There are plenty of other threads for this but just putting my 2c on the comments people are making RE storage. Worth noting that the Wii U launched with 32GB of flash in 2012. Around this time? Thumb drives and SD cards would set you back around $1-2AU/GB. These days you can get similar devices, that are also faster, for ~15c/GB. You can even get relatively entry level M.2 SSDs for somewhere around 6c/GB. Flash is ABSURDLY cheap these days
Basically, even ignoring entirely inflation, solid state storage at the retail level is somewhere around 15x cheaper than it was when the Wii U launched. With its 32GB of storage in one of its SKUs. If they were to spend the exact same amount they did on the Wii U for storage? They should be selling it with 512GB of storage. You can get that much flash for $35AU.... at retail.... it's not an extravagant amount by any stretch....
If you take inflation into account? That rises to around 20x or 640GB now being the equivalent of 32GB in 2012. Doesn't quite change the equation that much but just highlights a bit that 512GB here is, if anything, a tad conservative
Do I think they'll go with 512GB? No. I don't think so. They'll cheap out. 256GB is probably about right
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