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Former devs have admitted on the record that Vita's proprietary memory existed solely because Sony corporate had no faith in the Vita and demanded it as a way to offload cost on to the consumer
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The Nintendo Thread of Existential Doom
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- bopitivity time drift-compatible haven't outsold the ps2? pathetic. is nintendo doomed? its a cereal wow new super nintendo switch 2 x turbo & knuckles nintendo nintendo cinematic universe nintendo direct-ly into my veins nintendo switch nintendoom play it loud snitches get switches switch switch it up switch port when? the splatoon 3 game for the nintendo switch system the switching hour
Former devs have admitted on the record that Vita's proprietary memory existed solely because Sony corporate had no faith in the Vita and demanded it as a way to offload cost on to the consumer
+1. The soundtrack is fantastic, and I think it might be mostly exclusive to free roam.
I feel like my notion is being misunderstood here.
Both Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2 use ancillary memory storage that differs from what came in the previous generation, with the leading factor ostensibly being that speed is the factor, in that newer titles need higher speeds than the older storage mediums can provide in order to run the new titles.
Where they differ is that while Xbox has the option of buying a proprietary storage device that provides the speed needed, you can also attach a different, more common and cheaper drive that you might have even used in that previous generation to store files and run older games on the new hardware, whereas with Nintendo, you only have the option to purchase the new storage medium in order to do anything beyond what the internal memory has.
What I am saying is not "Nintendo should allow you to attach an external hard drive to your Switch 2," but "Nintendo should allow your old microSD cards to be used on the Switch 2, not to run new games, but simply to potentially store new games as well as store/run the games you already have on there from the Switch 1.
Nintendo's may not be proprietary, but that aside, it's still a very similar situation with fewer options for the consumer than Xbox provides.
I don't know how much it influenced the decision, but it's also worth noting that the PSP had a ridiculous piracy problem, and a big factor in that was likely how effortless it was to swap a standard SD card in and out of a computer. Yes, piracy has been a problem for every console generation ever, but it looked like the OG Xbox and the PSP were two systems where even your grandma somehow had downloaded every ROM in existence. I always assumed Sony recognized this, and decided to make a proprietary format to make that kind of behavior slightly more difficult, and, if piracy was going to be a continuing thing at that level, at least they would be profiting from people wanting more space.
