In addition to the original games and updates of Switch who swallow precious storage, Switch 2 also sees the addition of gamecube titles to the retro library available for Nintendo Switch online subscribers + Expansion Pack. Like the classic games available for previous consoles such as Nes, SNES or Game Boy, these are all packaged in a pitcher, with each game of the respective collection installed at the same time.
It is good for the SNES collection, with about 80 titles crammed in a 267 MB package to a nightless barely, who does it care if there is a group that you will never play? Yet with only four titles currently available (F-Zero, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Soulcalibur IIAND Strikers Super Mario), NSO GameCube is already a commitment of 6 GB. The original gamecube records could only contain 1.5 GB, so each addition will see that the launcher requires more and more space and any unwanted game could prevent you from installing something else you want to play. Although this influences only on NSO subscribers that use the GameCube library, the freedom to choose which gamecube games are installed would be of great help.
The problem with the solution
The good news is that Switch 2 still allows users to expand the storage via microSD cards. Problem solved: simply hit a massive capacity card, right? Not entirely. Switch 2 only It supports microSD Express format cards. There is a good reason for this – the new standard offers reading and writing much faster data, allowing games to load faster, but the rule causes problems.
One is the cost. MicroSD Express cards cost more for GB of storage space than their predecessors. At the time of drafting, a SanDisk 128 GB The card is $ 17While his MicroSD Express format with 2 compatible Switch is $ 54 for the same storage amount—A 3x Premium. Another is the capacity of the paper. There are a handful of 1-ta-market microSD Express cards on the market, but the supplies are carefree and the prices are astronomical. Although you can technically use more microSD cards with the console, Nintendo Advice against itSo exchanging several smaller cards is not even an option.
More confused, the SD Express format refers only to speed, not to the ability, which has its own standards. Most of the microSD cards that probably buy, whether they are in the explicit speed format or not, are standard “extended SD” or SDXC capacity. These can theoretically contain a maximum of 2 TB of data, although the largest legitimate card that you will probably find for sale is 1.5 TB.
However, in 2018, the SD Association – the body of the sector that establishes the standards for SD memory cards—Presentation of the ultra SD capacity introducedor Sduc. This supports capabilities up to an incredible 128 TB, “regardless of the form factor, micro or full size or interface, including […] SD Express. “There are still no Sduc cards on the market, so we are very far from the possibility of slapping” even “an 8 TB card in your Switch 2 and installing everything you could dream.