In the US, Amazon is currently hosting a pretty cracking sale on memory and storage solutions that are perfect for your Nintendo Switch or PC setup. If you're looking to expand your storage to keep hold of all your downloaded games, now's a perfect time.
We've got a full guide to the best MicroSD cards for your Nintendo Switch (hit that link to see lots of cards you can choose from as well as all the info you need on choosing the right one for your needs), but we've rounded up Amazon's current discounts for you below.
MicroSD Cards for Nintendo Switch
Several discounts have appeared and some of them are actually better than those spotted during Amazon's last Prime Day sale. That 1TB card is particularly tempting if you're based in the US.
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External Hard Drives
There are also a couple of huge external hard drives available at great prices. These 5TB and 8TB storage solutions aren't compatible with Nintendo Switch, but can be used with your Wii U and PC, or even PlayStation and Xbox devices – blasphemy on this site, we know.
Let us know if any of these prices have tempted you into a purchase, and don't forget to keep tabs on our MicroSD card guide for all the best deals.
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I would get a 1TB Scandisk Nintendo License one if they were available, but probably better it's not, for the wallet, that is.
Got my 1tb for $109 last black Friday. 😝
1tb has been sitting at 139 for a while tho.
Not listed in this article is a 512GB SanDisk Ultra for £49.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GXXKY6P
That's about what I paid for the same unit back on Black Friday and is nearly a historic low for this model.
https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B08GXXKY6P
It's also worth pointing out that the Nintendo Switch's microSD slot isn't very high performance, so it won't benefit from the added speed the Extreme model can offer.
@Judgedean
There's no point in buying the Nintendo branded ones anyway, they are functionally identical to the other SanDisk cards and cost a lot more.
@Jbuggydroid Give it time, the price will decrease as the tech improves and higher capacity cards are introduced. It's kinda crazy to watch the prices of SD cards from year to year, that same 128GB micro SD card for $15, used to cost like $100 only like 6 or 7 years ago.
@duffmmann
Yeah, the gradual drop in microSD and Flash storage over time is amazing, a 32GB microSD in 2015 cost me £27, you can get that for around £8 now.
These permanent price drops tend to come around Black Friday and reflect the price trend going forward.
Alternative title: Time to upgrade the Steam Deck you don’t have!
@RupeeClock The Offical Nintendo license makes it better especially with Nintendo related pictures printed on them.
@Judgedean
They're only licensed, not made by Nintendo.
The appearance won't even matter when you plug the card in and forget about it.
@Judgedean As someone with a picture of a star nestled deep within my Switch, I get it. But I got it with a sale that made the price effectively the same as the standard Sandisk. That picture is only worth so many of my dollars.
@RupeeClock I'm only joking with you. I thought the emoji gave that away. Oh, and I would still get a 1TB license one if available - but hey, got to make the offical license thing worth something (but even I have a limit if the price gets too crazy - I'm not rich like Will Smith).
@Nontendo_4DS I've got 4 different memory cards for my switch at the moment all full up with games, and I still only have at most half the games I own actually downloaded. I can't download any new game without first deleting a few others. So it's very tempting, this 1TB one. Eventually I'm gonna have to buy a whole heap of blank micro SD cards, and make sure to download every single game I own onto them, which will take days or organisation because I'll wanna put them in alphabetical order so I can know which one has which games. So I'll have to delete all the games and then begin redownloading each one
It's why I buy games physical if I can. Because then I'm not screwed over when the e-shop servers get taken down eventually.
It's different with something like Steam, for example, where once you own the game, you can download it on any future PC you have at no extra cost. It'll never go away, the Steam server farm.
Unless Nintendo decides that for their next console they'll allow people to carry all the games they already have, for free, like I believe is what happens with xbox and PlayStation, they don't have to buy ports of games a 2nd time, for the new console, because the games are tied to an ACCOUNT and not the specific console. But Nintendo aren't smart enough to do something sensible and pro-consumer like that
Already got a 1tb need more slots or 2-4tb cards common Sandisk.......
Keep an eye on Western Digital’s page. They’ll have these on special there too. The 1TB is totally worth it for that price. Just wish there’d be something beyond it.
If U.K. gets a deep discount on 1tb I’m in. I have a 512 but have my eye on a 1tb
@RupeeClock As someone who began to purchase SD cards for the Wii and DS Lite, the degree to which the the price and size of SD storage has improved since those days really is incredible. Unless there was a super black Friday sale or something, just getting a 64 or 128 GB card was definitely far outside of my budget at that time.
I do wonder if tech's very long, almost entirely unimpeded decades of trend of increased value of things like memory, TVs, video games, and the like will be able to keep pace with the global rate of inflation. Even if price/value would remain stagnant, the higher cost of living could still diminish a lot of people's ability to indulge in these items (and the ongoing chips shortages across the entire industry probably aren't helping).
I guess all we can do is hope that the long trajectory of constant-innovation-at-lower-costs-to-the-consumer the market isn't too disrupted too, too much.
@RupeeClock you say no point buying the Nintendo branded cards but I got the 128GB card back in September for £15, and if I remember correct the larger cards were cheap too. I totally agree that at full price they're a rip of but in a sale more than worth it. Plus they look cool
@Laserbeak1982
Maybe Nintendo started pricing their licensed microSD cards more competitively then? They were notorious for being needlessly expensive.
Nintendo's UK Store still lists the 128GB microSD for £34.99 anyway.
Is there a noticeable difference in game loading between all the different microSD read speeds, like the licensed read speed, Ultra, Extreme, etc?
And I understand the pull of officially licensed cards, since I would love that Pikachu MicroSD card... or the Pokeball one
@Ulysses
https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/best-nintendo-switch-micro-sd-cards-cheapest-memory-cards-in-2022#what-speed-micro-sd-card-should-i-buy
"At the moment, speed isn't really worth considering when you purchase a micro SD card for your Nintendo Switch. The reason for this is that the Switch only supports UHS-1 cards, which max out at 104MB/s in terms of speed. The UHS-2 types are three times faster, with a 312MB/s speed but that's irrelevant as the Switch doesn't currently support them."
This means that the Nintendo Switch cannot take advantage of the full speed that a SanDisk Extreme microSD card can offer, so you would be better off getting an Ultra instead.
Unless maybe you were planning to later re-use that microSD in a different device down the line.
Nintendo could've always put a decent amount of storage in the new oled model I know they doubled it from 32gb to 64gb but that's still nothing by today's standards
@RupeeClock Thank you for the explanation! Much appreciated.
Do you think it's possible for a simple software update to make the higher read speeds available in the future? If the limitation is baked into the Switch's hardware, then I don't see any need to purchase the Extreme microSD's.
I'll be getting my first 1tb microSD card once my Steam Deck arrive. I'm after Q2 so this will be a long but worthwhile wait.
@Ulysses
The Switch's microSD read speed would most likely be a hardware limitation that'll never increase through a software update.
I wouldn't completely rule it out, the Wii was originally limited to reading 2GB SD cards until a firmware update added support for 32GB SDHC cards.
I desperately need sandisk to make a 2TB misco sd card! Mt 1TB has been full for at least a year now. Anybody know when we'll see one?
WOW considering I got my 512GB card for 35 bucks during a Xmas sale on Amazon. This isn’t that great.
But I was wondering how everybody else manages their Data?
Does one Archive the game after completion?
@KnightRider666 "I desperately need sandisk to make a 2TB misco sd card! Mt 1TB has been full for at least a year now. Anybody know when we'll see one?"
Same boat. I am very close to a full 1TB. I keep googling around and it sounds like so few people worldwide have bought a 1TB that there's no market for a 2TB.
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