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As of mid-December, Nintendo sold 10 million Switch consoles worldwide, after around 9 months of availability. The Switch outpaced sales of most other consoles in their initial months, except for the PS4.
Some big titles like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (an influence on Zelda: Breath of the Wild) have been ported to Nintendo Switch. But the ability to port certain games may be hindered by the delayed release of 64 GB "game cards" (proprietary ROM cartridges) for the system:
Those wishing for 64GB Nintendo Switch game cards will have to keep waiting. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Nintendo pushed back the rollout of 64GB game cards until 2019, citing "technical issues" as the problem. Game developers get Switch cards from Nintendo, so this means that they'll have to wait to get game cards that can support big titles.
[...] Nintendo initially attempted to alleviate the storage issue with the Switch's microSD card slot, which can hold an extra 2TB of space. However, 2TB microSD cards aren't available yet, and not every microSD card is the same. Some big titles require high-speed microSD cards to run properly.
While many mobile devices and the Nintendo Switch can support up to 2 TB of microSD storage, the largest currently in production is SanDisk's 400 GB card, which currently retails for $250.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by damnbunni on Thursday December 28 2017, @09:35AM
Depends on the game.
Some third-party games are on cartridge and still need a download. Nintendo currently has cards up to 32GB, but the publisher didn't want to pay for more than 16GB, so they put the rest as a download/patch.
NBA2K18 is the worst - a 24 gig patch to play at all.
Doom isn't so bad - the download is 9 gigs, but you only need it if you want to play multiplayer online.
Lots of single-player games do have patches or optional DLC, though. Zelda has a fairly large paid expansion that adds quests and bosses, for instance.