Nintendo Switch 2 Game Sizes Revealed, and It Looks Like the 256 GB Internal Storage Will Keep Most Players Going for a While

Nintendo has confirmed immoderate of its Switch 2 crippled sizes, and, thankfully, they’re comparatively small.

The Japanese My Nintendo Store lists a fig of Switch 2 games alongside their record sizes.

The Nintendo Switch 2 features 256 GB of interior storage, which is simply a important upgrade connected the 32 GB disposable connected the OG Switch and Switch Lite and the 64 GB connected the Switch - OLED Model.

Another large quality is that the Switch 2 requires microSD Express cards for up to 2 TB of other storage, meaning the microSDXC cards the existent Switch models enactment cannot transportation implicit to the caller console.

But, based connected the record sizes revealed connected the Japanese store, that 256 GB of interior retention should support astir players going for a while.

Nintendo Switch 2 crippled retention sizes:

• Mario Kart World: 23.4 GB
• Donkey Kong Bananza: 10 GB
• Nintendo Classics: GameCube app: 3.5 GB
• Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition ＋ Jamboree TV: 7.7 GB
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition ＋ Star Crossed World: 5.7 GB

The biggest record size present is, arsenic you’d expect, Mario Kart World, but astatine 23.4 GB it lone takes up astir 10% of the Switch 2’s full interior storage.

Mario Kart World is comparatively slim compared to the beefy Cyberpunk 2077, which weighs successful astatine 64 GB connected Nintendo Switch 2. That's a chunky 25% of the Switch 2’s interior storage.

Nintendo besides precocious confirmed that respective caller Switch 2 crippled cards won’t ever transportation an existent game, but alternatively incorporate a cardinal for a crippled download. This isn't the lawsuit for Cyberpunk 2077, though.

For context, 1 of the biggest games connected the archetypal Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was conscionable 16 GB.

It’s worthy noting that the GameCube app’s size is expected to turn arsenic caller games are added to the library. At launch, the GameCube app contains The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and SoulCalibur 2.

So, however is the Nintendo Switch 2 capable to get distant with comparatively tiny crippled sizes portion offering up to 4K resolution?

In January, the net spotted a Nintendo patent, filed July 2023 but published for the archetypal clip earlier this year, that described AI representation upscaling exertion that would assistance support video crippled download sizes tiny capable to acceptable connected a carnal crippled cartridge portion offering up to 4K textures. It was thought astatine the clip that this applied to the Nintendo Switch 2, and could subordinate to Nvidia DLSS graphics technology.

Nvidia DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI-powered exertion that uses instrumentality learning to upscale lower-resolution images successful real-time, enhancing some show and representation prime successful games.

This week, successful the aftermath of the Nintendo Direct, Nintendo and Nvidia confirmed the Switch 2’s customized GPU enables AI upscaling via DLSS and ray tracing.

Nvidia described it arsenic a “custom Nvidia processor featuring an Nvidia GPU with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores for stunning visuals and AI-driven enhancements.”

Those upgrades see up to 4K gaming successful TV mode and up to 120 FPS astatine 1080p successful handheld mode. Nintendo Switch 2 besides supports HDR, and AI upscaling “to sharpen visuals and creaseless gameplay.”

The caller RT Cores bring real-time ray tracing, delivering “lifelike lighting, reflections and shadows for much immersive worlds,” Nvidia continued.

Tensor Cores, meanwhile, powerfulness AI-driven features similar DLSS, “boosting solution for sharper details without sacrificing representation quality.”

Details are bladed connected the ground, however. In a hardware-focused roundtable Q&A successful New York this week, attended by IGN, Nintendo representatives confirmed the Switch 2 uses DLSS, but did not specify which mentation of the tech, oregon whether it had been customized for Switch 2. It was a likewise vague effect erstwhile Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s GPU is susceptible of ray tracing.

And what astir the GPU itself? Tetsuya Sasaki, General Manager astatine Nintendo’s Technology Development Division, and Senior Director astatine its Technology Development Department, chimed successful to accidental Nintendo prefers not to get successful the weeds connected things similar the GPU.

“Nintendo doesn't stock excessively overmuch connected the hardware spec,” helium said. “What we truly similar to absorption connected is the worth that we tin supply to our consumers. But I bash judge that our spouse Nvidia volition beryllium sharing immoderate information.”

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, and what the experts person to accidental astir the Switch 2 terms and Mario Kart World’s $80 terms tag.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].