 So today I find myself having to Talk about the misconceptions of the Nintendo switch in the video game marketplace Now these misconceptions aren't about the general consumers, but this is you know The adults of us that call ourselves gamers and this isn't necessarily Nintendo fans what they can include some Nintendo fans as we've seen on our channel There are plenty of Nintendo fans that don't get the switch don't understand it chastise it and that's fine I actually don't think there's anything wrong with having a negative opinion about the Nintendo switch It's not going to appeal to everyone and there's going to be decisions made with it that don't make sense for many people and One particular decision that has been getting criticized ever since NBA 2k 18 came out and And Nintendo came out at the same time and announced that you need an additional Storage card and an SD card a micro SD card To expand the storage in order to even play the physical version of NBA 2k 18 it kind of came to an affront that The switch doesn't have enough storage and I think in general all of us can agree that the switch does not have enough storage and it is Amazing that it offers micro SD expansion because micro SD cards are pretty cheap Even at 40 bucks roughly to get 128 gigabyte one if you can wait until November There's going to be black Friday sales and you might even be able to pull off one of those cards for 20 bucks And it's not it's not impossible It's not hard to find whether you want to buy your micro SD cards online or a game stop or Best Buy or Radio Shack or Even Walmart you can find micro SD cards everywhere because there are so many different devices including cameras and phones and tablets and even some you know phablets or If you want to move beyond the the tablet range of things you could be talking about certain Well, what do we call them? I guess netbooks or Google Chromebooks Can also use micro SD cards for expandable storage and many micro SD cards come with an SD card Converter so even if you just want to use a standard SD card You can get a micro SD card that comes with a converter and use it in that way as well So they're very common really easy to get generally extremely cheap to upgrade your storage Significantly on Nintendo switch and the reason that we're talking about this is because a fellow youtuber a youtuber I respect a youtuber. I watch frequently I don't catch every single video he makes but I am subscribed to his channel and generally thinks he does excellent work is rich from review tech USA that the channel itself is review tech USA But he's always like I'm rich from just like I'm Nathaniel of chance from Nintendo Prime. I get it. So he Decided to rip into an editorial That was written on Nintendo enthusiast and I'll have a link to his video and the editorial in the description below and The editorial itself from Nintendo enthusiast dealt with this controversy surrounding the storage on switch especially with NBA 2k 18 and any other game that's going to require additional storage even from the physical version and in general, I Disagree with a lot of the assessment that Nintendo enthusiast made Comparing the switch to an iPhone is just not a comparison. That's generally worth considering Because yes, the switch is a dedicated handheld device But or a dedicated home a dedicated gaming device Let's call it but the way that rich attacks it Attacks the piece shows that not only does he and all the people that agree with him but gamers in general just do not understand why certain decisions were made with the switch and A lot of people at this channel note that I'm pretty unbiased or at least I try to be when I talk about Nintendo because despite the fact that I'm a huge Nintendo fan. I don't make excuses for them when they're doing something that's stupid and While I wish there was more storage in the Nintendo switch I do think the switch would have to cost more money for that to happen and Here's the arguments that rich essentially presents He keeps talking about how you should be comparing the switch not to tablets and phones But to the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 because those are the systems that is directly competing with but here's the thing When you're going to make that comparison to the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 We have to remember the significant differences. The only meant differences. He mentions that yes You could take the switch on the go. It's got a screen and it's slightly portable. It's not slightly portable It's completely portable. I don't know why he keeps using the term slightly But he compares it to play stitch for Xbox one with their 500 gigabytes and the one terabytes and he doesn't admit Obviously, you're not going to be able to fit a mechanical drive inside the switch And yada yada yada He admits that it's easier and cheaper to get that storage on those devices But what he does he fails to mention is the reason those devices require that internal storage those systems require games physical or digital to be installed on the hard drive it is a significant difference between the switch and The Xbox one and PlayStation 4 a vast majority of the content on Nintendo switch does not need to be installed