Will You Be Clearing Up Some Space For The Switch Version Of Apex Legends?

I have no space left to install not even Pacman! These 1GB cards prices have to drop fast!

That's a sizeable download but not really an issue. A larger file size at least suggests that it won't be heavily compressed, so that's good.

I bought a 128GB card with my Switch. Upgraded to a 512GB and recently made the jump to 1TB. Hopefully we'll see some 2TB cards hit the market in the next couple years.

I think I have a 256G card
it was like 40 bucks or something
not even close to filling that up

At this point, I´d be surprised if there´s still someone without a SD card in their Switch.
A pity, but it´s what it is.

That’s large. I will definitely give it a try. I’m not the biggest battle royal fan but love FPS. Will give it a try for sure.

@MontyCircus unfortunately the switch is only compatible with cards up to 1TB, which I think they said from the start of production, not sure if this is something they can update either but I may be wrong

Yeah, right. I technically have the eShop-listed space - cleared up over 20 Gb of different games to make room for Skyforge only to promptly finish the 18-Gb Observer afterwards.😄 But I'm not in a mood for freemium battle royales in general these days, so this one will just get tossed into the library like Vigor before it.

I have plenty of other candidates for that space even in and of themselves, from the already obtained RER2 (18-something Gb) and Bioshock Infinite (20 Gb) to the wishlisted specimen like Immortals and The Last Remnant (both in the vicinity of 15 Gb). Not to mention somewhat smaller and estimatedly more impending memory munchers like 3D All-Stars pack after I'm through with Yoshi's Island.

@DanTee it's 2 Tb, actually, so nowhere near the ceiling yet, seeing as even 1 Tb cards are barely in the market yet.

I will likely archive a couple of games to try this version out. At launch the xbox version ran from 8GB install with potato textures, so up to 30GB suggests they don't have a big problem with Textures. Fairly sure Apex is around 60GB on final install on Xbox one.

Good for those who want this but for me no thank you I’m a single player offline kinda guy xxx

That's a pretty "haha" file size for a game that looks this visually anonymous.

I do have space for it, (400GB SD card) but I just don't play online games outside of Tetris. ^^

@nhSnork ah cool! Thanks for clarifying, I have a 512GB card that Is full but 1TB cards are still far too expensive...

@MontyCircus They have 1TB Switch cards?

@redpanda0310 yes current micro sd cards go up to 1tb.

@DanTee 2tb should be possible, they said "up to 1tb" because nothing bigger was on it's way back then.

Current SDXC standard used for micro sd cards does allow up to 2tb, anything above it means we need a different method to support them (SDUC goes from 2TB up to 128TB, the reason this standard does exist is because we are near the limit of SDXC)

It's like back in the days with SDHC, that goes up to 32gb. However all this is based on a hardware level so even if 4TB micro sd cards would come out, Switch would not support them because they would not be using the SDXC standaard.

Guess i have to start deleting some games then

@redpanda0310 Absolutely. They're not Nintendo branded, I got a 1TB SanDisk SD card off Amazon.com Canadian Amazon and Canadian BestBuy don't have them yet, so I had to get it shipped internationally.

Possibly, the game is pretty fun and I want to see how it runs (and looks) on Switch.

@Rayquaza2510 Woahh and my computer has a c h o n k y hard drive that gives it 4tb and a teeny micro sd can hold 128 tb? Geez I guess I need to update

Nope. Can’t stand this type of game.

After having it on my Pc, Ps5 and Xbox One X, I think I'll pass on the switch version.
it released way too late for me to give a damn about it.

Glad to see this game making its rounds on Switch. For me, the hype has died down. I was desperate to play this game when it launched years ago. In 2021, not so much... My back catalogue is bigger than it’s ever been and I just don’t have the time to spend on a game like this. Cheers to all that enjoy it, though!

What fps are they targeting?

No. Tried it on ps4 and didn’t like it. I guess I am not a shooter guy.

@DanTee

I don't see how anyone could need more than 1TB, are these people seriously buying every available game on the entire eShop?

External HDD and SSD compatibility. I'm just sayin'. 🤷‍♀️

@geox30 Do you mean 1TB? I don't know if they even make 1GB cards anymore.

Yeah no. I'll pass

@RasandeRose A lot of first party games have huge download files so maybe that? I have a 128 gb card and it's still not even close to halfway full, but I don't game constantly.

That 128gb microSD card is WAY TOO expensive. I bought a regular, SanDisk one at Costco for just $35 CAD, and it includes a USB adapter and SD adapter.

I will not play this Game.

