This 400GB Micro SD Card Looks Perfect For Switch Owners

If it drives down the price for the smaller cards, particularly the 256 GB card, then this is great news.

400 GB probably won't be necessary anytime soon

Looks like Sandisk reacted quickly to the Nindies Presentation

Yeah...

Hopefully this means a good price for a 256gb card come Black Friday.

Not worth the price in my opinion. I got a nice 128 GB card for 47$ (CAD) when I bought my Switch last month and I'm quite happy with it.
I prefer physical games when possible so I likely won't fill that 128 GB soon...

I'd rather buy 3 128gb cards thank you.

I like it, and want bigger ones so I can get these ones:)

My current 200 is doing a fine job so far though. To be honest, in digital only land this is good news:)

Seems a bit overkill to me, but I'm glad it exists as an option.

It's cheaper to just get multiple smaller ones.

Although I won't be even considering buying one this is great news. The sooner the larger capacity cards come to market the better as it reduces the "small" cards cost. In a couple of years the smallest cards will probably be the 64gb ones. We've come a long way from the 80's 5 and a quarter floppies!

Personally, I have about 17 downloaded games on my Switch, and I haven't taken up even a third of my 100gb SD card.

Still, it's nice to know bigger storage is coming down the line. I do wonder how other people who go primarily digital with big games have been dealing with storage.

With the exception of my launch day physical purchase of Breath of the Wild, I've gone all digital with my Switch purchases. Right now I'm not a million miles from filling up my 64GB card, so I'll try and grab a 128GB or 200GB card when funds allow.

As for a 400GB card? I just look forward to the day I actually need that much gigage! 🙂

would the bluewave work on the switch?
its 512gb for 100 euro

$ 250 ??!!
Geeeez........

Nice, i just bought a 256gb samsung micro sd card last week on sale from best buy for $89.99 for my switch.

I'm mostly physical media so this card should last me awhile unless a bunch of gamecube games and VC support comes pouring in quickly (yeah right).

Good to see the bigger cards are starting to roll out now, i should be fine until the 2tb micro sd is out.

Hoping for a price drop on the 256gb one now. Having a 400gb option now is amazing. My 128gb card still has a lot of space, so I'm not upgrading anytime soon.

Well at least Nintendo prepared for this future. Not like the 3DS where you're stuck with 32/64GB cards among a 300 games at a time limit.

I've bought a 128 and figure that'll last me til 256 falls in price. Not downloading big games this time.
Did for WiiU but had a 2tb hard drive.

Doubt the whole Switch catalog is near nor over 200gigs so far that indeed overkill. Someone is thinking way ahead lol

I'm just amazed that this exists (and omg I feel old!)

Could just buy 4 -5 physical games instead. 😛

@BlueKnight07 depends on the game, good game +tax is about 100can here.
I bought 128gb for $46

Ordered

I needed this. I'm using a 256gb in each of my Switches, and a 200gb in each 3DS (which are full btw, and if 3DS can fill up 200gb you already know what Switch will do).

On Wii U, I bought all my games physically. Just from digital exclusives, indies, updates, VC, etc, I managed to use up 250gb of space. So I estimated about the same for Switch. However, i'm thinking I want to buy all the big retail games a second time as digital copies. After Monster Hunter XX, and Switching between it and Splatoon 2 and Mario + Rabbids, I'm really craving the ability to switch between titles without changing cartridges.

Just Zelda, Mario Kart, Arms, Splatoon 2 and Mario + Rabbids would be about 30gb. And that's just covering Nintendo games in first six months... multiply that by 10 to cover the next five years worth of Nintendo games, and you're looking at 300gb. Ya. And that's not counting third-party titles I might want digitally also (like MHXX). Skyrim and Rocket League and FIFA 18 and Dragon Quest Builders 2 and SMTV and....

I'm thinking a 1TB card would suffice. But I suppose for now, 400gb will have to do.

Lol I've only got a 64gb micro sd. Now that's a big sd card!

I have a 256G card so as much as I'm a downloading maniac it should sustain me for a while. I really don't download retail games just the digital ones. Besides I haven't seen anything bigger than 13 Gig which was Zelda.

As long as physical games are cheaper (and usually they are) I'll hold off till my switch is almost full, and now it's got over 20GB still open.

I 200gb and have barely used any of it.

There's actually already a 512 GB SD card, by Kingston.

@NewAdvent
"Seems like they aren't able to reliably release a 500GB card yet unfortunately. SD will get there eventually though.

Will be fairly satisfied once the 256GB card drops to a reasonable price."

Sooo i download games to my sd card.
How do i upgrade my sd card? just transfer my files?

I betcha the Chinese black market will eventually have one of these for a fraction of the cost.

Oh my that is so pricey. I think for me 128gb Micro SD would be enough, I don't think 400gb is practical just yet for Switch. My PS4 has a 1TB hard drive which seems like enough, but you are required to install games, so it's a trade off...