unless you buy digitally That's just the reality we live in so he's ignoring the entire physical aspect of the Nintendo switch Just because there's going to be a handful or more of games on the switch that are even with the physical version You'll need a micro SD card. That's fine There are plenty of people who are gonna buy the Nintendo switch that are never going to buy those games and are never going to need to upgrade their storage because they keep buying physical only and Even when he talks about the storage on the system He says oh you can install Breath of the Wild in a couple indie games and then you're basically done That's actually wrong. You can install Breath of the Wild Splatoon 2 And I believe Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a couple indie games before you're done Because he's massively overstating the size of Nintendo's games And he's actually massively over stating the size of games on Nintendo switch because Breath of the Wild until NBA 2k 18 releases Breath of the Wild was the largest game to date on the system. It was only 13 gigs And so when he's like talking about how you know Super Mario Odyssey could end up being one of those massive games It's probably gonna be smaller than Breath of the Wild Maybe it'll be bigger or maybe it'll be around the same size But in general Nintendo's games are just not big the whole reason that they could go with the storage medium and the cartridges Like they did is because Nintendo games do not exceed 30 gigabytes. They don't exceed 13 gigabytes like 13 gigabytes I might I'd have to go through Nintendo's history But that might be the biggest game Nintendo's ever made in terms of game size, you know file size So yeah, it's a complete misunderstanding here when you compare the switch and the Xbox one and the PlayStation 4 together You have to consider the differences between the systems and reality is for most consumers when you buy a Nintendo switch You're never going to need that storage if you just buy physical versions of the game now There is a point to be made that when you buy an Xbox one or PlayStation 4 You can play any game ever released on that platform. Maybe you can only play six of them I don't know it depends on the size of the game But you can play any game released on that platform without buying anything else no extra controllers No extra peripherals no extra anything you could just play any game released on that platform and With the switch that's technically not going to be 100% true as an example You can't play NBA 2k 18 just buying NBA 2k 18 and buying the switch You'll have to buy an accessory in this case a micro SD card So that is a point that works in Microsoft and Sony's favor and it does suck that Nintendo couldn't have the base storage Inside the Nintendo switch at 64 gigabytes because if they had done that Suddenly the requirement of micro SD cards for for certain physical games would completely vanish and the switch is actually set up in a unique way with the hardware where the NAND flash memory is modular and there's even like an extra connector inside of the switch That's not being used right now. That's near the modular memory Suggesting that in the future Nintendo switch was already set up to have additional memory in it and the reason At least I feel like it's a pretty obvious reason that the Nintendo switch does not have that additional memory at launch And especially in this first year is because of the cost to consumers Nintendo had a very specific price point. They wanted to hit with the switch It's highly duffel They wanted to go above 299 99 because we're talking about an area where Nintendo needs to hit a specific price point And because people are going to compare to PlayStation 4 and Xbox one It has to be in a comparable price range and they work They can't release it at 199 because they would be losing significant money on every unit sold And I've heard even that the 299 99 price that Nintendo is barely making a profit per unit sold So it's almost at cost at 299 99 So if they would have doubled the memory size the double the NAND flash memory size You're talking about at least a $50 price hike if not a hundred dollar price hike And I don't know, you know, if it would be 50 or a hundred This is where the comparison to smart devices comes in because While I do not think it's fair to directly compare a dedicated gaming device to smart devices the smart devices as Rich points out are primarily communication devices that can play games And even if you think about how you use it, you know, if you're using Facebook, that's a communication platform If you're using Twitter, that's a communication platform even watching YouTube videos again a form of communication So I I get that that's what smart devices are primarily for that and they can happen to game And I actually think there are some excellent games on those devices But they are not dedicated gaming platforms But the switch is still comparable because despite the fact that it's a dedicated gaming platform We all know the Nintendo switch is built with smart device technology It is using NAND flash, which is what smart devices use It is using a mobile unit in the Tegra X1 using mobile types of RAM using mobile everything