https://www.westerndigital.com/products/memory-cards/sandisk-ultra-uhs-i-microsd?sku=SDSQUAC-1T50-GN6MA
It’s not cheap (unsurprising). But after spending the entire Switch lifetime with 1 TB as the max, there’s now a larger option.
I know the digital vs physical debate has been recycled 100s of times in the subreddit. For the subset of us who are all in on digital- this is exciting.
by oskie6
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I got the red mushroom 128 GB micro SD card for “free” when I bought my Lite, and can’t see myself needing an SD card bigger than that, but I am happy that this exists for the people that want it.
Even as a physical gamer, I have found myself needing to delete games off of my 1TB card to make space. To be fair, I have around 430 physical titles and about 200+ digital, but it is nice to know a 1.5TB exists, especially when a new Switch around the corner that will hopefully utilize external storage sources.
I buy physical and still have storage issues cause everything has a giant patch to download. This size is good news for everyone imho.
ITS ONLY 150$$!?!
If you want to buy every single switch game in existence, it’s perfect to have
It almost hurts my head that 512gb is only $35. Like, I just can’t. Growing up it was $35 for like 10mb. Sheesh
Edit: looked up our first PC. My memory was…relatively accurate. The floppy discs held a little over 1mb and were a little over a dollar each. Our PC was $2000 and had 64mb of storage. Ah the good times.
I just got another 1TB for my Steam Deck from TeamGroup (a respectable brand) for just $55 so this seems like a really bad deal by today’s standards.
Have a 400GB card and honestly, that’s probably more than enough for my needs
Is this available only in USA? Is it available to buy in Europe?
I bought my Switch OLED (Zelda Edition) in May and I’m still rocking the onboard memory. I download smaller indie games when they are discounted and I’ve bought larger/first party games (TOTK, Mario Kart, Mario Odyssey and Tetris Effect).
At some point I may grab a 128 or 256 GB SD card though
I don’t need it. I don’t need it.
…I NEED IT
I remember when I paid $60 for a 48gb card lmao
How many games are you guys playing at a time to need this much storage on the SWITCH lol, my 128GB gets full sometimes and even then I have a backlog of like 20 downloaded games. I’ve considered upgrading to 256 or even 512 since they’re so cheap, but even then I usually opt against it
I remember when memory cards were only mb and they seemed to cost so much 😂😂 what a world we live in
This is more for steam deck users as games are huge, 400gb or lower is good enough if you are buying physical games.
that’s absolutely insane, my ssd in my legion laptop is 1tb
Not a bad price really my 1 TB was 120 from amazon……
I think I have around 100 gigabytes of downloaded games, on my Switch I got around launch which has around 40 games downloaded on it
How someone could play 1.5 terabytes of Switch games in an entire lifetime I’ll never know
It’s incredible how cheap microSD cards have gotten. I remember looking for one for my phone back in 2015 even 16gb was expensive.
Thats 16gb you silly willy *i only saw the preview image*
It’s cheaper than what I had paid for my 1TB when they were fairly fresh! No plans to switch again at this point though!
It’s not cheap? That’s cheap as crap, I bought one of the newer 1TB micro sd cards last yr for $250. This one is the same price as most 1TB micro sd cards (not on Amazon)
How many of these would you need to install every switch game?
I would hold off on buying any more storage if the switch 2 rumors are true. We don’t know what storage medium that device will use. I wouldn’t be surprised if it will switch to nVme over SD Card due to speed concerns.
Also expect massive discounts on storage around Black Friday.
Defo gonna get this for my modded switch
My first computer had a hard drive that was megabytes. Now they’ve put 1.5 TERABYTES in to something the size of my fingernail. Wild…
Sweet thank you for bringing us this news. I’ve been archiving games for a while on my one terabyte card and waiting for a two terabyte, but I’ll definitely go for this in the meantime.
I still remember being a kid and having a computer with MS DOS, and 40MB of storage on it. Period. We had diskettes with 1.5MB storage capacity (3.5″ floppy), and some as small as 360KB space (5 1/4″ floppy). Back when I was a kid, if you wanted a 20GB HDD, it wasn’t happening, because that’d literally cost you thousands of dollars your parents did not have. Back in 1990, if you wanted a 1GB HDD, it would have ran you around $10,000, and over the course of the next 7 years, that decreased to around $1,000 per GB in 1994, then just $100 in 1997. Now you can get over 1TB, which is more than 1,000x more than that older 1GB, and WAY faster on top of that, for $150. Not per GB, just $150 total, and that still blows my mind how far we’ve come in my lifetime alone.
Can’t wait to pop this in my Vita adapter instead
Damn. I got a 400gig card years ago and it’s nowhere close to full.
I can’t imagine filling up a 1.5t card.
Currently I’m swapping between two 400GB cards and a 512 and constantly forgetting which games are on which card. $149 starts to sound pretty reasonable when I think about eliminating the annoyance of all of that.
I remember when I was in middle school my math teacher was telling me about this time picked up his first 1 MB thumb drive and it cost him a fortune! $150 is a lot, but it’s real cool to see how far we’ve come
A arm and a leg for that price
Good to see but prices will continue to drop. Shall see what the new Switch uses
In the late 90’s, my company of 45 people or so bought a network drive that we named Gigantor. It was 1GB.
It’s still so hard to fathom that it feels illegal for a 1.5 TB microSD to exist.
All consoles should consider ditching optical media and keeping/switching to cartridges since they’re great for collectors and keep better than optical media.
I love living in the future
Meanwhile Nintendo thinks 64GB built in is premium. I know it’s to keep costs down and every player has different needs, but c’mon!
I worked with digital cameras in the early 2000s and a 128mb memory card for Sony cameras was like $120. To see how far the prices have come down in just two decades is insane and awesome.
Damn. 1.5tb. Damn damn. Just think about it. 1.5tb about the size of your fingernail.
I bought a 2TB for my switch when it released, I had planned to buy all my games for digital only. But I swapped to physical only after I saw they were shutting down eShops left and right.