Lexar Ships the World's First 1 TB MicroSD Express Card for Use With Nintendo Switch 2

[blinnbanir]

That wouldn't work for Nintendo - remember, it's gotta be upgradeable by a 5 year old.

the Funny thing is that the vast majority of Nintendo sales is exactly that. It has been plenty of time though so they have caught up. I am not in the norm but my Daughter enjoys Sonic and All Star Racing just as much as Mario Kart but these will sell.

 

[ZeDestructor]

the Funny thing is that the vast majority of Nintendo sales is exactly that. It has been plenty of time though so they have caught up. I am not in the norm but my Daughter enjoys Sonic and All Star Racing just as much as Mario Kart but these will sell.

Oh, the bulk of the market is probably adults these days, but would you trust the average idiot to open up their switch and screw in an M.2 SSD? I sure wouldn't.

I would have loved to see Nintendo put a CFExpress-B slot instead, but microSD EX will do just fine.

 

[Athlonite]

Gotta love that addendum at the bottom of the pic stating speeds I bet it wasn't even tested on the Switch 2 so good luck in getting anywhere near those speeds for read/write

 

[Rover4444]

Holy shit! That's actually crazy! How viable is it as an eMMC alternative? Older cameras might not benefit from this too much when writing, but read speeds should be awesome.

 

[LabRat 891]

Holy shit! That's actually crazy! How viable is it as an eMMC alternative? Older cameras might not benefit from this too much when writing, but read speeds should be awesome.

PCIe3.0x1 bandwidth max, currently. -Uses NVMe standards, supposedly.

 

[ZeDestructor]

Holy shit! That's actually crazy! How viable is it as an eMMC alternative? Older cameras might not benefit from this too much when writing, but read speeds should be awesome.

Very viable. The only reason I would not really expect it take off is that most non-phone eMMC applications can use M.2 2230 instead. (talking of phones, if we could ditch UFS in favour of NVMe already.....)

Gotta love that addendum at the bottom of the pic stating speeds I bet it wasn't even tested on the Switch 2 so good luck in getting anywhere near those speeds for read/write

I mean, nobody outside of Nintendo has any Switch 2 to test with, and they're not gonna be talking to a tier 2 non-foundry like Lexar. In fact, odds are they are talking exclusively with SanDisk based on the Nintendo licensing. Maybe Kioxia, cause Japanese cos are quite nationalistic.

The addendum about speeds is required, cause you know full well just like I do that some moron is gonna take their shiny new microSD EX, plug it into their ancient UHS-I/UHS-II reader and bitch that they're not even getting 90MB/s.

PCIe3.0x1 bandwidth max, currently. -Uses NVMe standards, supposedly.

No "supposedly" required - it's been NVMe-over-PCIe from the very get go. Spec got updated with PCIe 4.0×1 (microSD EX and SD EX) and PCIe 4.0×2 (SD EX only) a few years ago already.