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Various eShop software download sizes for Nintendo Switch games
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Japanmanx3
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I stated that the convienice is now modernized with the MyNintendo account and the Switch. Now it is. No it wasn't the easiest but it definitely wasn't impossible. You aren't losing things forever as you yourself stated in the post I quoted.
Also for any major electronic device or appliance you should keep a record of your serial number. That's common sense. That's the first thing you'll need to tell the police and provide to insurance if something was lost or stolen...Why you think that falls on Nintendo to tell you is weird...
They cant afford to make it hold 128GB or more without making the system cost $400+. Even if they did, you would still end up getting an SD card anyway if you planned on going digital.
Candescence
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This is the saddest attempt at goalpost moving I've ever seen. If Sony had a similar device to the Switch, their proprietary memory would be far more expensive and thus make it more expensive to buy external storage compared to the Switch and would still have the same problem with game sizes.
Not sure why some GAFers are amazed. The 3DS came with a 2GB card that kinda pushes you to buy a bigger card if you want all digital. I expect SD cards to start dropping in price this year. Already 128GB aren't that expensive but I expect 256GB or 512GB card will be cheap 2017-2018. Not sure why people need more storage. I rarely used 50GB on my 2TB PS4 drive. I stream movies on Netflix or buy physical when there dirt cheap on BF. Games well, to each their own but I prefer all physical.
Spukc
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Well if the stock storage is below 32GB
DONT BUY DIGITAL.
I own about 50 physical disc games for my day 1 500gb ps4. I can play about 10 of them whenever i want.
It makes no sense owning those discs.
Since i have to install them and download huuge patches on their snailmail servers.
(I know they finally support external hdd but that still costs money)
My 3ds has about 4GB on storage.
However i own 40+ 3ds games
Which i can all play by simply plugging the game in.
Some games have extremely small patches.
The switch also supports cartridges so i really dont get your problem...
Nintendo has such crappy online pricing anyway.
They charge 45 euro's for a new game.
I can get new games in retail for 35 euro's
Pokemaniac
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That's probably partially a Unity thing. The engine has a bit of a file size overhead.
Theyre already pretty cheap. Also I'm 99% sure this time they're letting you swap out sd cards on the fly. That said, a game requiring external storage from pretty much day 1 seems pretty insane.
but the times of doing this are over....
Jonneh3003
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Possumowner
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Good job I'm getting physical for all games possible,but ouch for those that go digital
A lot of people don't realise how impractical and even dangerous to a system having a physical hard drive would be to a hybrid device
Herb Alpert
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Yeah they should ask Sony how to manage storage on an handheld form factor! And all these Nintendo fans will find a justification for this mess. Hey, It's 2017 nintendo goddammit!
Was I on point?
Dragon Quest just smells really bad optimization... From the size to the graphics, I can see a dirty port incoming.
goldenpp72
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Yeah it definitely is a pretty typical console.
/Nod as an owner of an Archos tablet with 250gb of storage that is now bricked. T_T
Sgtpepper89
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Pyo Tetris should be obligatory dl on all Switches, portable puzzle games rules
Curious about the size of Disgaea 5 now that I think about it. What bugs me with the Vita releases is that it SEEMS the audio for most battle clips is compressed, likely due to the 4gb cap to work with, but with a much higher one (and the games not exactly being the most space demanding relative to AAA titles) I hope we can avoid that this time.
The site has Disgaea 5 Complete listed as 5.92 GB.
Herb Alpert
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to be fair it is not about "sony console warriors". A lot of people just don't really understand how storage in such a form factor works. And the concept of hybrid may be too difficult to grasp to them. Nintendo said "home console" sot it must be "home console". And thus they compare these specs to a home console, aka apple to oranges.
And for some others shitposting in a switch thread must give them a shot of endorphin cause they really feel addict to that.
in the day of tablets and smartphones it is incredible hard to believe that people don't understand that ._.
Same. CANT WAIT! Hopefully there is finally a slight discount when buying it digital vs physical.
Flying Toaster
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I have been solid digital since the PSP GO and I am going full Physical on the Switch. About time to collect some physical games.
200GB-256GB cards can already be had for £30-£40 at sale prices. I got a 256GB Samsung card on e-bay for that price. Would have preffered a SanDisk, but they're mostly pushing the 200GB just now and I felt that would be too close to the amount of storage I used on my WiiU. (Calculated for another thread, can't remember now, I think it was about 181GB.)
If you're going fully digital that probably won't be enough, but as a mostly physical buyer who also digitally buys indies, VC games and the odd retail game in e-shop sales, it should see me through the lifetime of the Switch.
