Here’s where you can buy microSD Express cards for the Switch 2

Don’t bargain 1 unless you tin spot the “EX” statement connected the paper and package. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

All microSD cards look beauteous overmuch the same, but erstwhile it comes to buying the close 1 for your Nintendo Switch 2, lone microSD Express cards volition enactment for storing and playing games. The microSD paper you utilized successful your archetypal Switch oregon Switch Lite volition connection constricted functionality with Nintendo's caller handheld, arsenic it volition lone fto you presumption screenshots oregon video clips you captured antecedently - that's it.

That's due to the fact that Nintendo opted for a importantly faster spec successful its caller handheld console, which boasts an advertised 4.4x betterment successful presumption of transportation speeds implicit the microSD cards you mightiness already person lying around. That betterment is signified by a small, easy-to-miss "EX" emblem etched onto the beforehand of the card.

What's harder to miss is however overmuch much costly Express cards are, with immoderate costing much than $50 for conscionable 256GB of storage. The Switch 2 supports microSD Express cards up to 2TB successful size, though 1TB is the largest capableness wide disposable (that's an overstatement, arsenic galore are sold retired currently), with immoderate cards selling for up to $200 a pop. Phew. I accidental it makes consciousness that they're pricier since they're classified arsenic bonafide PCIe NVMe SSDs by the SD Assoc …

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