WSJ: Nintendo delays 64GB Switch game cartridges until 2019

Nintendo will not make Game Cards for the Switch of 64GB available to game developers until 2019, reports the WSJ. Initially, cartridges with that amount of memory, for bulkier games, would be released in the second half of 2018.

According to WSJ sources, Nintendo recently informed its partners of the postponement. The newspaper does not mention a reason, apart from ‘technical problems’ and the fact that Nintendo would like to guarantee that the cartridges work flawlessly. Currently, the maximum storage amount of game cartridges for the Switch is 32GB.

Developers had hoped to be able to release large games on larger Game Cards earlier, according to the American newspaper. At the beginning of this month, Nintendo announced that it had shipped more than ten million units of its Switch consoles and there is a chance that more game publishers will want to release games for the Switch due to the success. Particularly if they want to port existing large games, they can run into the 32GB limit when released on a cartridge.