Games have gotten freaking huge in the last decade. Some stuff like can reach as high as into the triple digits of gigabytes. Luckily, Nintendo is a bit of an exception. The Japanese game developer has managed to keep its file sizes on the lower side, at least when compared against the industry standard. One of its largest first-party titles on the Nintendo Switch is 2023’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which measures in at a tad over 16GB.
The issue with Nintendo lies with the amount of storage actually on its console. While Microsoft and Sony ship their flagship consoles with around a full 1TB, the original Nintendo Switch launched with only a measly 32GB of internal eMMC storage. That Zelda game already takes up more than half. Then the third-party Nintendo Switch titles grow even larger. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition comes in at 39.3GB. That’s more than the Switch has on board, making it impossible to download without additional storage.
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Thankfully, you can expand your internal storage several times over with a microSDXC card. Samsung happens to have on with an entire 1TB you can install on your Nintendo Switch. That ends up increasing your capacity to download games by 3,000%.
