Deals: Huge Micro SD Card Discounts Appear In Early Black Friday Sales

@JohnnyMind That's where I'm at. I bought a spacious external hard drive for my Wii U, and then they released the Switch.

@JohnnyMind On amazon.de the 1.5tb micro sd is 96€
Don't know if there are shipping costs to italy though

I had to start trimming down my library when I still had a 500 GB microSD, then redownloaded everything when I upgraded to a 1 TB. But now I'm running out of space again. Hopefully I'll be able to last until the next console launch just by cutting out demos and free-to-play games.

I had planned to swap cards back and forth with different games on each when I got my second SD card over a year ago but in practice, I don’t bother doing so. And now my larger second card is full too.

@JSC016 If you pay attention to what you buy you may be able to understand how microSD card works. Remember storage is not the only thing you should look for, read/write speed is also given in the product description too. Just look at these three microSD cards, two of those are 1.5tb and one is 1.0tb but if you read the description the PNY one is actually at 200mb/s while the SanDisk one is at 150mb/s while the Extreme one could go up to 190mb/s. Those numbers tell you how fast you could move/transfer and how fast data loads/process when upload onto those.

Now don't get me wrong, even with higher numbers some of those cards could still be slower when it comes to playing games on them than if you would had when your games installed via the internal hard drive itself but when it comes to moving data around or loading text and data within games, it may be faster. It really depends if you prefer more storage and slower read/write speed or you want faster read/write and decent storage.

Also pay attention to the C10 there on the card also, the bigger that number the more likely that microSD card won't corrupt on your device, if you buy one that had a much lower number like C3 or C5 then that means those microSD cards are prone to data corruption easily. They are not reliable, that also doesn't mean the C10 card won't corrupt either, it just means it will take longer for that one to corrupt if not handle properly. The U3 ones are way up there and won't corrupt on your device so those are more reliable than the C10 or any C# ones. If anything I recommend the U# ones. This is why you don't want to buy any cheap microSD card from places like AliExpress, Temu, or eBay cause a majority of those don't label those numbers or if they do they fake labeled it.

This is the kind of error message you will get if you bought a microSD card with lower C#. Data corruption are prone to happen if the microSD card is not handle properly meaning if you constantly take the card out while it's still processing data transfer or saving application to the ram. It could also corrupt if you put data files on there to which they don't belong to run on the device for example pictures of different file extension which your device doesn't support or you put PC digital games on your card when your device only accept Switch digital games.

Oh I hope Switch 2 has an ssd option.

Sd cards were fine for the Switch but I'm utterly spoiled by ssd loading times.

Bingo! Finally upgraded my Switch Micro SD to 1 TB, from 512GB. The old card will be on garden leave until Switch 2 debuts.

Sure hope the 2TB Pokemon card is a Wailord.

I’m a discerning techie and therefore only buy SD cards with a Snorlax on it.

I don't pre-buy flash storage ahead of when I actively need it, since the price per GB continually goes down year over year.

My current 512 GB microSD card can handle all of my Switch's digital games, including anything I buy in the next six to twelve months.

We don't know what sort of expanded storage a Switch successor will take. It's possible that for next gen exclusives or fast load times, you will need NVMe, or at least really fast microSD.

If your current card is almost full and anticipated to continue growing, now might be the time to buy something that doubles its capacity. Otherwise, HOLD!

Got a 1.5TB card a while back and have been extremely impressed.

This is a must get if you you are a huge collector or primarily digital buyer. Thinking of picking one up for eventual Switch 2 release...

@JSC016

If I'm not mistaken all SD cards load a bit slower than the internal memory since it has a "longer" path to travel if you get what I mean. The internal NAND has an almost direct connection to the APU so it will always be faster.

With that said, I never found it noticeable. I'm probably going to get a 1 TB card this Christmas and move my games over to it cause I've finally filled up the 256 gig card I bought with my Switch back in 2019 and I've had to delete a few games.

I can carry it forward since they confirmed Switch 2 to have full BC.

I’ve seen 2-tera cards starting to appear, but unsurprisingly they’re not coming down for Black Friday. I’ll keep shoving shrap aside until one becomes manageable on a Pay-In-3.

Hmmm. I think I’m actually about to get a Switch…Maybe I should look to get one of these…

@Anachronism

That's exactly my own experience. I would love to grab one of those 1.5 TB cards. But then I think that I'll way until next year, they won't get more expensive after all and I don't desperately need to have all my library in memory.

I would never buy an SD card from Amazon again. They are knowingly and happily selling counterfeit cards (it's a 64GB card that says it's 1TB and has faked SanDisk packaging and everything) and even letting the fakes pay to have their cards featured. The cards will report to your device that they're 1TB or higher, write speeds are pressed way down, and the only way to find out if they're a fake is to run a lengthy test using special software to test the read and write of every bit of the card. Don't risk it.

Maybe so, but that’s what Amazon’s return policy is for.

I have a 1.5tb for my Switch... and I'm ready for the 2tb... XD

I've actually managed with a 256 GB this gen. I've got most of the big time Nintendo games and some 2nd and 3rd parties thrown I there also.

Mostly gaming on my PS5, PS Portal and since around 2 months ago my Xbox Series S. Still gotta beat Paper Mario TTYD and Zelda Wisdom. Only played each of those probably around 10 hours each because so many great games coming out.

2TB SanDisk micro sd cards are out now.
$210 USD

That's the limit that's possible for storage on the Switch. Only problem is, we don't know anything about memory storage on the Switch 2 yet. Will it even take micro sd cards? etc.

I wouldn't buy any MicroSD card upgrade before we know is the Switch 2 has MicroSD card support.
We know that it will be backwards compatible with Switch games so my plan is to eventually migrate all my games over to the Switch 2.

But MicroSD storage is pretty slow for games, it was OK on the Switch but still pretty slow.
I am hoping that Nintendo will ditch the MicroSD support and embrace M.2 like PS5 and the Steam Deck (yeah I know the Steam Deck also has MicroSD, but it's still slow)

If the "Switch 2" has both then that would be cool, but it would also make for a more expensive device and that doesn't seem like the Nintendo way of doing things.