Hardware Was Nintendo reasonable for only including 256GB internal storage?

[Jayro]

I play mostly Switch 1 games on my Switch 2, in wait for good Switch 2 games... But with that said, I'm a cartridge person. So I only have updates and DLC on my internal storage, and the few digital goodies like the NSO stuff. So for me, I can live just fine with the 256GB internal storage until I run out. Which will be a while.

 

[Marc_LFD]

So, did you see the Steam Deck price increase?

Yes, Nintendo was wise to include 256GB. Otherwise the system would be unpayable.

Switch 2 is an overall better deal than the Steam Deck. I just don't get why they'd do this to themselves, sales are going to shrink.

 

[VmprHntrD]

Up until I threw Resident Evil's triple pack at it, I had quite a lot of space, and I still too as I got one of those 512GB cards for 1/2 price when that famous foul up happened. Most my games aren't key cards, some are, but outside of just a few most are because they were too small to pay for a stupid 64GB card, but that is largely over outside of greedy controlling companies and I don't have to support that.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Switch 2 is an overall better deal than the Steam Deck. I just don't get why they'd do this to themselves, sales are going to shrink.

For all we know, they are discontinuing it, and the price increase is to get whatever they can from remaining units.

 

[codezer0]

256GB feels so small these days that I ended up buying a 256GB Express SD so adding both together, my console has around 500GB total (379GB free). So no, not really.

I did buy a 512GB Express SD card, haven't used it yet.

It reminds me of Apple's Mac Book Neo, it has 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. It's like both of them are including the bare minimum as they know it'll sell.

1000% it was Nintendo being a cheapskate on the subject.

If there is anyone with more manufacturing influence than Apple, it is Nintendo.

 

[Renos44]

1000% it was Nintendo being a cheapskate on the subject.

If there is anyone with more manufacturing influence than Apple, it is Nintendo.

Actually no

When it comes to sourcing silicon and what fabs prioritize or make big deals with. Nintendo is towards the low end.
The big players would be
Nvidia
Apple
Samsung (While yes Samsung own their own fabs Samsung electronics still has to buy from Samsung Foundry)
Microsoft
Google
AMD

These get most of the manufacturing priority. Then currently a lot of manufacturing is going to AI datacenter construction then everyone else fight over whats left. While nintendo can have more sway than say Valve. There nowhere near close to the sway Apple has.