaea 5 at the NY event.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy Actually what I said was I will probably buy more than one switch, whereas in the past I've only bought one iteration of a given hardware. 3DS but not New 3DS. Read first.

@iGen Gaming ads used to be so much more interesting...

@MisterKorman It just means that they trust and respect you enough to show how comfortable they are around you. And they believe that you will not abuse their exposure...

@manu0 it would make no sense if you could only use one memory card per account. that means it probably makes perfect sense to someone at nintendo that you can only use one sd card per account.

@retro_player_22

No it isn't. The only part of the unit that's glossy is the screen, which is obvious. The joycons are matte.

@LiberatedAnimal thanks for explaining that. It really made my day

@Jamotello well that's how it is right now on 3DS!

@manu0 whenever i upgraded my 3ds memory card, i just did a transfer of all content from one card to another. it was a completely different card, just with all the same stuff and it worked as i pop it in. i just assumed they made it easier for users to hot swap. i had no idea it HAD to be the exact same stuff all this time. yikes. hoo boy. nintendo, you better clarify this for the switch.

@Jamotello yes you can transfer EVERYTHING from one card to a bigger one. but you can't, let's say, have half of your games on one card and the other half on another card and use them both

@manu0 Are you certain of that? I ask because of the number of accessory makers making SD card cases along side their Gamecard cases. It implies that it would be desirable to travel with multiple SD cards. If it's as you say, that accessory has truly no usable purpose.

@jswhitfield8 That's really good to hear. I was thinking about it, it actually IS possible it's aluminum. I imagine the hardware gets pretty warm, and your hands are on the plastic controllers. If it doesn't spin the fan in handheld mode, using the case as a heatsink would be desirable. What sounded preposterous might actually be the reality.

@NEStalgia certain of what? regarding the 3DS? yes. regarding switch? no. as I said "we don't know". but the multiple SD card slots in the game card cases are a positive sign.

@manu0 Ahh, got it, I thought you were talking about the Switch SD slot. (*slinks away into corner.)

@NEStalgia @jswhitfield8
I can't explains it either. It is heavy but not too heavy. Its doesn't feel warm at all when I was at the event. Did you feel anything warm assuming you are not in the pool. ;P

@jswhitfield8
And I see your point on the controller. XD

@marandahir "SLiding into the dock is a little bit trickier than I hoped."

Thanks for that. I'm glad my kids are older, I can just imagine 5 and 8 year olds fighting over who's turn it is to play in portable mode trying to wrestle it out of the dock, yikes.

Hope people don't attack you on here for speaking your mind.

@PlywoodStick

...To horny men.

@G-Boy

I don't think it was.

Especially after what I just brought to the table.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy No problem anytime fam. 😉