@DeQuimet when the monster hunter New 3DSXL I bought a 256 micro sd card cause I found a program that made it readable on the New 3DSXL (remember it supposedly can only recognise up to 32gb). No issues the last 3 close to 4 years. Gonna get another 256 for the indie games and Sonic Mania type games or great games that are downloadable only. I'll be buying most my games in physical form. Smart idea

My 256 baby has been just about perfect for me, so far! Haven't had so much as a hint of concern.

I just read that NBA 2k18 is clocking in at 25G!! To the best of my knowledge that may be the largest Switch game yet.

YYYAAAAAYYYY... no😐

Nintendo, how about a way to play games solely in docked mode off of an external HDD?

I've had a Switch since launch, and have yet to play a game in portable mode (nor do I plan to).

@RupeeClock
Even still, as small as the Switch games are, I would say 64 of 128 GB cards would be fine.

I remember my computer back when I was in middle school had a 20gb hard drive. I thought that was so impressive...now I can fit 20x that amount on my fingertip. I wonder if I will think the same about now in 15 years?

@NewAdvent Sandisk has a 512gb card for about $300 US.

I am going to get a Samsung Evo plus 128 GB sd card for 39.99, but I still have 19.00 gigs left (14gb if I leave 5 gigs for saves.And 11.7 if I buy Mario Rabbids KB. ) so unless Mario Odessey is bigger than this then I shall be fine without a sd card

And to think, the Switch is designed to accept up to 2 terabytes, which don't even exist yet as micro SD cards.

i find something so wrong with a 400gb microsd card because it's too even a number when i've become accustomed to 2 to the power of whatever. i could even accept 384gb, smaller as it is as it's (2 to the 7th power) x 3. but 400 is just so WRONG. i'll wait for 512 or even 480.

@RupeeClock lol, I remember when 64MB was mind blowing! Imagine where we might be in another 20 years

I got a 64gb for £9 lol ... I don't download anything really so it's perfect for me

@retro_player_22 : With a fraction of the lifespan too.

Ive just been Archiving games im not playing , i'll buy an Sd card at some point , but right now that money gets spent on games.

At least it'll go down in price faster than the Switch!

Not needing to install retail games makes a big difference to storage needs at least for those of us buying mainly physical. Minecraft user files are the biggest user of internal space for me, my 128G still has 107G free with 19 games (6 physical, 3 just demos). In the next year or so 256G will cost same as 128 does today and I expect that to be fine. Always better value to avoid the bleeding edge of tech

@GammaPhonic
I remember my neighbour having a 16k ZX Spectrum. 😝

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I would have gotten this if it had released much earlier this year! But now I'm already on my way towards filling up the 256gb card I have in Switch! If I could figure out a way to efficiently transfer all my data and games over, then find a new place for my 256gb card, I'd TOTALLY grab this 400gb card immediately!

Unfortunately my phone already has a 256gb sd card of its own so that's out. Heck, even my 3ds has a 256gb card in it too! Curses!

@RupeeClock
lol. "just years ago" a 5.25in floppy with a "high density" model holding 1.2 mb!

@sillygostly Yeah but by that time Nintendo will make their next system and the Chinese had been coming close to making quality products now. Some of them folks who made these cheap SD card were the same folks who work the real ones. They are all made from China after all.

I bought a 200GB when I got my Switch at launch. I believe I paid 100$ for it then. By the time I'm thinking I need more space, which I may never, that 400GB card will cost a lot less. Glad to see they are continually getting bigger.

Great but nearly the price of a switch means I wouldn't purchase it.
I bought a 128gb from ebay for a fraction of that price!

More space is always welcome, but for now 128 is enough and 256 is more than enough. Switch games are not that large. The latest Mario cross over was 2.8.

I'll stick with physical copies so the internal storage is plenty for me.

Already got a pair of 128 gb micro sd cards for $10 each. I think I'll be fine

So far so good with my 128GB card, plus I tend to take out the memory trash, so it's rare I run out of space that much. Perhaps by the time enough of these 256 and 400GB micro SD cards hit circulation, the price will be nice and low and I'll upgrade.

I'll pick this up next year when my 256 runs out of space. :3

This is great, too expensive now but the more of these that are produced the cheaper smaller cards will get and the sooner these will be cheaper.

Hmm I would recommend that nobody buys this.

I wish Nintendo would let you use a external Hard Drive in docked mode, because I already own a 1TB that I could use with it, also why would they put usb ports on the dock?

So Unbelievable how they can have 400 GB on this. I still remember floppy disks with 360KB and how amazing the 1.44 MB were. 👍

@Angelic_Lapras_King Surprisingly I actually reached that limit. But only because I was literally trying to and I had downloaded every demo that existed at the time. When I finally hit the limit I was trying to download a Gameboy game or something and it told me I had no more space, even though it would have easily fit on the card.

I kept the console maxed out up until I upgraded to a 3DS XL. At that point I decided not to transfer over any demos because that would have taken years...

I'm pretty sure I have a 64 gig card in there that I got for $10 on Black Friday. 64 gigs is basically infinite storage on the 3DS...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074RNRM2B/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

£60 discount in amazon black friday deal, so now £169 approx.

Grab em while they are hot.