Technically no but it is now occasionly used by the industry

Performance shouldn’t be too much, if it is at all, worse on an SD card as long as you buy one that is at least class 10

It can handle a 32GB game you just buy either a 64 GB Micro sd card or buy the physical version

I think Nintendo are expecting people to buy physical like the did for the Wii U and 3DS as it doesn’t affect physical copies.

No you can’t use your old drive. This is at heart a portable console so you’d need to use a micro sd card to expand the storage. However this does only affect digital so you might still not need anything.

Why does it matter if it hurts the switch? You wouldn’t expect fake praise from any other journalist, they should say details about the switch that may affect someones experience with it.

Depends on how many games you want to download.

It is if people either use external SD cards or only buy physical games. DLC etc will probably fit on a 32GB card.

It wouldn’t be much of an article. It’d probably be get a 64GB micro sd card if you aren’t going to download very many games get a 128gb card if you are. I suppose they could say which manufacturers are reliable but i expect that’s been done before.

It won’t be however a lot of the time the bigger games are made by AAA publishers so it may seem like it is.

The 500 GB drives you are talking about are mechanical. You don’t put a mechanical drive in a portable device as they are loud and if you drop it you might damage them. Nintendo are using a solid state drive in the switch probably one similar to those found in phones and tablets. These are far more expensive for…

Probably the same way apple, samsung etc sell the same size phone with different amounts of storage. Unless they are at the absolute maximum for the size of the drive (which seems incredibly unlikely) they probably could technically change the drive to one that’s bigger. I don’t think they should but they could.

The SD cards are cheaper than $100 by quite a lot. Also Nintendo will probably say on the box

That’s better than sonys. With an 128GB card not even being an option and a 16 GB card with a 21% discount only just being cheaper.

AFAIK the New Nintendo 3DS didn’t come with a charger in the box although i might be wrong.

Sandisk, Toshiba and any other established companies range are usually a safe bet.

Fairly sure they used magnetic hard drives, I don’t know much about apple so I could be wrong.

Wouldn’t really say it’s completely false, They should probably have said

Being pedantic but Flash Memory is Solid State. NAND is used in any type of high capacity storage from Compact flash onwards so if Nintendo choose to use a cart with Read/Write access it’ll use NAND Flash.

The Internal Is NAND flash, they haven’t specified the speed.