@souljah, the key word in my post was "ALL"

The industry moved away from carts almost 20yrs ago because of the limitations carts present. Having a system with carts in 2017 isnt a plus.

Edit: souljaboy you act like you cant trade or sell a cd......

@peewee11016:

CDs do not hold patches or save files. Carts can. I know it is fun to ignore the facts while calling others stupid but when the truth is so obvious, it only serves to make you look like a fool.

@NotoriousWhiz:

Anyone who cares about collectibility or being able to resell/trade the game when they are done with it.

@Kokyu:

People moved away from carts 20 years ago because of the limitations of ROM media that was available back then. Modern flash media has advanced far beyond any disk. It is the same type of memory used in SD cards, USB flash drives and SSDs. A 12X 4-layer bluray disk is 100GB of storage and operates at 54MB/s. Modern flash memory chips have storage caps in the 256GB range (Per chip, SSDs use multiple chips) and can have a read speed upwards of 1500MB/s (Not a typo, ~28x faster than bluray). Even a 32GB card will actually be better than a 100GB bluray due to the ability to compress data on it and have it decompressed on the fly. No format of disk has the speed to do that. You will never need to install anything to HDD with carts. You can actually install patches and theoretically even DLC (If Nintendo decides to design them that way) to the cart which further increases collectibility, as 1-time activation DLC codes become obsolete. When you resell the cart, you sell all the DLC/patches with it.

@kayoss:

The average Switch game will most likely be compressed down to <16GB, with the larger games capping at 32GB. A 2-4GB secondary memory reserve on the carts would be enough for compressed patches and DLC. Nintendo has always optimized file sizes alot better than Sony or MS and they also have the advantage of being able to heavily compress the data this time around, due to the read speed of the flash media.

@Peewee

Is that why I have to manually install them on my pS4?

Sorry but what about patches and updates? 32gb for just patches alone is not enough.

Lets all take a deep breath and just relax. those who say that switch games are going to have large patches need to realize this is nintendo we are talking about. not sony or ms where by games are released unfinished and have such large downloads to patch the game.

For all we know, nintendo will require the games be finished products with the option to have extra content be available (like it used to be). I can say that I only have one game that had any extra content not found on the disc for the wiiu and that is mario kart 8.

the core of the game is completely intact as it should be for any games released. Knowing the 'limited' storage capacity will cause developers to release finished products to switch unlike other platforms.

So im going to have to carry around carts now? Why would you do this when things are going heavily digital? This is about as stupid as their launch lineup.

you assume that 3rd party switch games are going to be like ps4 and xb1 games. As in unfinished and requiring such large patches.

In reality we know nothing of 3rd party development on the switch and if the games will be complete releases or rushed to market. Only time will tell.