Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
nave@lemmy.ca 2 months agoIt doesn’t download the game though? I just checked my switch and my physical copy of botw is using 0 mb of storage.
Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
nave@lemmy.ca 2 months agoIt doesn’t download the game though? I just checked my switch and my physical copy of botw is using 0 mb of storage.
Instigate@aussie.zone 2 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 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 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.