Nintendo reportedly delays 64GB game cartridges and it might affect the Switch's popu
 

Nintendo reportedly delays 64GB game cartridges and it might affect the Switch's popularity
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2017 was a big year for Nintendo's Switch, but a pretty big delay might slow things way down.*

According to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday, Nintendo has told outside developers that it is delaying 64-gig game cartridges for the Switch until 2019.*

With its newest flagship console, Nintendo decided to bring back cartridges in place of disc-based games that ran on the previous three. Cartridges cost more to produce, but they are far more portable and decrease loading times.*

Currently, the game cartridges, which outside developers get from Nintendo, are capped at 32 gigs. That's lower than the 50-gig Blu-ray discs that run on the other current consoles: Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Not only that, but many games require significant patches on release, putting their total size much higher.* Read more...

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