Last month, it was revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will take up 13.4 GB on the Nintendo Switch, prompting concerns that gamers will be forced to buy SD cards for the hybrid console as its internal storage is only 32 GB.
A recently reported leak, however, revealed that only about 26 GB of free space will be available on the hybrid console out of the box, which is certainly not good news for gamers who were planning to go fully digital with the Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo of Japan has now released the digital download sizes for several titles for the Nintendo Switch, revealing even more bad news and highlighting another problem for the hybrid console.
Digital Sizes Of Nintendo Switch Games
In the Japanese website of Nintendo, the video game company revealed how much space several games of the Nintendo Switch will take up in the hybrid console's internal memory.
In addition to the already known 13.4 GB size of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo revealed the digital sizes of the following titles: Puyo Puyo Tetris at 1.09 GB; I Am Setsuna at 1.40 GB; Snipperclips: Cut It Out, Together! at 1.60 GB; Nobunaga's Ambition at 5 GB; Disgaea 5 at 5.92 GB; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 7 GB; and finally, Dragon Quest Heroes I & II at 32 GB.
Dragon Quest Heroes I & II by itself could not even fit into the internal storage of the Nintendo Switch, with the website stating that the game will require players to have a separate SD card to install and play the title through a digital copy.
Gamers who go with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, meanwhile, will have less than 6 GB left after only those two games installed.
Fortunately, unlike Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One, physical games that will be played on the Nintendo Switch will not require an installation, so running out of storage space is only a glaring problem for digital copies.
Another Nintendo Switch Problem
One of the main selling points of the Nintendo Switch is its portability, as gamers are allowed to remove the hybrid console from its dock and play the device on the go as a portable gaming system. However, with the internal storage of the Nintendo Switch limited to only 26 GB, gamers who purchase the Nintendo Switch primarily for its portability will need to bring along with them either cartridges or SD cards, which is slightly inconvenient but not really a deal-breaker.
In addition, while the problem of the Nintendo Switch's limited internal storage can be addressed by purchasing additional SD cards, it presents an extra cost to owning the hybrid console. Plus there is the complexity of having to manage SD cards, as opposed to the simplicity of downloading digital games into a mobile device to have easy access to all of them.
The cramped internal storage for the Nintendo Switch will not likely cause it to fail by itself, but it does go against what Nintendo claims to be the hybrid console's core strengths of flexibility and convenience.
