you have no idea what you are talking about dude. it's 2017 not the 90s. a cheap smartphone has more storage than the Switch.
I don't care how you spend your money, but don't try to sugar coat all of the stupid things Nintendo is doing.
you can download many games for the 3DS just fine as the biggest ones are between 250 and 500MB. (3DS XL has 4GB internal storage). you won't have to touch an SD for a very long time.
also you don't understand that only a small minority read tech news like we do. the majority don't even know that you have to pay to play online on the PS4/xbox one and they find out only after they buy the console.
Some smartphones do have more storage than the Switch, but have you ever paused to consider why?
You can criticize and bash whatever the **** nintendo is doing, most people do, but have you taken the time to do an analysis, some critical thinking, on
why things are?
Hardware isn't build at random, Nintendo didn't throw components at the wall and see what stuck.
When you're engineering a new piece of hardware you have three primary constraints:
Cost,
size and
power.
Using your cheap smartphone example, you could try and run BotW on it, but it simply wouldn't. It doesn't have the
power for it. You could make it more powerful, but that also would increase it's
cost.
Let's assume you did beef it up, now you have a bigger handheld that can run BotW. It's bigger because, among other things, it also needs proper ventilation, or it'd do like the Note 7, so you have to increase the
size as well. It can run it, but not for very long at all. You still have the 2-3k mAh battery, which will only last you an hour or two at the very best. So, you want a bigger battery. You swap it out with a bigger one, but you can't minimize batteries. So, to increase the battery, you increased again both the
cost and
size of your handheld.
So, your handheld is starting to get pretty big and pretty expensive. You have to cut down somewhere, or it'll be too expense and/or too big to be an attractive handheld for your customer base. You can't cut down in processing/graphical power, nor can you do it in the battery nor in the screen. At least, not beyond a certain point. But you still have compromises to make.
A
very attractive compromise that you can make is the disk size. Your games will come in essentially SD card roms, you won't need much disk space at all for your consumers who buy physical. For those who buy digital, you can use SD cards, which have the added benefit of being modular. You can have 10 games in one, 12 in another and just carry them both and swap them out, seeing as the cards don't occupy much space at all. This is beneficial, seeing as you're not charging consumers for disk space they might not use and are cutting down both on the price and size of the handheld itself.
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Of course, this is all an anecdote, but it should be roughly how the process went. There are no miracles in hardware. Could it come with more onboard memory? Sure, but you'd be paying for it.
you have no idea what you are talking about dude. it's 2017 not the 90s.
And yet, we still carry cartridges, disks and I still don't have a hoverboard.
a cheap smartphone has more storage than the Switch.
And a lot less processing and graphical power, a small battery, a worse screen and no controllers!
you can download many games for the 3DS just fine as the biggest ones are between 250 and 500MB. (3DS XL has 4GB internal storage). you won't have to touch an SD for a very long time.
And you blame me of not knowing what I'm talking about.
HAH. Here's a
handy list for reference. Those aren't even the biggest ones. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is 21,330 Blocks / 2667MB, nearly 2.7 GB. Pokemon X and Y are 1.7 GB. Pokemon Sun and Moon?
3.2 GB. SSB4 ? Also
a handy 2.1 GB. Next time, use
Google first.
The first thing I had to do when I got a 3DS, was getting a decent SD card.
I don't care how you spend your money, but don't try to sugar coat all of the stupid things Nintendo is doing.
And I don't care how you spend your time, but please don't spread misinformation.
also you don't understand that only a small minority read tech news like we do. the majority don't even know that you have to pay to play online on the PS4/xbox one and they find out only after they buy the console.
The onus is on the consumer, to inform themselves. The information is available and well publicized, that's not an argument.