in fact the main difference between the switch and Say a smart device in terms of the tech inside of it is that they're cooling it with an active fan Which you are typically not going to find on a phone or tablet Maybe there's a tablet out there somewhere that has it but as far as like I'm just thinking right now I can't even think of a tablet that even has Physical fan inside of it with active cooling. So that that's just the the general benefit of it being a gaming First platform or right now a gaming only platform is that it? prioritized, you know getting better performance out of the parts inside of it by having active cooling and At the same point it's still built with the same technology So when it's built with the mobile technology Trying to become a gaming platform on top of it You're left between a rock in a hard place because all that stuff inside of the switch is not cheap It is more expensive to build a switch with mobile technology to try to be a powerful gaming device Then it is to use traditional off-the-shelf parts like the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 use even with the customizable Fabrications processes and everything they are using stuff that is generally cheaper to make in comparison to say a Tegra X1 And while it's a off-the-shelf Tegra X1 inside Nintendo switch. It's Expensive to make those Tegras It's expensive for the screen even at 720p. It's expensive for everything on mobile devices Nothing is cheap to do now. He brings up a comparison where some smart devices are cheaper You know you can get certain smart devices under $200 that have more storage But here's the thing those smart devices are not as powerful as the Nintendo switch So when you're talking about devices that do not compare comparably in terms of the tech inside it with the Nintendo switch This is without even including the joy cons or the dock or cables or anything else Just the the tablet unit when you're comparing a really cheap budget Android device to the switch which is significantly more powerful than that device you start to lose the comparison there because That device that is cheaper and that Android device is cheaper. That's not as powerful That's a little sluggish is fine But they prioritized storage over other specs in the device whereas Nintendo prioritized Performance over storage because they have physical carts for their device that 95% of those physical carts will never require an SD card. So in summary here I feel like rich is kind of an encapsulation of the general reaction from gamers over this SD card fiasco where I agree in principle that the switch should at least have 64 gigs So then we would never see a Physical version of a game release that says micro SD card required I would I think that is something Nintendo is going to target and do in 2018 So I mentioned they have a modular memory unit as soon as the prices come down on other components They're going to be able to upgrade the flash storage and keep the switch at the exact same price in 2018 In fact, they might even phase out the 32 gigabyte models and that might upset some concurrent owners but you know, sometimes that's just the price you pay for early adoption is Is that you know, you're gonna have a better device in 2018 for the same price And I don't even that's a problem because if that bothers you so much like go spend 20 bucks and get an extra 32 gigs or it's even less than that you can get like 64 gigs extra for 20 bucks in your switch. So it yeah, it's To me, this is all kind of silly And it kind of shows the continued misconceptions about the Nintendo switch in the marketplace because as much as Nintendo Advertises it as a console a console a console It is a traditional home console that you could take with you on the go We all know that it's primarily a portable that can be played at home on a TV The entire system is designed around the portability and you literally have a plastic dock You have to slide the system into to work on your TV So it is definitely a portable first home console second And yes, you can use it as a home console first or a home console only device and that is perfectly fine but I feel like that General gamers out there just even the ones that like the switch because rich likes the switch He loves the Nintendo switch He thinks it's a fantastic device and he likes the games on it But I feel like even he has misconceptions here over why some of these Comparisons about PlayStation 4 and Xbox one to switch and switch to smartphones And why some of these comparisons don't make sense and why some of them do and The comparisons of smart devices is because the switch is using smart device technology inside it And the one reason that comparisons to PlayStation 4 Xbox one don't work very well is because one those are traditional under box things They use a different type of storage and those systems require game installs Nintendo system only does that if you buy digital games and Well, that's a growing market Nintendo address that mark I say look if you want to go digital only we are offering you a cheap solution to expand your storage But we're not going to push that extra storage that extra pricing onto all of our consumers Because there's a lot of consumers that are