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Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld (beehaw.org)
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Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks.

Its almost comical, for a small stick the 3ds stick is better than any joycon stick.

And also, internal storage being only 32 GB, and cart games being downloaded in full to the system.

The switch is a mess. At least the games emulate well.

That's not even going into the online ransom shit.

And the dock sucks too. Would it have killed Nintendo to add like 2 more USB ports and an Ethernet port.

And not related but powera can eat shit

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[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

So, let's take botw, about 10 GB.

If you put the cart in, it downloads, you get hose 10 GB on the system. And you'll also need the CSRT for DRM reasons or shit

[-] nave@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It doesn’t download the game if you have a physical copy. I just checked my switch and my physical copy of botw is using 0 mb of storage.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Further to this - it doesn’t download cart data to the Switch/SD card, but it does store save data, update data and DLC data on the Switch/SD card. So while BOTW may not download its whole 10Gb onto the Switch, you may end up with a few Gb in other data that’s locally stored.

[-] Domiku@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

OK - I thought this was the case, but wasn’t sure. At any rate, a microSD card is a good purchase (but that’s true for all of these handhelds).

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I’d almost say it’s an essential purchase. I buy a fair few online titles and I’ve found my 128Gb SD to be a bit lacking. I’m considering upgrading to a 256Gb or 512Gb but they’re still too expensive at high transfer rates.

If you have to choose between capacity and transfer rate for an SD card for a Switch, go for transfer. I had an old slow card and that was abhorrent for load times and stuttering on games that were stored there.

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