>Nintendo partners with Western Digital to create licensed

What exactly makes them special though?

>>388978357
if it detects non-nintendo data, it self destructs

>>388978301
why does the switch come with like no internal storage?

>>388978357
They're more expensive and have a Nintendo branding! Wow!

>>388978301
what is the premium i have to pay for the packaging?

I guess is worth it for the Switch logo.

>>388978515
Cool. I won't need it for my Switch anyway because it takes none Nintendo branded cards anyway.

>>388978357
One is 400gb. That's about it. Not that anyone will ever need that much for a Switch.

>>388978357
well you can be sure that they are tested for the switch and fast enough

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>>388978301
>sandisk

>>388978956
They're the same speeds as the normal ones you can get.

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>>388978480

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>>388978301
>it has MARIO and ZELDA on the PACKAGING SO I CLAPPED

>>388978357
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

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

>>388978357
so normies know which sd card to buy

>>388978301
How about they make a console with some decent fucking memory space.

>>388979871
Holy shit i imagine what the vita coul've been without that proprietary bullshit

>>388978301
>it's okay when nintendo does it
sonykeks btfo

>>388980332
Nintendo isn't doing what Sony did, though. Nothing prevents you from buying generic.

>>388980332
everybody hated it when sony did it nintenkid why do you think it didnt sell that well

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>>388980464
That's why it's ok anon, because they did ok.

I might want the BotW one for my collection.

>>388980793
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.

>>388980173
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?

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>>388978494
Because Nintendo hates us despite our love and support

>>388983060
Western Digital acquired SanDisk
>>388983210
Compared to the Vita, they absolutely love us.

>>388978494
because you're a good goy

now buy the fucking SD CARDS

>>388979871

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

>>388983329
>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.

>>388983351
Memory card prices and lack of games that interested me

>>388983351
That and the complete lack of games from SONY past the first 18 months.

>>388978494
How much storage do you think it should have come with?

Where can you actually buy them and how overpriced are they

>>388983341
I actually have a 128 SanDisk ultra micro SD in my switch.

>>388983474
That was criminal

>>388983678
Not as overpriced as the
>vita

>>388978494
The Vita had no internal storage (beyond OS shit)
The Switch on the other hand doesn't have bloated games or installs.

>>388978357
10x the price for the same function as a non-licensed card

>>388983790
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

>>388982992
I hope 2K expects low sales, they can't be very bright
>requires sd card
>requires always online

>>388979721
>Wanting a Rey balloon
>Wanting the whiny Jew nose on a balloon

>>388983351
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.

>>388983981
>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.

>>388984232
Or just not be completely retarded

>>388984232
you're fucking retarded

>>388984502
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.

>>388983972
You were lied to, Sony didn't support the Vita. At least Nintendo supports their consoles themselves.

>>388984803
>Breath of the Wild - 13GB
>Final Fantasy XV - 80GB
Jesus Christ, SquEnix what the fuck

>>388984803
FFXV on PC is like 130Gb or some shit.

>>388985132
>10x larger filesize than BotW
Is Square Enix retarded or is Nintendo just good at what they do?

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>>388978515
Nintendo™ Seal of Quality

>>388979246
There are still slower MicroSD cards on the market though. For normies, this will make things a bit simpler.

>>388985268
Yes.

>>388983972
>the Vita was well supported by Sony
Sony barely supports their home consoles which is why they're so reliant on third party support.

>>388985268
Both.

>>388978749
The ones with Nintendo branding on them won't be 400GB

>>388985268
It's both
Which is why third parties hate Nintendo, they just get shown up.

>>388985071
it's bigger looks better has more enemy variety sounds worse but the noises in zelda are kinda bad

>>388985071
Breath of the Wild only has 10 textures in it.

>>388985268
XV on PC has 4K-ready assets, which probably includes the FMVs as well which are 1080p on consoles.

>>388985663
>it's bigger
No
>>388985670
lol?

>>388985663
>it's bigger looks better has more enemy variety
Only one of these things is true.

>>388985517
>>388985461
>>388985616
nintenbros are kinda stupid >>388985754

>>388978494
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.

>>388985912
>SquEnixfags are kinda stupid
FTFY

>>388985843
you mean two ff looks better and has more enemy variety

>>388983541
500gb at least

Storage is cheap these days.

