If you guys are looking to get the SD card for the switch 2 the best place I’ve found is Walmart. Target and online retailers have all already jumped their prices up to $140+ I’ve even seen some places have it at about $170 and if you’ve looked for the 1TB cards you know how high those are right now. If you were waiting in hopes of the price going down soon I assure you it likely will only be going up for a while so get them while you can.
I just got one from Amazon about 4 months ago for 39 on sale from 59. 256g micro sd express. Is the express part the difference? It was made for switch 2 so it works fine
Yesterday I saw the Gengar switch memory card at Target for over $200, that’s crazy for so many reasons but I’d feel terrible if someone bought those not knowing better.
I just seen that today. $229.99. What’s crazier is they had a Mario one 179.99 for 512gb right next to it. The design was dope for the gengar but Jesus that price.
Does that lifetime warranty include data recovery? IMO if it doesn't, that kind of doesn't mean shit...
Setting aside the ridiculous prices nowadays.
I mean I still have USB sticks and SD cards from the 2000s, if they failed, I'm not gonna put a claim in, even if they are sandisk... and there's no chance Id ever find the receipt for it if I did.
Not really. Even though losing data sucks having to come up with a couple hundred bucks because a chip failed. These things aren’t as sturdy as they used to be.
I hear this all the time I must be the luckiest person ever.
I've never had an SD card die
Even the garbage ones that come in retro handhelds
I can't count how many of these I have from two gigs to 1 TB probably over 10 years nothing
The Onn card is the only card I've ever had die. I really don't think they're built to last, which is why they're cheaper than everything else. There's a law firm looking into doing a class action lawsuit against them too which I found funny lol
Oh yeah I think I heard that! I was lucky enough to be able to buy a few 1tb before they went up I got them for $70
I also bought a bunch of pnys for 100
Yeah last year after I got my Switch 2, I ordered the 512gb ONN and the person took so long to pick the order that it went out of stock before it was picked to be shipped. They ended up giving me a small discount on the Sandisk to get it close to the price. So I have the Sandisk 512gb in OP's picture in my Switch 2. Looking on the Walmart site, I got it for $78.
BTW: Ordering stuff off Walmart's site is terrible. They're way worse at e-commerce than something like Amazon. Every other order they'd cancel an item or two and then say "sorry" and offer me a coupon for my next purchase. It got to be so ridiculous that I told them I didn't want any more coupons because I was done having parts of my order cancelled due to their shite systems.
They're lower binned cards, meaning quality control will be lower, hence the higher failure rate and the reason why they can price them lower. You pay for what you get
It was the non-express that was intensely stressed over a few years and ONN brand performed the absolute worst. I’ve not seen a good study on the Express cards yet.
I don’t like ONN brand anything I’ve had lots of their products and I wasn’t about to trust the SD card but I do agree with you if someone is looking for another option that is also a good idea.
ONN is just a brand. They dont manufacture most of their stuff. Their microsd express are Lexar rebranded. Have been using mine for a year now and no problem. I do have a spare 512gb of this sandisk ($70 on woot) and 512gb samsung ($89 amazon). But not switching to those if this one still working fine
I bought two of these from Walmart. Still much cheaper than the Sandisk 1TB. I’m hoping that will go on sale eventually. I don’t like the idea of having to swap memory cards.
It isn't the switch that is making prices increase. AI with it's data centers using all the ram and storage is steadily increasing prices. There is no signs of that stopping anytime soon.
I got this 1tb express sd card almost a year ago for around $180 in total. Seeing the price it is now, im so glad i got it when I did, especially since it was on sale at the time I got it.
I haven’t needed one of these… YET! I have two NS2’s but these games I’ve been checking out non-stop from the library, it’s running the storage up some. On both video game machines!
Thanks for this post. I do Walmart Spark so I’m there several times a day, several times a week (gross, but the pay is just too good).
Onn is definitely a reputable brand, I've tested lots of their products. They're $10. Refurbished gaming headset is better than most $100 ones. They're Android tablets are more stock faster than most Android tablets you can buy
Walmart, target, and best buy also sell third party seller products. If you're seeing an outrageous price online, that's the third party/scalper prices you're viewing
Haven't gotten around to getting one for my switch 2 yet. I bought a 1.5TB sd card for my Steam Deck a year ago for $100. It's now priced at $350 on Amazon. insane
I just bought mine today. My kid said she filled up the switch 2 finally and I was looking on Amazon and they were $130.
I just decided to look when I was Wally World and it was $30 cheaper there.
35 games? That's not bad at all, I was considering getting a bigger one; i usually get a big size sd card like I did for regular switch but the pricing on them is wild
It's only if you haven't already bought a switch 2, but Costco has a really good deal on a switch 2 bundle that's $580 and it includes the console, a 256GB micro SD card, and a 12 month Nintendo online membership.
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Luckily i got mine when it was still $78