10 Crucial Things The Nintendo Switch Must Do In Year One

3. Offer Plenty Of Storage

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Whether it’s cloud-based storage, flash memory on-board or an SD card slot at the bottom of the Switch screen, this new machine needs storage space and plenty of it.

Again, this may also depend on the extent of the eShop and Virtual Console offerings in the beginning months, but remember that the Wii U offered Wii games in the eShop that could take up anywhere between a couple and several GB - the Metroid Prime Trilogy being a popular title just shy of 8GB. Couple that with downloadable versions of actual Wii U titles taking up between just over 2GB of space for Splatoon and more than 9GB for Paper Mario: Colour Splash then that 32GB internal storage shrinks too quickly for many.

External hard drives are fine for the Wii U as it sits at home underneath the TV permanently for most. But given the very design of the Switch is a home/portable hybrid, most won’t want to carry around a separate hard drive for game storage.

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Bryan Langley’s first console was the Super Nintendo and he hasn’t stopped using his opposable thumbs since. He is based in Bristol, UK and is still searchin' for them glory days he never had.