>>388983937
Have prices been announced? I'm just wondering how they compare to unbranded U3 cards.

>>388985986
>XV
>looking better than anything

>>388985991
It's cheap if you want to buy the shit stuff at least.

>>388985986
>ff looks better
lol

>>388985817
>>388985843
>>388985971
it is bigger it has a way bigger map size better textures more enemy variety
>>388986119
>>388986226
art style dont mean shit it's all about texture quality

>>388986278
>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

>>388986197
No, it's just cheap.

>>388985991
Not the kind of storage that can be used for a small, portable device.

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>>388986119
They both look like shit, but XV seems to have a semblance of actual contrast.

>>388983541
64GB would have been reasonable, then you'd have about 57GB left for internal storage

>>388986278
>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.

>>388986421
lol? XV looks like garbage

>>388986380
If you want something shit.

>>388986349
texture quality is all that matters
i can have a super shitty art style but texture quality is what matters
>>388986452
wrong botw art style will die and look bad in about 3-5 years plus botw's art style is shit tp was better

>>388986449
If you want 64GB, you can add a 32GB micro SD card for $13.

>>388986421
>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?

>>388986560
Nope, just cheap. And don't talk about "something shit" while buying 5 year old licensed Nvidia tablets.

>>388983846
Killzone Mercenary took up 4/8gb on my SD card.

>>388986686
>Nope, just cheap.
Again, if you want shit hardware that's prone to breaking down in about 4 years or so.

>>388986676
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.

>>388986667
>32GB
*29GB

>>388986676
Final fantasy xv's texture quality is better ff xv's art style is slightly better than botw

>>388986614
>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.

>>388986835
You're right, and XV still looks worse.

>>388979871
I can't believe how bad the vita was. Sony had to refund and pay damages to everyone that bought a vita day one

>>388978301
Wasn't this LITERALLY what killed the Vita? Do Nintendo fans know no shame?

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>>388987112
nintenshills are pretty much the cancer killing games along with naughty dog
>>388987197
yeah sony did drop the ball hard

>>388978357
They have denuvo so you cant hack you switch

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>>388979871
Thankfully that problem has been fixed.

>>388978494
Do you want it to cost more?

>>388978301
they've done this since the wii

>>388987206
>vita
>you can only buy sony cards

>switch
>you can buy any card available, licensed or not

>LITERALLY

it's time to kill yourself

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>>388987206
>Wasn't this LITERALLY what killed the Vita?
No? what killed Vita was that you had to buy expensive PROPRIETARY sd cards, in this case you can still buy any generic one, besides if you buy the games physical in switch you don't need to have sd unlike a ton of vita games
>buy uncharted in physical
>still have to buy a expensive sd anyway because the game won't save on the console

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>>388979871
>sell my vita last year to help pay rent because I know I can probably find a cheap one in the future
>keep the memory card because I know I probably won't find a cheap one in the future

Sony should never enter the handheld market again.

>>388987876
>rent
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHA

>>388987876
they should they had a handheld 3 times more powerful than 3ds

>>388987493
It only works with cfw doesn't it?

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>>388987982
>well, this system has no good games
>BUT MUH POWAH!!!!

every. time.

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>>388987961
>struggling to make house payments until you're almost dead

You get caught in the jew's trap no matter what you do, why are you laughing?

>>388978301
If they're the same price, and this is just a packaging thing, I see no issue. If anything, it's good, because it makes it way more obvious to Grandma that she should buy this with the console when she's Christmas shopping.

>>388988238
thank god I don't live in murrika

>>388983351
I didn't get a Vita until I saw a deal where those cards were half-off if you bought one with the system. If that didn't happen, I might not have ever gotten one.

Which would've been a shame, because it would've meant I never got to play Soul Sacrifice.

>>388988229
>Japanese dont count

>>388988118
Correct. That being said, they are dirt cheap and can be made to order. So long as you're on 3.60, you're set.

>>388988436
Sadly it seems to be hard to get a 3.60 vita nowadays unless you can track down a new NA one somewhere. Buying new from amazon gets you 3.65 vitas from hong kong.

>>388986686
i dont own a switch

>>388983398
I'm pretty sure any ssd labeled sandisk is leftover stock, the wd blue ssd is just the sandisk x400 with a new sticker on it

>>388983937
this isn't the psvita