I bought it because people kept recommending to buy it and just swap out the drive.

Well life happened and now that’s on the bottom of my priority list since my health took a turn for the worse and my job tossed me out at the start of it all.

So now I’m left with 64gb of internal storage and 400gb of SD card storage using my old Vita’s SD card

I don’t install many games, I keep clearing my shader cache, and I still lack the internal storage to do anything. I uninstalled my big games just to get into emulation and the Discover store just ATE my memory with software. Especially application platforms. So I kept deleting emulators but still nothing. I tried uninstalling the duplicated garbage it put on the deck but oh, this KDE Application platform is needed for Dolphin, while this one is needed for Moonlight. Even outside of emulation I just want to play the delisted Transformers games man

I picked up my Switch for the first time in months and felt so at ease, no storage BS, just install and uninstall as needed like any other console. Considering I don’t even have the money to upgrade my storage and won’t since I need to prioritize my health, I honestly just might sell this thing. I really don’t want to, but I could use the money and it’s not like I can do any fucking thing I want to do with it because for some reason, some dumbass at Valve decided 64GB was PERFECT for base storage on a Linux gaming handheld. Imagine how salty I was seeing the 256gb base Deck for $400 after purchasing it a little outside of the return window, under the assumption that “There will be no new Decks”

Maybe if I get hired at this sales job I’ll come back with an OLED and this time, I’ll just buy the storage I need outright and upgrade it if needed later instead of it being a damn requirement from the start to enjoy the thing. Love this thing, but I’d chuck it in the trash if it wasn’t wasteful. That “just upgrade the 64GB” suggestion is so stupid and I’m glad less people gotta crack open their decks.

  • The8Darkness@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You can literally be objectively right about something (not even an opinion) and get downvoted because people dont like to see that.

    Like when the exynos S22 Ultra released I got one on launch. Tested it against my old Oneplus 8 Pro and it had worse performance, worse battery life and worse reception (I posted screenshots proving it). Nah must be my fault for using the device wrong.

    Or I bought an ally on launch day and the stick grind has gotten so bad now, the sticks literally feel worse than the ones of a 20yo gamecube and ps1. Also my fault for using the device wrong.

    Imo. it isnt that hard for me to open the deck and replace the ssd. However I know people sometimes just dont want to do that and thats fine. Personally I also bought the 1tb deck over the 512gb and one of the reasons beeing not having to replace the ssd.

    In your situation you might also look at local offers or ask a repairshop if they could put in an ssd instead of selling it. Here in my area I saw people do it for like 30$ (+ssd cost)