Deals: Amazon's MicroSD Card Sale Is The Perfect Opportunity To Get More Storage For Your Switch (US)

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.

@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.

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 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

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

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.

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.