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[cheesekao]

Assuming that the bare minimum size is 32 GB, does anyone have an idea of how much more expensive/cheaper it would be compared to a Blu-ray?

 

[Mihos]

I'm down. I never liked discs, I always freak out that younger children are going to wreck them.

Now you can just freak out that they are going to choke on them

Spoiler

So glad my kids are grown

 

[Plinko]

Will it be region free?

Yep. Emily Rogers confirmed.

 

[Lil'DigiOp]

I basically look at it as small flash memory with its own ram inside? Or is it really closer to SD cards nowadays.

Like someone said, Skyrim on a game card is a exciting concept.

Tech has come so far. I love Nintendos strategy.

 

[mantidor]

Yep. Emily Rogers confirmed.

I won't believe it until an official announcement.

 

[Atomski]

When I see the pictures, I'm just chuckling at the thought of people at conventions setting up tables with Mario Kart, everyone trying to sync the controllers to the correct Switch.

Wouldn't they just be synced to the console u pulled them out of?

 

[John Kowalski]

Sega Card rolling in its grave

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Game cards in a mobile console! What a time to be alive!

But seriously, what the heck did people expect?!

 

[Wandering Robot]

Card use is exciting. So long as I don't lose any of them, this should be really promising.

 

[NimbusD]

how much space could those possibly hold?

128gb easily judging by and cards which are a similar size.

 

[giancarlo123x]

Game cards in a mobile console! What a time to be alive!

But seriously, what the heck did people expect?!

The return of the king.

 

[NeOak]

Exactly. Cards are digital memory based. Cartridges, iirc, are analog board based.

Analog board based?

What, you think there is a vacuum tube inside NES cartridges?

Everything has always been digital. They were ROM chips that were written to once. Same shit.

 

[UCBooties]

Beautiful screen, carts, and a twin stick design?

Vita 2 here we come!

 

[cyress8]

Man, I have not had a portable in 15 something years. I know I will lose these fucking things because I will get lazy and just put them in my pocket. Bunch of money down the drain when I accidently wash a couple.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I wonder what the retail packaging will be like.

 

[KojiKnight]

I'm down. I never liked discs, I always freak out that younger children are going to wreck them.

My 3 and 6 year old have proven carts are no safer than discs...

 

[Phoenixus]

Big plus if game updates can be stored on them as well, saving memory space in the main unit.

 

[Thabass]

Good. Fuck installs. Bigger memory banks too. Can probably fit a lot more in there.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

I wonder what the retail packaging will be like.

Probably Vita slim cases.

It's a huge cost savings

 

[Lotto]

this is actually one of my favorite things from the announcement, cd's suck.

 

[Plinko]

I won't believe it until an official announcement.

That's fine, but she was basically 100% right with this entire system.

 

[Canklestank]

Man, I have not had a portable in 15 something years. I know I will lose these fucking things because I will get lazy and just put them in my pocket. Bunch of money down the drain when I accidently wash a couple.

They'll probably work just fine after you wash them. My SD cards always have. But I did have this problem with Vita, which is why I very quickly switched to digital only. I honestly don't even know where my Vita cards are right now.

 

[eFKac]

The sequel we need.

I've played this, and it blew my young mind back then.

 

[AgeEighty]

how much space could those possibly hold?

More than discs, potentially. SD cards for example currently top out at 256GB, which is far larger than a Blu-ray disc.

The old space limitations of carts are no longer a factor. The bigger question is production expense, which always did and probably still does favor optical media. And licensing fees.

 

[Da-Kid]

I like how even putting the handheld on the dock is like putting in a cartridge like the SNES.

 

[Haines]

Im happy. Carts rock.

 

[Koppai]

Yep. Emily Rogers confirmed.

Yassss taikooooo

 

[CorrisD]

Skyrim on a cart, surreal

Skyrim on Xbox 360 was only 3.9gb, which is basically nothing compared to most modern games these days. While we don't know how much the remaster will be I can't imagine a portable version is going to need a massive amount more than that.

how much space could those possibly hold?

I've got a flash drive about the same size, well, probably a tiny bit smaller, that is 128gb. Nintendo will likely have cartridges with multiple sizes for developers to use like they have done in the past, so developers only use use up to what they need.

 

[Safros]

Beautiful screen, carts, and a twin stick design?

Vita 2 here we come!

It's too bad the Dpad looks much worse in comparison, but I'm pretty pleased with everything else.

 

[Neoxon]

I won't believe it until an official announcement.

After Emily Rogers leaked quite literally everything about the Switch?

 

[qualitydisc]

The sequel we need.

Today I learned there was an Elder Scrolls game on the Ngage (and it's rare, judging by the prices)

 

[Ionic]

So, can I expect game patches to be saved to the cart? It would be nice not having to worry about the console memory filling up over time as content is added to games.

 

[TriAceJP]

My 3 and 6 year old have proven carts are no safer than discs...

I was about to say...

 

[Maintenance]

Need to know how they are going to deal with storage on the handheld, so far not impressed. That shit is gonna be expensive.

 

[Morts]

Hopefully there's a decent amount of onboard storage or SD Card support as I'd like to go 100% digital this time around.

Itd be great if there were multiple storage SKUs to give people like me the option to spend more to get 256 GB or more.

 

[piggychan]

I'm sold, now I just got to figure out what to do with some of the nintendo hardware lying around my home...

 

[tkscz]

I wonder if this will affect the price of carts at all, something like Skyrim will be pushing 4GB, wonder how cheap Nintendo can get media for carts.

4GB? That's the 3DS. Cards/Carts can easily hit 128GB and remain at an affordable price for developers/publishers. I'd say the average Cart for the Switch is going to be 64GB

 

[enzo_gt]

Good solution to save physical space on the mobile component, so long as the data transfer rate is up to par (I'm not familiar with how flash storage compares in this regard).

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

So as I said. Basically DS cards.

 

[Funkybee12]

Obviously, it's a portable device after all.

Simple logic.

 

[mantidor]

After Emily Rogers leaked quite literally everything about the Switch?

because Nintendo + Region Free = Does not compute

I guess maybe it did for Nintendo portables once upon a time, and they made sure to show someone travelling in a plane so the hopeful in me wants that flight to be international.

We'll see, but Rogers could be off, being region free is ultimately a business decision and not a hardware decision, you could know every single detail about the controller and even have a dev kit and still don't know if the console is region free.

 

[LordRaptor]

If the cartridges are physically a similar size to DS / 3DS carts, I wonder if backwards compatibility might be on the table.
Depending how the carts are manufactured, making it a multi-format reader might be feasible, and its pretty likely the actual unit has more than enough power to software emulate the actual code, even if it doesn't have actual DS / 3DS hardware included.

 

[Riposte]

Do you download games onto a SD cartridge?

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

I wonder how much space they hold and how downloadable games will be handled.

 

[-shadow-]

Considering how large cartridges can get these days it seems more than logical. Especially considering the handheld aspect of the system. If the load times are about the same as the 3DS I'd be totally fine with it!

 

[RPGCrazied]

I wonder what the retail packaging will be like.

Probably 3DS style ones.

 

[gamergirly]

Fine by me.

I spent about half my gaming life using cartridges by Nintendo lol

 

[Plasmid]

Can't wait to get my official nintendo switch cartridge game holder.

 

[NeOak]

Can't wait to get my official nintendo switch cartridge game holder.

LOL

 

[Vital Tundra]

Do you download games onto a SD cartridge?

Yes it supports SS like 3DS.