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Amazon has been delivering terms cuts connected its gaming products near and close for the Prime Day merchantability this week, but this woody connected a 256GB microSD Express Card is simply a immense surprise, particularly for Nintendo Switch 2 owners.
Normally £49, the 256GB Sandisk exemplary microSD Express Card has been dropped to £45.49, portion the 128GB mentation has gone from £41.99 to £39.98. While these are lone 7% and 5% terms cuts, respectively, these are inactive considered bargain prices fixed the scarcity of deals connected microSD Express cards successful general.
SanDisk microSD Express Card 256GB
SanDisk microSD Express Card
That’s due to the fact that the ‘Express’ mentation of microSD cards is simply a comparatively caller format, with lone a constricted enactment of brands, similar Samsung and SanDisk, adjacent making immoderate to present the overmuch higher work and constitute velocity levels. Since the Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t compatible with the older models of SD cards either, this is presently the champion mode to grow the constricted retention of the caller console.
Granted, the Switch 2’s 256GB interior retention is overmuch bigger than the archetypal Switch’s 32GB and the OLED’s 64GB.
On the different hand, not lone are integer games taking up much abstraction with larger record sizes, but the instauration of Nintendo’s crippled cardinal cards means that carnal games volition request country connected the console’s SSD, too, since the cartridge volition lone enactment arsenic a licence to download each rubric alternatively than enactment arsenic its ain retention device, compared to Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition.
While SanDisk's 256GB and 128GB cards person been listed with agelong dispatch times, it's apt those estimated transportation dates volition beryllium moved up erstwhile caller banal is allocated.
If you privation to grow your retention adjacent further, Amazon is besides selling the 512GB mentation of the SanDisk card, though that is inactive presently astatine its non-sale terms of £86.99.
With however uncommon bargains for these types of cards are, we expect them to displacement alternatively quickly. That said, the Nintendo-branded Samsung mentation of the microSD Express Card is inactive successful banal astatine Amazon for £49.95.
The 512GB Lexar PLAY PRO mentation is besides connected merchantability astatine astir £10 off, but that’s inactive for its overmuch higher terms of £159.99. We would lone urge that 1 if you’re a Lexar diehard.
Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with implicit 10 years of acquisition covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him connected Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.
Originally posted:
Jul 9, 2025 11:06 am
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