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.
It’s hard to believe there’s still people defending the 64GB model, when even Valve shit canned it. It only ever existed because Valve wanted to hit a $400 price point, and that was the only way at the time they could do so. Fine. That doesn’t make it an okay option, though. When a single PC game (and not even necessarily all that modern of one) can be more than the entire available space of a device intended to play PC games, that’s not okay.
The copium has flown fast and free, here, but it truly was a situation where it was just a starting point to upgrade the storage yourself. Why pay more for a 256GB, if you’re going to rip out the drive anyways? On that, though, you do bear a little of the blame.
It seems you already knew this was the case, but decided to forgo doing the upgrade until later. Then, life got in the way. If you buy a device knowing it’s deficient and do nothing to rectify the situation, you can’t exactly sit back and complain that it’s deficient.
I don’t get why people defend it, someone even told me something wrong and that it was a chip on the board. I bought it with the assumption I could just stick a drive in whenever and won’t need to really need to do transfers or anything. I also got told that just using an SD card was perfectly fine… they didn’t mention anything about how much storage gets eaten up. A 64GB emmc chip for system memory just made sense, it’s been done before. But I kept seeing it everywhere on here; “just buy the 64GB model and upgrade it” “you’re wasting money buying higher tiers”
It was during a time before I stopped paying so much attention to what I read on Reddit. Lately I’ve been kinda realizing that a lot of people on here just genuinely lack the ability to understand others and downvote or bully anyone that isn’t on the same page about topics. One time I made a comment for fun, talking about how cool it would be if PC handhelds were based on ARM chips if an industry shift to ARM happens and it ended with an argument with me trying to explain that I wasn’t being serious and I just wanted to have fun conversations and not get into it about architectures and other stuff. Got heavily downvoted until people came in to defend me and call them out for acting like a dick.
Clearly I’m just too casual for this sub, when I looked up videos before things went to shit and a drive was in my cart, I was genuinely upset to find out there’s just a 64gb ssd in there. Even saying it sounds kinda ridiculous, 128gb base would’ve been at least useable