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

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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.
 
FernandoRocker said:
So, did you see the Steam Deck price increase?

Yes, Nintendo was wise to include 256GB. Otherwise the system would be unpayable.
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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.
 
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.
 
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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.
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For all we know, they are discontinuing it, and the price increase is to get whatever they can from remaining units.
 
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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.
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1000% it was Nintendo being a cheapskate on the subject.

If there is anyone with more manufacturing influence than Apple, it is Nintendo.
 
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1000% it was Nintendo being a cheapskate on the subject.

If there is anyone with more manufacturing influence than Apple, it is Nintendo.
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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.
 
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Ignoring the ai and price increases of memory, I think Nintendo actually made a clever decision so go with SD Express cards, mainly because nvme drives are just bigger, plus do you expect a 5 year old kid or a confused parent to buy one and put one in? Specially how the switch 2 would have to be bigger to actually hold it

SD express cards have been around for a long time but only the switch 2 used them enough to push demand, before it was mainly used in cameras for recording 4k footage, RAW images and all that sorta thing

So yea, people hate them and it’s stupid but it’s the best of both 🤷‍♂️
 
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Marc_LFD said:
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.
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I think they should have included 512gb but that’s just me. I also bought a 512 gb micro sd express card and the whole system is already full.
 
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512 would have been nice, but they had a budget to keep within and likely at the time saw the writing on the wall given how they have to share resources with far more priority companies on what would make sense to keep a budget in check. I think at all costs they wanted to avoid going over 500 a system, but then the Ai shitshow hit the fan and now it's up there, and could have been $50 over that as it is now which really would have sucked.
 
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Since when has Nintendo ever been reasonable`.
Ever since the NES days theyve been irrational, strange and litigous.
The only good thing they ever did... was just not being as bad as Sony right now or as incompetent as Microsoft.
... Nintendo wins by default
 
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Well I'd argue that Nintendo getting legal on people largely over time has been a net positive. Maybe not so obvious to those who align with those they've gone after but big picture given what has happened in various places of the world where they've been less legal, dismissive, or ignoring of issues have cost them. I don't like their IP gooning at times, but being more in control has kept things in a better space than opening door to future problems. They have wanted to sell not at a loss at the detriment of having lesser powerful hardware, being overly stubborn, or cutting corners on some form of storage or another where it bit them in the ass. N64 not having CDs, the mini-dvds of cube, the crap hole WiiU entirely (on a non-hacked level) are good examples.

That said, their charm is their weird irrationality and strangeness along with the creativity of some of their workers because their IP is their most valuable walled garden of an asset.
 

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