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A post yesterday talked about how the eshop says the download is 6.7GB. But the eshop also says that a lot of the included stuff are separate downloads. I’m not happy about 62GB of downloads on a physical game, but I think it’s more realistic for Borderlands 3. Eshop link:
[https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/borderlands-3-ultimate-edition-switch/](https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/borderlands-3-ultimate-edition-switch/)
I think the 6.7GB is probably the same as whatever is on the cartridge, but with all the extras or updates or whatever it will be 62GB. Edit: Well I guess if the 6.7GB is on the cartridge that would make the download version 68.7GB total…
by pickledgreatness
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That’s insane for a switch game
So, even the vanilla OLED cannot handle this, without a proper SD card?
“SD card recommended”
No absolutely needed
Nintendo needs to ditch cartridges for their next console
It’s going to run like Microsoft Powerpoint, isn’t it?
Borderlands 3 takes a good 5 minutes to load the game from the title screen on my ps4 pro, still not optimized years after launch. I can’t imagine how long it will take on the Switch.
This has to be the biggest Switch game to date, right?
“Physical”
Bwahahahahahahaha, no. Not gonna buy physical games that require downloads to play them and 62 GB additional space is massive.
If they had used a 32GB card i could have said “they did what they could reasonably” but nope and i wouldn’t even have expected a 64GB card which almost would have been enough.
Okay this clears up the matter
Because 6.7 in the eshop was insane for this game
Nintendo needs to take a hard a stance on licensing for these situations. If your game is over 60 GB and you go for the smaller 4GB or 8GB cards, they should refuse to publish it. A minimum requirement should be the 32 GB. Or just do a digital only release. This should be a written rule on their licences, going forward. They need to reign in a bit for the benefit of the consumer, we don’t want the Nintendo of the 80s back, but some degree of control is needed.
I love physical, but I’m not touching this. If you buy this, you’re paying twice for the game’s storage.
The PC version requires 139GB of drive space. That includes all of the DLC. Those cards can only hold so much.
Oh snap. I just picked up the BL legendary collection AGAIN for like my 6th console for the switch. I’ve yet to have the opportunity to enjoy BL3 tho. Super excited, I just hope it has a decent online community
Switch 2 triple A games probably will be like this too.
Can the Switch even handle that much?
I’m praying that with the next Nintendo system I don’t need to buy a 128GB card for every game that requires a download.
Lol nope.
The switch has been such a huge success, but Nintendo need to reward the fans. Give us a new console. Switch pro or whatever, 512gb storage, 4K support and ps4 level power (give or take). It’s just horse shit how far behind the switch really is now
What’s the problem? You buy cod on ps5 with an empty disk and 200gig download
Waiting for similar info about Red Dead Redemption. It would be great if the whole game was in cartridge.
My biggest issue with this is the extremely slow download speed of the switch.
At that point the cartridge is useless
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Someone get the picture of the guy where he’s like “First time?”.
Jokes aside, yeah the game is huge.
This makes me not want to get the game. That huge file size, plus the graphics aren’t going to be anywhere close to as good as they are on other consoles and PC.
Switch is my only console and I’ve been wanting to play Borderlands 3 for awhile, and I still won’t be purchasing this.
Make some mayhem.
That’s insane, Witcher 3 complete edition (physical) requires 10gb, diablo 3 for example it’s about 15-16gb digital(don’t remember exactly) Doom Eternal is 33gb digital… eshop says borderlands 3 requires 8.4 gb, obviously it’s not the case, we Will see when it launches, i want physical but not worth it, unless digital need like 100gb or something…
if the ‘Switch 2’ doesn’t come up with a novel state of the art high capacity cartridge technology, the chances for complete physical media releases go severely down in the future, switch 1 might be the last console to have most games playable in physical media, with a few game exceptions like this one. Get ready to hoard switch 1 physical games they will go up in price
We at a point that these older games port shouldn’t come physically on the switch. They have to be digitally only and save the physical version for the next switch.
I just noticed there won’t be any splitscreen either. I have the other BL games on switch and they have all allowed splitscreen. I am betting they had to make several compromises to even get it to run in single player. Not to mention the online os only 2 player as well and not the usual 4?
Am I reading this correctly and does this bother anyone, just curious?
Can this game even run decently on the switch? It has trouble (including long load times) on a ps4.
So seems like it would be pointless to get a physical
Well that’s pointless then isn’t it.
Usual 2K antics.
So wait why does the eshop say it only requires 11.57gb of game download and 26.59gb of additional content? Where’s all the extra coming from?