perfectly fine going physical only and the Nintendo switch is even highly unique And this is tell me this if this is true of other platforms The Nintendo switch seems to have a ton of indie games Releasing in physical formats the binding of Isaac as an example, but that's just one There's so many indie games that are releasing in a physical format on Nintendo switch And on top of this part of the issue at least right now This is obviously gonna be an issue in the future when you have games over 32 gigabytes Nintendo offers 32 gigabyte cards the Mba 2k 18 is only 25 gigs Technically it could fit on the 32 gigabyte card They are choosing to not use the 32 gigabyte card to cut costs to 2k And instead say and look because other systems do have installs and downloads We're just gonna give you about half the game on like a 15 gig cart to for your switch Which saves us money and just let you download the rest of it onto your car onto your SD card And the fact that it requires an SD card You know because you think that there's 15 gigs of the game on this thing You should only have to download like you know 10 gigs that I have plenty of storage for that Unfortunately, I think they're gonna they're basically gonna be installing the game off the cartridge and via download Almost like the cartridge is a disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox one And that's because that's how they treat those systems So they're just gonna treat it the same on switch and whatever we can't do anything about third parties making those decisions But it's actually the fact that it's taken up until what are we? System released in March. We're six plus months out and we still right now until the 15th Have yet to have a game come out that requires a micro SD card to play That lets you know that this is really a minor issue for Nintendo switch and Primarily when people buy Nintendo switch, they're not gonna be buying it for those games They're not gonna be buying it for NBA 2k 18 or for LA no R They're buying it for the exclusive content that is nowhere near the size of those games And on top of that that exclusive content is generally gonna come from Nintendo or Nintendo's partners And that content is gonna be fully available on a cartridge that you could slide into your system I highly doubt you're ever gonna see Nintendo release a game on switch that they created or they help fund That is not gonna be just 100% natively on those cartridges So this is just a situation that is being completely blown out of proportion. It is disappointing I do agree the switch should have more base storage should have double the base storage it has And I also believe Nintendo is going to give us that in 2018 at least by holiday 2018 But at the same point we have to recognize that if the switch was more expensive While it still might be selling well It could be a 3ds situation where it's just priced slightly too high at launch and it really impacts long-term sales and in general The sacrifice to 32 gigabytes to keep the cost down on the consumer and is a fair trade-off when 90 Right now 100% of the library does not require an SD card to enjoy that content. So, yeah Again, the switch is a dedicated gaming device I just don't think it's fair to compare it to PlayStation 4 and Xbox one or is it fair to compare directly to smart devices? Nintendo kind of exists in their own realm and this is what sucks is just because it's a home console Doesn't mean it's a direct competitor to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one because the switch isn't going for the same audience and It frustrates me when people keep thinking that Consoles I mean just competing with the PlayStation 4. I'm like no it's a portable home console. That's an entirely different concept. Oh man What I'm saying is it's perfectly reasonable that own a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo switch for for completely different reasons. I Man anyways folks I'm a very frustrated and a rough a chance just gaming communities getting it wrong again And I understand that I'm obviously gonna have a tendency to defend Nintendo But the thing is I agree that Nintendo should have more storage. I just think it's ridiculous Some of the criticism is coming out against Nintendo when you're comparing it to systems that require game installs It is one of the most annoying things about the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 is that when I buy a physical game I have to use a hard drive space to play it. Oh my what's like? Why buy physical why buy physical on PlayStation 4 and Xbox one There's literally no benefit to it besides reselling of games. Remember we're supposed to hate the resell market You're supposed to hold on to your games. So oh man Sorry, I guess that Nintendo made physical products or physical versions of games a viable medium in 2017 I guess that's what I have to apologize for Nintendo thinking of people who don't want to buy everything digitally Anyways folks, I am with and a ruffle dance from Nintendo Prime. If you like this video You know what to do and if you dislike the video hit this dislike button or hit that dislike button Oh my god. I can't even speak right now. 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