Nintendo Switch 64GB-cartridges delayed

Nintendo Switch 64GB-cartridges delayed

As developers want to create games for Nintendo Switch and they make them available physically than they have cartridges up to a 32GB at their disposal. It was supposed that a 64GB option would be introduced by the end of 2018, but Nintendo according to the Wall Street Journal has let developers know that this isnot going to happen until 2019.

This could be due to ‘technical problems’, but according to the source it also has to do with the fact that Nintendo aquires some components from rival companies and that they opposing each other.

The reason

This message is on one side a bit annoying for Nintendo Switch owners, as more and more physical titles will become available that will need an extra (large) download,  more capacity simply becomes a must. Yet it is the high price of the cartridges to that is keeping the situation at is. Games are now mostly put on a 16GB cartridge, while 32GB is also available.

Still games using 16GB cartridges come offered at a more expensive price because the production costs are higher. 32GB is now almost hardly used and therefore provisionally it makes no sense to provide 64GB as an option.

Many developers will first wait to get the price of cartridges lower before deciding to use a ‘bigger’ cartridge.

From a personal aspect we can only agree this is frustrating. We are also starting to use a 2nd Micro SD card for our Nintendo Switch. We hope that the trend will, however, may turn more positive in the future. You should not burden gamers with the ‘problems’ in the development cycle.