Prepare your micro SD. Most Switch 2 launch titles size have been revealed.

marquimvfs

marquimvfs

Member
According to a datamine done by Mondo Mega, those are the sizes of most Switch 2 launch titles that are present on the japanese My Nintendo files.
  • Deltarune – 650 MB
  • Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour – 2.0 GB
  • Tamagotchi Plaza – 2.2 GB
  • Survival Kids – 2.5 GB
  • Nintendo GameCube – Nintendo Classics – 3.5 GB
  • Fast Fusion – 3.9 GB
  • Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 S – 3.9 GB
  • Shine Post: Be Your Idol! – 7.4 GB
  • Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – 7.8 GB
  • Donkey Kong Bananza – 9.7 GB
  • Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars – 10.7 GB
  • Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster – 11.0 GB
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World – 11.4 GB
  • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess – 11.7 GB
  • Super Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV – 13.0 GB
  • Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army – 17.0 GB
  • Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma – 18.5 GB
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 19.9 GB
  • Mario Kart World – 23.4 GB
  • Sonic X Shadow Generations – 23.4 GB
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 24.1 GB
  • Sonic X Shadow Generations Digital Deluxe Edition – 24.4 GB
  • Fortnite – 29.2 GB
  • Yakuza 0 Director's Cut – 47.0 GB
  • Street Fighter 6 – 48.8 GB
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition – 56.8 GB
  • Hitman World of Assassination – 61.5 GB
  • Split Fiction – 73.0 GB
 
Palis said:
73GB for Split Fiction is actually insane, are we actually talking about 30% of the Switch's internal memory?
Click to expand...
I'm actually glad that they're not trying to dumb down the SW2 versions. The more ginormous games we see, more pressure Nintendo will face to increase the inner storage. Also, SDs will be cheaper with the increased need.
 
I'm good without a card for awhile.

I only plan on having BOTW, TOTK, GameCube and a few OG Switch games that I haven't finished so I'm barely gonna break the 100GB mark.
 
marquimvfs said:
According to a datamine done by Mondo Mega, those are the sizes of most Switch 2 launch titles that are present on the japanese My Nintendo files.
  • Deltarune – 650 MB
  • Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour – 2.0 GB
  • Tamagotchi Plaza – 2.2 GB
  • Survival Kids – 2.5 GB
  • Nintendo GameCube – Nintendo Classics – 3.5 GB
  • Fast Fusion – 3.9 GB
  • Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 S – 3.9 GB
  • Shine Post: Be Your Idol! – 7.4 GB
  • Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – 7.8 GB
  • Donkey Kong Bananza – 9.7 GB
  • Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars – 10.7 GB
  • Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster – 11.0 GB
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World – 11.4 GB
  • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess – 11.7 GB
  • Super Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV – 13.0 GB
  • Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army – 17.0 GB
  • Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma – 18.5 GB
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 19.9 GB
  • Mario Kart World – 23.4 GB
  • Sonic X Shadow Generations – 23.4 GB
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 24.1 GB
  • Sonic X Shadow Generations Digital Deluxe Edition – 24.4 GB
  • Fortnite – 29.2 GB
  • Yakuza 0 Director's Cut – 47.0 GB
  • Street Fighter 6 – 48.8 GB
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition – 56.8 GB
  • Hitman World of Assassination – 61.5 GB
  • Split Fiction – 73.0 GB
Click to expand...

How on earth is Tears of the Kingdom smaller than Breath of the Wild?
 
Seems like I won't need an SD card anytime soon at this pace, I expect Hyrule Warriors to be around 20GB and Pokemon Legends the same.

Had a 256GB Steam Deck since launch and I never felt the need for more space anyway.
 
Hideous Snake said:
Thankfully I only play Nintendo games on Nintendo consoles
Click to expand...
Same since I got PC for everything else so Nintendo is the only one that has true exclusives.

I should be good without getting any extra memory with

Metroid Prime 4 and 5 and whatever new Metroid game comes.

The next brand new AAA Zelda game. And whatever new Zelda game.

Mario Kart World

Mario Party World whenever it comes in a couple of years hopefully.
 
4K texture pack

dj khaled GIF by AMAs
 
Seems fine to me. I'll go with game cards most of the time, and I won't have many 50GB+ games on the go on the Switch 2 anyway, and by the time I do I'll have bought a microSD card.

It would have been nice for the main storage to have been an NVME SSD, but I think that would have increased power consumption.
 
marquimvfs said:
I'm actually glad that they're not trying to dumb down the SW2 versions. The more ginormous games we see, more pressure Nintendo will face to increase the inner storage. Also, SDs will be cheaper with the increased need.
Click to expand...
Nintendo will not take that as a sign to increase inner storage, no way. There was already tons of huge file size Switch 1 games, and what was their answer with the OLED? 64gb, which was still a joke.
 
marquimvfs said:
Fortnite – 29.2 GB
Click to expand...

yeah no way this is accurate... unless they go the mobile route and ask you to download high res textures on top of that.
so it could be that size, but looks like an N64 game without downloading the proper console quality assets.
 
