So, Nintendo opened up pre-orders for Switch 2 games and the console itself, right? Naturally, I dove right into the “Game file size” sections—because apparently, that’s my thing now. Some of these game sizes are, well, not tiny. Think more like hefty PC games than the old Switch’s offerings, which caught me off guard. I mean, why did they have to be so big? Weird, huh?
Okay, think about this: Nintendo’s jazzing it up with a console that can handle games at 1080p and beyond. Sounds great, but here’s the kicker—256 GB storage isn’t going to cut it when these game sizes go nuts. Like, poof, and it’s full before you blink twice. Check out those upcoming game sizes: over 300 GB if you tally them up. Yikes.
And, yeah, it sounds kind of bonkers—the idea of buying extra storage for a console that’s just a thing in a shopping cart right now. But seriously, it’s worth snagging a huge microSD Express card if you can swing it. They’re speed demons compared to the old microSD sloths we used for stuff like the Steam Deck. Fun fact: these new cards won’t play nice with your existing ones for anything beyond ogling your captured Switch memories. Pretty exclusive, you know? Who knew storage could be so snooty.