Ive never played a DQ before so I feel I need to give it a go as I only play on Nintendo (Or Mac) ... Heres hoping its at least an okayish port!
I Wanna Be The Guy
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Reading the responses in this thread is painful. Like, seriously, what the fuck did you expect? Of course if you want to go digital on a handheld you'll need to buy extra memory. Why in gods name would you think otherwise? You are being completely unfair and unrealistic. There's a lot of things worth complaining about with the Switch. This isn't one of them.
It is when a game does not fit on internal storage
You shouldn't be forced to spend another 30€+ to be able to play
This is not a "real" dragon quest though, it's a dynasty warriors game in the DQ universe. And no one needs to play those
Herb Alpert
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Yeah that's dumb, I agree.
But you know, you can buy it physically. And the SD card won't be just for this one game.
Wasn't there something like that on Vita? some games could not even be played without one of those wonderful memory cards?
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Yeah, what Shahadan said. If you have a 3DS, between the DS and 3DS games, you can play a lot of the mainline games (IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X [an MMO, so a bit different], and eventually XI). If you'll only have a Switch, DQXI is probably going to be your best bet at getting a taste of the series.
This is so obtuse. People were complaining about the 32gb before the size of this game was known. It was known ahead of time that extra memory was going to be needed to be purchased especially if you were going all digital. What modern handheld, tablet, phone doesn't play by these rules? The manufacture rarely eats the cost of putting expensive memory in the product (which still won't be enough), they sell the product for a higher price to compensate, or they pass the cost into the consumer. If you weren't expecting this with the switch before it was even announced idk what to tell you.
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And you don't if you choose to go physical.
Candescence
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You couldn't save games at all without a memory card, because the Vita didn't have any internal storage to speak of (at least, not any that wasn't reserved by the system itself).
Haha, yeah, lost in all of these is the fact that DQ Heroes were just average games. They are not real DQ, but are also too slow pace and complicated for Musou
The original vita had no useable onboard memory. You HAD to purchase a proprietary expensive card
Haunted
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The fridge is back, baby.
Terrible look for Nintendo on this one. I routinely have trouble with my 500GB PS4 HDD, can't even imagine how brutal it's going to be to go digital with Nintendo's new hardware.
*insert snarky comment about the space being enough because there won't be AAA games/third party titles to fill it anyway*
Terrible look for Nintendo on this one. I routinely have trouble with my 500GB PS4 HDD, can't even imagine how brutal it's going to be to go digital with Nintendo's new hardware.
*insert snarky comment about the space being enough because there won't be AAA games/third party titles to fill it anyway*
You aren't, you can just buy the game on a card instead of buying a card to put the game on.
For a portable machine, this isn't new, either. PSP and Vita both have no internal memory at all and you can't even save games without buying expensive memory cards, even if you bought them physically. The 3DS comes with a small amount of internal memory and a standard 2 GB SD card, but (had it launched with the eShop, which it of course didn't), I'm fairly certain there would have been a game that would not fit on the 1.whatever GB that you actually get to use.
I know precedent doesn't mean everything and that two (three) wrongs don't make a right, but this isn't some outrages concept, this isn't Nintendo "skimping", breaking conventions and norms and specifically trying to fuck any of you over. It's an unfortunate reality of the way pricing on portable gaming machines works.
And the thing is this: There IS a workaround. You are NOT forced to buy additional memory right out of the gate (like you were with the Vita, let's say). You only force yourself, because there are other ways to play DQH1+2 on the Nintendo Switch.
Herb Alpert
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I Wanna Be The Guy
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On 3DS I have 1 full retail digital game. I can't fit any more full retail digital titles on it without buying an SD card. Please explain to me how that is any better than Switch.
Thanks, I'll probably hold out for XI in that case.
I Wanna Be The Guy
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Games will be a lot smaller than PS4 in general though. Doubt we'll routinely be seeing 50gb games on Switch.
I Wanna Be The Guy
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What? Bought Pheonix Wright Trilogy digital. Went to buy Luigi's Mansion digital and it wouldn't fit. That's the extent of my digital 3DS library aside from a bunch of VC games that no doubt have very tiny file sizes. Just like wity Switch, if you were serious about digital on 3DS you needed extra memory.
Haunted
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my first reaction, still valid
edit : gotcha
That said, Switch has less than 1/10th of the space out of the box and I somehow doubt we'll see 1/10th on average in terms of game sizes.
That said, the Switch does support external HDDs if you want to use it purely as a home console (as I intend to), right? So there's that possibility at least.