Last edited:
Shaki12345 said:
How on earth is Tears of the Kingdom smaller than Breath of the Wild?
Click to expand...

probably better optimised due to newer and better texture compression formats they added to the engine.
it would probably be too much work to retrofit that to Breath of the Wild
 
Last edited:
Shaki12345 said:
That was my guess at well. Still interesting.
Click to expand...

another possible explanation (at least to some degree) can be that BotW was originally a Wii U game, and the game data could have multiple copies of some assets in its data, because it was optimised to load from a slow Bluray drive.
having often used assets saved multiple times across multiple spots on the Bluray disc helps with seek times while streaming data.

meanwhile TotK is a Switch exclusive, and therefore only ever needs to load from NAND chips that have essentially no seek time, so they didn't need to have duplicates of assets.
 
Last edited:
kevboard said:
another possible explanation (at least to some degree) can be that BotW was originally a Wii U game, and the game data could have multiple copies of some assets in its data, because it was optimised to load from a slow Bluray drive.
having often used assets saved multiple times across multiple spots on the Bluray disc helps with seek times while streaming data.

meanwhile TotK is a Switch exclusive, and therefore only ever needs to load from NAND chips that have essentially no seek time, so they didn't need to have duplicates of assets.
Click to expand...
Interesting. Seems more plausible to me. In the end Nintendo probably didn't want to go back and shave those GB's of BotW.
 
kevboard said:
probably better optimised due to newer and better texture compression formats they added to the engine.
it would probably be too much work to retrofit that to Breath of the Wild
Click to expand...
They are using better compression indeed. In BOTW it's their own "magic" compression which is just a simple variation of LZ77. In TOTK they are using zstd
 
Last edited:
Shaki12345 said:
Interesting. Seems more plausible to me. In the end Nintendo probably didn't want to go back and shave those GB's of BotW.
Click to expand...

it's probably a combination of both.
also, I just remembered another detail that might have affected the size.

when the Switch launched it was missing a hardware mode that got added a few months after launch.
and BotW was developed without that hardware mode being available for the devs to optimise around.

that hardware mode allowed developers to downclock the GPU while massively overclocking the CPU to 1.7ghz (from 1.0ghz) during loading screens, which helps decompress data on the CPU.
Breath of the Wild's initial load times and fast travel times had to be optimised around a 1.0ghz CPU, so compression couldn't be too extreme or it would slow down loading dramatically.
meanwhile for Tears of the Kingdom they could optimise their initial and fast travel loading screens around a 1.7ghz CPU speed.
so even if they didn't get better compression methods, that CPU speed difference alone would have allowed them to use more aggressive compression, even without better technology.
 
Last edited:
Shaki12345 said:
Interesting. Seems more plausible to me. In the end Nintendo probably didn't want to go back and shave those GB's of BotW.
Click to expand...

It'd be more work than just removing the duplicates, as where each asset is duplicated will likely have the relevant code only call those specific duplicates.

Stripping just the duplicates would break the game.

Considering it's only a few GBs difference, it won't have been worth the effort.
 
I usually do not complain about prices and so on, because , people know their budget and how much they an spend on this kind of things, but storage is my only complaint about the Switch 2, and even more know, that 2gb, 10gb, 16gb games are not in the cart. But you can buy an SD card, how many SD card I will need to have ? 256gb of storage , who know how much the OS takes, if I buy Yakuza 0, Sf 6 and Mario Kart, there will go +100 GB, most of the games are 40gb , I will be able to have like 5 games and need a SD card for other things.

I really wish we had a way to keep the games in the dock or something like that. Hope that this is only for the initial batch, and later we can have this games up to 32g in a cart, else, the appeal of physical releases will be hard.

And man, I hope the eshop holds up, every person that just got a switch trying to download hundreds of GB of data from it, at the same time. I think it will not be pretty.
 
Everyone's out here complaining about the $80 games while I'm ready to buy a $400 2TB express card 🫠
 
Last edited:
kevboard said:
you said 1TB drive... I humorously tried to react to that as it's very unusual to call an SD card a "Drive", as 1TB Drive usually implies you meant an SSD or HDD, neither of which would be compatible.
Click to expand...

.....


It is based on the nvme architecture so maybe that's why.

6c4dda6b-382b-4899-b3e9-ce019355e47a_text.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

TLOZ Tears of the Kingdom should have been a Switch 2 launch exclusive
2
85
921
Zannegan replied
Major media outlets will not have Nintendo Switch 2 reviews at launch
News  2 3 4
199
3K
Mozza replied
Elden Ring Nightreign not being a Switch 2 launch title is a big loss.
16
725
Ar¢tos replied
Switch 2 - What Are You Getting at Launch?
2 3 4
155
2K
Darko replied
  • Locked
Rumour: Most GameStop stores expecting less than 100 Switch 2 consoles at launch
Rumor 
5
497
Orpheus replied
Top Bottom