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[A Black Falcon]

The rumors right now say it'll support up to 128GB SD cards. And I would call that a big concern, because that's not much at all considering how big games are now! Even if the Switch won't have too much from third parties, most major AAA games now are at least 30GBs each, and some are much larger -- the new CoD game is 120GB for example, with Modern Warfare Remastered of course. If Switch games are even 30GB each on the high end, that's a huge chunk of the memory of any SD card. Yes, you can buy physical, and here that will matter since those will be on dedicated cards (as opposed to just having to install them, as is the case on the PS4 and XONE), but still, that is a very small amount of space considering how big games are. Even if Switch games were only similar to a one-DVD title, 4-8GBs each, 120GB will not last long, never mind the even smaller internal memory. Maybe for people who only want to have like five games on their system at once this won't matter, but for someone like me that would get very expensive, very fast, and I'm not buying piles of 128GB SD cards, they cost quite a bit last I checked! Of course, the only solution to this would be hard drive support, something which could not work with the system undocked, but even that restriction would be better than "SD or cards only".

On a related note, while I know it has slower speeds than the internal drive, since my X360's 500GB internal drive is almost full now, I'm thinking about getting an external drive for it. Slower speeds are better than deleting lots of stuff!

As for Switch games, yeah, if Mario really is available at launch, I'd be okay with another Zelda delay... but they can't delay it forever, and it's seen multiple long delays now. Hopefully it does release next year.


Meanwhile, NVidia is saying that porting to the Switch will be easy since it has familiar hardware to other modern platforms: http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/16/nvidia...is-simple/ (but you'll ned to fit it into the limited memory of a Switch card or not-huge SD card...)