The Nintendo Switch’s biggest failure is a massive opportunity for the future
I love the Switch, to the point where I can forgive many of its shortcomings. Sure, it can’t do 4K. It often can’t muster a stable performance. It’s inundated with terrible ports. Oh, and the online infrastructure could be much, much better.
All things worthy of criticism. But they’ve never been outright deal breakers for me. After all, if I let higher frame rates and resolutions dictate my purchasing habits, I’d be missing out on many of the best Nintendo Switch games around. Games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the recently released Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, to name just a few.
But there’s one thing that seriously irks me about the Nintendo Switch. Not just the base console, but also the Nintendo Switch OLED. And that’s the downright paltry amount of storage space – something the company will need to address for its future hardware endeavors.
The Switch might be an epochal improvement over the Wii U, but it seems like Nintendo wasn’t too interested in addressing one of that system’s many flaws. The basic, white variant of the Wii U came with a measly 8GB of storage. Only if you were willing to pay more for the Deluxe pack would you get a shiny black console with 32 GB of storage.
That’s actually where we stand with the base Switch model, too. The handheld hybrid launched in 2017 with just 32GB of storage space. And in 2021, we got the Nintendo Switch OLED, which doubled that number to 64GB. But in the grand scheme of things, that’s still far below what the competition is offering.
On PS5, you’re getting 1TB on both the physical and digital versions. It’s a similar story with Microsoft: 1TB on Xbox Series X, and 512GB on Xbox Series S. These can be further bolstered by
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