Nintendo partners with Western Digital to create licensed Switch SanDisk memory cards

>Nintendo partners with Western Digital to create licensed Switch SanDisk memory cards

not bad

What exactly makes them special though?

if it detects non-nintendo data, it self destructs

why does the switch come with like no internal storage?

They're more expensive and have a Nintendo branding! Wow!

what is the premium i have to pay for the packaging?

I guess is worth it for the Switch logo.

Cool. I won't need it for my Switch anyway because it takes none Nintendo branded cards anyway.

One is 400gb. That's about it. Not that anyone will ever need that much for a Switch.

well you can be sure that they are tested for the switch and fast enough

>sandisk

They're the same speeds as the normal ones you can get.

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>it has MARIO and ZELDA on the PACKAGING SO I CLAPPED

the nintendo-sandisk partnership, duh.
they cost a bit more for the same specs as any other sd, but it'll make sure that "nintendo sd card" will be the first thing popping up while e-shopping, so WD sells more units and nintendo gets its cut

At least it's not an exclusive proprietary system that you either buy or don't have extra memory.

so normies know which sd card to buy

How about they make a console with some decent fucking memory space.

Holy shit i imagine what the vita coul've been without that proprietary bullshit

>it's okay when nintendo does it
sonykeks btfo

Nintendo isn't doing what Sony did, though. Nothing prevents you from buying generic.

everybody hated it when sony did it nintenkid why do you think it didnt sell that well

That's why it's ok user, because they did ok.

I might want the BotW one for my collection.

People are really starting to get nuts with buying retarded bits of plastic. Then again these are objectively less stupid than Amiibos. They're more useful.

first they are doing it better than sony second it's still shit nintenkiddie

Better yet, if they didn't overprice their proprietary memory.

>announce officially licensed SD cards
>same day announce that some Switch games can't be played fully off of the cartridge and require a MicroSD

If they're made by SanDisk what does Western Digital has to do with it?

Because Nintendo hates us despite our love and support

Western Digital acquired SanDisk
Compared to the Vita, they absolutely love us.

because you're a good goy

now buy the fucking SD CARDS

How many people here almost pulled the trigger on a vita or PSTV but didn't when they saw the memory card prices?

>Western Digital acquired SanDisk

They're still basically separate companies doing their own things, which is why we have both WD SSDs and SanDisk SSDs.

Memory card prices and lack of games that interested me

That and the complete lack of games from SONY past the first 18 months.

How much storage do you think it should have come with?

Where can you actually buy them and how overpriced are they

I actually have a 128 SanDisk ultra micro SD in my switch.

That was criminal

Not as overpriced as the
>vita

The Vita had no internal storage (beyond OS shit)
The Switch on the other hand doesn't have bloated games or installs.

10x the price for the same function as a non-licensed card

Really? Mainstream gaming media have consistently told me the Vita was well supported by Sony and far better than the Nintendo 3DS/Wii U/Switch

I hope 2K expects low sales, they can't be very bright
>requires sd card
>requires always online

>Wanting a Rey balloon
>Wanting the whiny Jew nose on a balloon

3-4 times myself. The dungeon crawler line up on the Vita really intrigued me for the longest time. Thanks to Sony's shitty price gouging on the memory though, I'm now seeing the games on Steam, so fuck Sony.

>modern games are 40gb+
>Switch carts get prohibitively expensive after 32gb
They're going to have to start both compressing assets and making them look like last-gen 360/PS3 games.

Or just not be completely retarded

you're fucking retarded

That would require modern devs to know how to create assets of reasonable size. Hell, FFXV is 80gb with all patches + DLC installed. GTA5 is 77gb, NuDoom is 67gb.

You were lied to, Sony didn't support the Vita. At least Nintendo supports their consoles themselves.

>Breath of the Wild - 13GB
>Final Fantasy XV - 80GB
Jesus Christ, SquEnix what the fuck

FFXV on PC is like 130Gb or some shit.

>10x larger filesize than BotW
Is Square Enix retarded or is Nintendo just good at what they do?

Nintendo™ Seal of Quality

There are still slower MicroSD cards on the market though. For normies, this will make things a bit simpler.

Yes.

>the Vita was well supported by Sony
Sony barely supports their home consoles which is why they're so reliant on third party support.

Both.

The ones with Nintendo branding on them won't be 400GB

It's both
Which is why third parties hate Nintendo, they just get shown up.

it's bigger looks better has more enemy variety sounds worse but the noises in zelda are kinda bad

Breath of the Wild only has 10 textures in it.

XV on PC has 4K-ready assets, which probably includes the FMVs as well which are 1080p on consoles.

>it's bigger
No
lol?

>it's bigger looks better has more enemy variety
Only one of these things is true.

nintenbros are kinda stupid

Get Xbox one, buy disc copies of Halo Gears, Forza, Quantum Break. Have to install every game plus download 50gb+ patches that take hours to download before you can even play. Pack in hard drive is already full after 4 games.

Get a Switch and physical copies of BOTW, Mario Kart, Arms, Mario + Rabbids, Splatoon 2, etc. Patches are less than 1gb, don't have to install games to play them. Barely any of the 32gb is used. Even if you bought download versions of all those games you would have space left.

>SquEnixfags are kinda stupid
FTFY

you mean two ff looks better and has more enemy variety

500gb at least

Storage is cheap these days.

Have prices been announced? I'm just wondering how they compare to unbranded U3 cards.

>XV
>looking better than anything

It's cheap if you want to buy the shit stuff at least.

>ff looks better
lol

it is bigger it has a way bigger map size better textures more enemy variety
art style dont mean shit it's all about texture quality

>it is bigger it has a way bigger map size
No, the actual walking area is way smaller. The game is full of invisible walled off areas.
>art style dont mean shit
lol

No, it's just cheap.

Not the kind of storage that can be used for a small, portable device.

They both look like shit, but XV seems to have a semblance of actual contrast.

64GB would have been reasonable, then you'd have about 57GB left for internal storage

>art style dont mean shit it's all about texture quality
Texture quality is about as important as mentioning a current fad. All it does is date the game and make it look like shit once new hardware comes along.
An artstyle on the other hand is timeless.

lol? XV looks like garbage

If you want something shit.

texture quality is all that matters
i can have a super shitty art style but texture quality is what matters
wrong botw art style will die and look bad in about 3-5 years plus botw's art style is shit tp was better

If you want 64GB, you can add a 32GB micro SD card for $13.

>that quality difference
What the hell is square doing if it can't keep up with a game that's made with a system one tier of power below the PS4?

Nope, just cheap. And don't talk about "something shit" while buying 5 year old licensed Nvidia tablets.

Killzone Mercenary took up 4/8gb on my SD card.

>Nope, just cheap.
Again, if you want shit hardware that's prone to breaking down in about 4 years or so.

Look how terrible the ground textures are in the BOTW snapshot on the right side of the screen once the grass distance stops covering up how ass the game looks.

>32GB
*29GB

Final fantasy xv's texture quality is better ff xv's art style is slightly better than botw

>wrong botw art style will die and look bad in about 3-5 years
They said the same thing about Wind Waker back in the day and it still looks good.
>tp was better
Funny that you would pick the more "realistic" Zelda game that aged like crap. The exact same thing is going to happen to XV too mind you.

You're right, and XV still looks worse.

I can't believe how bad the vita was. Sony had to refund and pay damages to everyone that bought a vita day one

Wasn't this LITERALLY what killed the Vita? Do Nintendo fans know no shame?

nintenshills are pretty much the cancer killing games along with naughty dog
yeah sony did drop the ball hard

They have denuvo so you cant hack you switch