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[Chobel]

https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/791899762035335168

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EDIT: From Emily Rogers https://twitter.com/ArcadeGirl64/status/792071571384864768 (Thanks SinCityAssassin)

 

[sir_bumble_bee]

That would be a really compressed game if true

 

[OrbitalBeard]

So, that's the smallest a Switch card will be?

Going by Nintendo's history with game cards, this means we'll be seeing much larger ones throughout the Switch's lifecycle.

 

[Rushersauce]

I bet 32gb and 64gb will be available in no time

 

[RootCause]

Not bad, not bad.

 

[Tripon]

That's fine. Not as if they will stay at 16 gigs thoughout the life of the switch.

 

[GameE]

What's his source

 

[JoeM86]

People need to remember before over-reacting that this is standard, not maximum

 

[Borman]

Wasnt there a point on the PS3 where data was being duplicated to allow the slow bluray drive to keep up? Obviously 16gb isn't all that large, but at least its expandable from there.

 

[Captain Zyrain]

Should be fine.

 

[sir_bumble_bee]

I bet 32gb and 64gb will be available in no time

I thought rumors said over 100gb will be used?

 

[AsylumBlue]

Compressed audio is a curse.

I thought rumors said over 100gb will be used

That wasn't referring to the actual game cards.

 

[FZW]

but... a single layer blu ray is 25GB

 

[Hydrus]

Most Wii U games were not even close to 16 gb and they looked great. Don't think this will be an issue for Nintendo games.

 

[LegendofLex]

I'll be really happy when all of the following questions are answered:

- Will I be able to use most "retail"-type games on game cards without having to download and install a bunch of data?
- What happens when I purchase a game, at retail or digitally, that I want to play online with another family member? Will I need to buy a second copy of the game?
- How much internal storage will the system have?
- How much space will most games take up when downloaded/installed?

These questions are all super inter-related and it sucks having to guess at what the answers might be.

 

[mugurumakensei]

That would be a really compressed game if true

Standard size = minimum size.

 

[Aters]

BoTW $80 confirmed.

 

[Koobion]

So, that's the smallest a Switch card will be?

Going by Nintendo's history with game cards, this means we'll be seeing much larger cards throughout the Switch's lifecycle.

That's what came to mind for me too, namely in regards to the N64 cartridges.

 

[Waylon Drums]

People need to remember before over-reacting that this is standard, not maximum

The early "standard" cartridge for the N64 was like 4MB and RE2 came out on a 64MB cart so...yeah. You're probably right.

 

[BorkBork]

Nintendo first party games are always ridiculously small. It's the third party ones that would be a bit concerning.

 

[LordKano]

Yeah, there's gonna be some 32gb cards at launch already, especially if Skyrim Remastered is planned for March.

 

[BronzeWolf]

 

[Rushersauce]

I thought rumors said over 100gb will be used?

That's sd capacity iirc. But, seeing a 128gb cart in the future is really likely

 

[Justified]

How will patches be handle?

Does the switch have stand alone expandable storage, or will it all (DLC updates, patches) go on the game card

 

[Pachinko]

Standard in this case probably means lowest. I imagine with todays flash memory capability they could go from 16 GB all the way up to 128 GB.

I think the more pressing comment on everyones mind is - if the dock doesn't let you plug in a hard drive and a big name title gets thrown on the Switch that's 70GB with a 30 GB patch, where does it all get stored ? Is the console just going to rely entirely on solid state media ? Or will carts have a huge writable portion to hold patches ? (which could be a pretty effortless back door for pirates).

Guess we'll just have to wait until January.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

N64 situation

 

[VanWinkle]

Hmm...pretty low by current-gen standards.

 

[dallow_bg]

It's enough for this system. I'm sure larger cards will come too.

but... a single layer blu ray is 25GB

Yeah... that's weird.

 

[DrROBschiz]

Oh boy

This guy shouldnt even be reporting unless he knows what the max is

Im SURE 16GB carts will be used quite often

No reason to ship a game thats under that size on a 32GB cart

Makes sense but I wonder what the range will be

 

[BigTnaples]

Lol. There goes any possibility for multiplats. Especially if this and the 4Gb ram is also true...

 

[The Boat]

but... a single layer blu ray is 25GB

I'm guessing most games don't fill up those 25 GB.

 

[NSESN]

Does anyone know the standard and maximum 3DS game card capacities?

 

[LordKano]

How will patches be handle?

Does the switch have stand alone expandable storage, or will it all (DLC updates, patches) go on the game card

The same way as it's handled on 3DS : it goes on the storage of the console (or the SD card, if you have one)

 

[Gamepad]

Looks like standard capacity of Switch game card at least when console launched would be around 16; enough for one-layer Blu-ray game.

No. A single layer Blu-ray is 25GB.

 

[TheJoRu]

Does anyone know the standard and maximum 3DS game card capacities?

3DS cards can range from 128 MB to 8 GB.

EDIT: Or maybe it was 1 GB minimum, I don't quite remember. But definitely 8 GB max.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

That's fine. Not as if they will stay at 16 gigs thoughout the life of the switch.

That's not fine, IMO. Should be at least around 25GB available at the start for any devs that want to make use of more space.

 

[DrROBschiz]

Does anyone know the standard and maximum 3DS game card capacities?

Weren't 3DS carts like somewhere between 4 and 8GB?

 

[tesla246]

That is actually pretty good, if it is the minimum size. What was the 3DS minimum size again? 512MB minimum and a max of 8 GB?

About the usb harddrive option; didn't wiiU get support for that later? It seems likely to me that they will patch that in. They can always do that, right?

The big question now is how large they can get.

 

[dragonflys545]

They're going to have a fun time with getting third party to work on compressing...

 

[Lupin the Third]

Does anyone know the standard and maximum 3DS game card capacities?

I do not but I think the biggest card is the ultra-rare Fire Emblem Fates SE card (which may or may not be the same size as Xenoblade?). What is it, 8GB?

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

So only 360/PS3 gen games then.

 

[Steiner]

People need to remember before over-reacting that this is standard, not maximum

Lol. There goes any possibility for multiplats. Especially if this and the 4Gb ram is also true...

Too late.
Yeah I really wish this guy would have waited to report this as a "headline." I've already seen a few peeps run with this under the erroneous assumption that the Switch won't be able to play any games that can't be compressed to 16GB or less.

 

[scitek]

but... a single layer blu ray is 25GB

Yeah, I was about to say the same thing.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Ouch.

 

[Shengar]

16GB standard looks good.

 

[flkraven]

So, third party support?

 

[platina]

uh oh regular sized games are 40-50gb+ this doesn't look good for third parties.

 

[DieH@rd]

https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/791899762035335168

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Single-layer Bluray is 25,025,314,816 bytes [25 GB]. And one layer of BD XL is 33 GB.

 

[Living the Dream]

Let's say 32 GB is the internal size and 16 GB is the standard game size.


Going digital means you can only store two retail games 😂

 

[Kucan]

Does anyone know the standard and maximum 3DS game card capacities?

They range from 128 Megabytes to 8 Gigabytes. The original maximum was 2 Gigabytes.