@theriku260

Very few Switch games reach the sizes of 20-30GB.
You would actually fit around at least 30 games at ~20-30GB on an 1TB card. More realistic, with the file sizes more commonly is at best about half that, you would easy fit like 60 games on a 1TB card. I have a very hard time seeing how any one could really need a bigger memory card than 256 GB.

nope, not my kind of game

Another downside of an all digital future,rears it's ugly head. Companies have managed to pass on storage costs to us lol! Booo. I want to play this. Looks like I'm buying an SD card for it. (I'm sure this would be cheaper for me if they released a physical...but anyway)

lol not a chance would I clear space for this.

I have 313 gb free space. Managed to get a 1tb Card in an Amazon sale.
Have +200 games all digital.
Having that many quality games, portable, without having to swap memory / games card, is fantastic.

The big hitters I have (size):
NBA 2K20: 41.3 gb
The Witcher 3: 31.3 gb
LA Noire: 27.4 gb
Res Evil Revelations 2: 23.6 gb
Doom: 21.9 gb

I don't really like br games so no.

@Savino I'm in exactly the same situation, 32GB of internal storage was woefully short sighted by Nintendo, but then again, so is 1TB from Sony and Microsoft seemingly when a lot of AAA games are starting to clock up triple figure install size

I am going to play this game too. It shant begin!

No place for free pvp games on my switch that’s just not my kind of game😜

@RasandeRose I'm sure there are plenty of people, myself included that need more space, especially as the consoles lifespan has gone on and we've seen bigger and more demanding ports coming over. I have around 170 switch games, 120 of them are digital, and I've just filled my 512GB card,

I’m guessing you’re just over exaggerating and joking. If not, you’re way off. I have some big install games like Borderlands 2, Warframe, Alien Isolation that are in the 20’s for GB’s. Those take around 1.5hrs or less to install and I don’t even have an incredible internet speed. @superderper

@RasandeRose

I need a 2TB micro SD card like last year, son. Expand your imagination.

No.

Not interested in battle royale games at all so I'll pass on this

No for me. If splatoon was only an online shooter, I wouldn't have gotten into it. Splatoon is the only online shooter I've ever gotten into.

I'll continue to plug away at soccar/football with rocket powered cars, aka the Rocket Leagues.

Thankfully got the 512gb SD card recently so I'm good to go, plus I buy as many physical games as possible.

No. got this on ps4..

bought a 200 gb card with my switch in 2017, since a few months started deleting... not sure what's the best way to go forward now... (not want to be dependent on nintendo's shop availability in the end).. should have bought a 1tb card when I bought my GoPro 6 months ago for diving , and used the 200 gb for that..

@DanTee

Well, I don't think anyone needs 170 games installed att the same time. But mb youre collecting for the end of the world?

Would be great if Nintendo made a system that actually had a lot of storage space instead of a mere 32 GB in the system. I mean botw and this game would eat up half of that lol one game. The only options are to archive games and reinstall them purchase a gb card to use more storage.

I just bought a 128GB card a few months ago...and then promptly filled it up with most of my backlog and, more recently, the Bioshock Collection.

Bring it on! Been waiting for a game to make a dent in my 256G Card. Woohoo. Hope this game is fun

I was getting annoyed with having to move things around constantly on my switch. I just checked and realize that I only have a 64 GB SD card in there. So now I decided to upgrade to a 512 GB card.

I still won't be downloading Apex legends though.

I have 4 cards. Two 400s and two 200s. I really wish I could have everything on one card. :/

@DanTee nope, switch hardware is compatible with cards up to 2tb even though they don't exist yet. If you think "I could be wrong but...." Don't post something on the internet.

@GrailUK but.... It's a free game? If they released it physically it would be to be a cost of some kind, and not only that but these live service games get updated so often that the data on the cartridge would be obsolete by the time they arrived in stores.

@Stormcloudlive Switch is only compatible with, SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards, which only support capacity up to 2TB, so a 3TB card isn't possible. Above 2TB you go to a SDUC card, which isn't supported. So my comment isn't coming from complete ignorance, but thanks for the tip anyway.

@Stormcloudlive I know. It's a weird dilemma. Maybe if it was the cost of the cart and gave us the game free? Sure, it gets updated, but at least it saves on our storage. Happy medium. Sorted.

Not that interested really. But my friend loves it so I may get it to play with them.

@Judgedean I don't think it is confirmed yet, but I'm 95% certain it will be 30 fps.

No I will not, I don’t want APEX.

@GrailUK but the cartridge wouldn't be able to update the information on it, the patches would need to be saved to your system storage so you would end up with a useless cartridge and all the information of the current version on your sd card anyways.

@DanTee reading is hard?

@Stormcloudlive Surely an update isn't 30Gb a time? The Switch file size has to have a base game in there somewhere right?

