Do you have everything ready for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? Console gamers may not need to review the minimum and recommended requirements for each game, but if you want to play the first one the best option is to get the digital copy, and that means extra storage on Switch. Specifically, 18.7 GB of launch. But if you don’t feel like deleting content already installed, SanDisk and Nintendo itself they have their own solution.
Two days before the launch of Link’s next great adventure will go on sale the commemorative 1TB MicroSD card from the saga of The Legend of Zelda. A model designed for the Nintendo Switch itself and the first in the series based on the franchise. Of course, the alliance between SanDisk and Nintendo already comes from behind and they have offered other cards based on Super Mario or Animal Crossing.
From here you have to look at the label and see what it offers. Its entry price is reasonable: €179.99. For a little more you can buy a Switch Lite, but despite the fact that it is currently possible to get exactly the same cards, they are the serigraphy of Legend of Zelda for much less (on Amazon you can find them for 135 euros), the original price of these is 246.99 euros. Console storage is expensive.
SanDisk 1TB microSDXC Card for Nintendo Switch – Licensed by Nintendo
In addition to the storage and the official license, SanDisk guarantees a reading speed of up to 100 megabytes per second and 90 megabytes of writing. However, and unlike other much cheaper brands, as they are a fully licensed article we are given additional guarantees that it is perfectly optimized for Switch.
However, it is worth remembering that for much less we can get hold of the card that Nintendo and Sandisk launched for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and, despite having much less storage, about 64 GB, and being of another color, the emblem is the same, we will have plenty of space when playing Tears of the Kingdom in digital, and install almost all the games in the series on our console without having to delete anything at all.
SanDisk microSDXC UHS-I card for Nintendo Switch 64GB – Nintendo licensed Product
In any case, the new 1TB microSD card from Nintendo and SanDisk lwill arrive on May 10and it is no coincidence: only two days later it will be available The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Although, to be fair, the game will come bundled with a generous amount of related items. From cases to this very sweet commemorative Nintendo Switch OLED. Nintendo does not stitch without thread.