@RasandeRose it's not about a total of games owned, it's about how many of them you can conveniently have at your fingertips. I've been spoiled by this convenience ever since my acquaintance with romsets and flash cards myself, so I can relate to the FWP in question.😄

@GrailUK except for cases like Waframe's occasional updates recently. They've been almost the size of the game due to restructuring certain environment, effects and texture data; since the intentional upsides of this procedure include reducing the end file size, it ended up being ironically easier to just uninstall the whole thing and redownload anew.

At this point I'm done with battleroyale games. Way too much just walking around doing nothing. But for those who like BR style games I'd say this is one of the better ones, and since it's free you should totally give it a shot! It's also very talented studio porting it to Switch so you should expect a quality port, but it's still a Switch so be realistic with your expectations-

I upgraded to a 1 TB in 2019. Best decision/investment I made. Still got at least 60GB left

Free to play you say? And battle royal style? Microtransactions?

Wow all the things I hate and in one big gigantic download! Lol. No thanks, not for me.

Didn’t this game drop players hard after streamer contracts ended?

No thanks. Do I have to say more?

Apparently yes.
It’s still a No... no matter how much you make me type.

I'll be having to get a new MicroSD card, but it'll be worth it.

I don't need to clear space. I have s 512 gb sd that have 200 gb free.

@geox30 I’m not sure what you can fit in a 1GB card these days

I don't care about Battle royale games or most non Nintendo games these days, but I'm nearly 30 and that could be why. I'm still happy that this game and Fortnite came to Switch cause they are popular and gamers of various ages love them. That file definitely is a huge one. Reminds me of when I got Mortal Kombat 11 physically and still needed nearly 30 gigs to download it to play story mode. Then I got the Aftermath dlc that also included all future dlc and that meant more space, lol. I didn't mind it cause I do love MK. I have 15 gigs left of available space from a 512 GB Micro SD card.

I’m ready! I was born ready!

I think this is a bit of a problem, it's nearly the exact same size as the PC version. It couldn't have killed them to compress it even a little?

@RasandeRose I'm picking one up just in case. Probably won't use all of it anytime soon, but it's nice to not have to worry about storage space.

@geox30
1 Gig?

@Marioman2020
Yes, my budget is pretty low.

@geox30
Ok.

I'll take a try at it for the first time. The price is right, after all. However, if there is no native chat on Switch like Fortnite has, I'll be skipping it. No point if I can't talk to friends online.

I have the space so I will try it out on the switch. I have been playing alot on ps4 so.

No.

Moving swiftly on...

Apex is pretty fun. The Respawn guys are a talented lot.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA NO

sticking with pc. not necessary having me to own it on switch.
everyone have fun with the game

No, didn't really enjoy it on PC. Plus I'm waiting on two games to arrive in the mail, so I'll need the space for them

@the_beaver people who buy mostly physical games and the occasional digital indie game (usually under 1 gb) but I'm the target demographic for this game (even if I did play it I'd play it on ps5.) So take that for what you will lol

F*ck all chance of that happening. Titanfall 2? I will clear space for that.

I dont see the point in downloading these big games to the Switch. They are online only, so I would rather have them without the portable downgrades if I'm stuck in the house to play.

All these people listing their games and file sizes in bizarrely specific replies that nobody needed.

Will I be making space for Apex Legends? No. Give the Switch some Star Wars games EA/Respawn, you bunch of hacks.

Once again, first thing I imagine is Edmund going “....Nah!” From Ep 5 of Blackadder Goes Forth.

@JoeyTS I hope not. Massive unfair advantage to the 60+ FPS players when cross matching platforms. I’m hoping they have a performance 720p 60fps mode for the Switch.

@Judgedean

Xbox One is 35-60fps at 648-720p.
I take it Switch tops out at 30fps720p with reduced asset quality. Ill probably just try it out as its free, but Im curious to see how they manage to fit a not-that-well running Xbox/PS4 game on Switch. If Xbox One goes down to sub-720p, I wouldn't be surprised if the Switch version goes all the way down to 480p or even lower...

what's fun in playing a heavily competitive game on switch (excluding the obvious first party releases)? The switch online isn't that great for that, the network hardware on switch kindda sucks, especially the wifi chip, even with the adapter it's still not all great.

Playing this on switch, you're stuck at home and can't play outside, so the portability argument has no weight for this release. That's without taking in consideration the usual massive downgrade in quality and very unstable framerate. The OG xbox one can't keep up with this game, it's only gonna be worst on switch. And a competitive Online shooter at 30fps WITH drops is a turn off for me.

If i'm gonna play a competitive shooter on switch, it needs to be 60fps.

That's a good file size - so much gets squeezed on Switch to the point of it looking like garbage. That's around the size it is on Ps4.

I find these incredibly generic. Isn't there another one by EA known as Anthem? I know that was by Bioware but is it much different?

its 18 GB rn on switch