why does Nintendo do this?

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11 ай бұрын

There is a good chance your Nintendo cartridge has some empty space inside it. I heard this is usually to allow for standard sizing when the internal parts may differ in size, but I don't know if this is true or not. Does anyone know?
#nintendo #switch #tinkermanmick #shorts

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@TinkerManMick 11 ай бұрын

Tasting the label kzfaq.infoueP2zUf-EiQ

@JmMateo933 11 ай бұрын

Ok bro

@parkergent9206 11 ай бұрын

you should pin my comment the one where i say it tastes good

@zettaton 11 ай бұрын

"Tasting" 💀💀💀 Did you mean "testing"?

@NehemiahRivera-bt4pu 11 ай бұрын

@@zettaton he meant your mom

@esdigital5259 11 ай бұрын

Wait until Tinker Man Mick discovers 256gb micro SD cards

@MK-bi1hj 2 ай бұрын

"i cant believe a whole game fits on this tiny little thing nowadays" -1TB microsd card

@Y15_5 2 ай бұрын

I think there are 1.5TB micro SD cards now

@O_S_B_68 Ай бұрын

Hay tamaños más grandes que los "TB".

@mrjuicejunior Ай бұрын

From 4 MB cards in the late 90s to a tiny micro SD card that can fit 1 TB, times sure have changed

@MarauderVN Ай бұрын

4TB SD cards already coming soon

@lirfrank Ай бұрын

@@MarauderVN Not even 2TB exist yet. Even though the Switch will apparently be able to handle them once they do.

@francisbungiejump 11 ай бұрын

It's easier to manage a cartridge than a microscopic chip

@smort9907 11 ай бұрын

Sd card

@ThatOneSkywalker 11 ай бұрын

@smort9907 wrong.

@GenHex208 11 ай бұрын

@@ThatOneSkywalkerI think he was saying it’s like having a micro sd

@ThatOneSkywalker 11 ай бұрын

@GengarHexadecimal 👍

@ProtoPropski 11 ай бұрын

Ya, I don't get why it's so hard to understand, Nintendo can't make a different cartridge for every variant of storage.... Also they have to account for the need of each studio, some games are 100MB, others are 32+ GB so ofc the size of the chips will vary as more storage is needed

@adjgamer 3 ай бұрын

This guy is gonna lose it when he opens a 2.5" SSD or a thumb drive.

@JemaKnight 4 ай бұрын

"why does Nintendo do this?" *immediately opens a game that doesn't do this*

@LeBoomStudios 3 ай бұрын

I bet he never opened an SD card or a 2.5" SSD either. Same thing there, the smaller ones usually contain more air than anything else.

@crisnmaryfam7344 3 ай бұрын

clearly showing its not actually "nintendo" doing it but the game makers and such. Nintendo could care less how much space is used or unused as long as its producing money.

@GetShwiftyInHere 3 ай бұрын

@crisnmaryfam7344 He proved Nintendo does use small PCB and it is Nintendo that decided that. What am I missing here? He made a video that proved a point. If anything he got it more on point when he said "Nintendo does this".

@user-dt1yx6lc1p 2 ай бұрын

And why should they change the cartridge? It would piss people off, if they had to buy adapters because the cartridge is to small and won't fit in the slot.

@HaniiPuppy 2 ай бұрын

@@crisnmaryfam7344*couldn't care less?

@nikolas-1145 11 ай бұрын

At this point they’re just adding extra size to it to make it easier to handle. Too tiny and they can get lost and be difficult to get into a console

@bryanthornburg8636 11 ай бұрын

there are different capacity game cartridges the small one is 8GB, and the full sized one is either 32 or 64GB

@ethan44866 11 ай бұрын

also allows developers to fit a bigger chip for more storage if they have a particularly big game.

@gamingmitnoahd4036 11 ай бұрын

@@ethan44866storage isnt an problem, most moder micro ssd and sad cards can have up to 1 terabyte of space on them. The size of the chip dosent realy change the storageapace it has

@sarowie 11 ай бұрын

@@gamingmitnoahd4036 it depends on a lot of variables. But... having a larger size allows for easier second sourcing of components.

@gamerkirby2851 11 ай бұрын

the did the same thing with the nes and i think the gameboy

@Fox_RZK 10 ай бұрын

1. They're easier to handle 2. There'd be more space for labeling 3. They'd be harder to lose 4. They're sometimes necessary like the full sized PCB you showed, so best to keep the size uniform 5. (and this is the point I think people tend to forget) Making it smaller would make it even more of a choking hazard than it already is.

@joeyboudreaux8504 8 ай бұрын

The larger one was a cheaper game. Meaning less room for profit, so instead of using smaller and more expensive storage mediums, they used pcb and a chip. AAA games have volume and sell for more, so they use more reliable and smaller chips.

@BierBart12 8 ай бұрын

Nintendo takes the next step in preventing people from eating their games; saliva-activated taser defense

@adolfbitler 7 ай бұрын

@@BierBart12that is a lie why would you lie to people about that

@kadeezall 7 ай бұрын

@@adolfbitlergo lick a cart and come back here

@EternalChamp 7 ай бұрын

This guy isn’t talking about Nintendo cartridges at this point 😂

@Nate.mp4 5 ай бұрын

As many have said, trying to make them smaller is only counterproductive. As long as the size of the cartridge doesn't require sacrifices in the hardware of the console, I think going back to GBA game size would be awesome. Turning the cartridge itself into a work of art like that has been lost to time but I'd love to see it return.

@josend 5 ай бұрын

i think they first should allow to have multiple cartidges inside your console. Changing cartdiges on the switch is a pain specially if you have it docked. They should allow you to have 3 or 4 cartidges inside and just select the game you like

@ItaChu787pr 5 ай бұрын

They're not gonna make a console with multiple cartridge slots 😂😂😂 at least no more than two like the DS 😂😂

@Cuhryzwrmz 4 ай бұрын

@@josendI’ve saw some adapter that can hold up about 8 but has 4 slots for switching the games and 4 for storing cartridges. Can’t remember what it’s called.

@Cuhryzwrmz 4 ай бұрын

I agree I miss them putting some good effort into the cartridges and like you said basically making them pieces of art, it felt special opening them up when I was younger.. I never wanted to get rid of the boxes but was told to to save space etc.. oh how I regret throwing some boxes away… I wonder if kids now days have that same excitement tho if they open a physical game… or if they have that excitement when they download a new iPad game or something lol I have no idea. I hate to see an all digital future and last time I was at Walmart it was apparent it’s sooner then later… sad to see cause I’ll stop buying games almost altogether lol… got a pc like 1-2yrs ago and bought like 2 games on it that’s it.. I’m rambling lol but I’m weird about shit if the game is already all digital and I get into it and like it a lot I’ll want to support it if it’s free to play etc.. but I also don’t like buying a game and not being able to play it offline 😂 will talk me outta buying a game if there’s no offline mode.

@dhag72 4 ай бұрын

@@Cuhryzwrmzthat 8 slot cartridge mag thing sounds sick. I'm gonna have to look now

@shmish5818 5 ай бұрын

3 reasons 1.) If it get's any smaller it'll be impossible to keep track of 2.) Uniformity so that the cartridges have their same look and size to know they are for nintendo switch. 3.) Future expansion, similar to the other cartridge based consoles nintendo has made the extra space was for adding new hardware later on down the line for "future proofing"

@somthinwrong Ай бұрын

like him or not he spittin' out facts!

@coolguyx14 Ай бұрын

IT CAN GET EVEN SMALLER?!

@Nelsito99 Ай бұрын

@@coolguyx14there are micro SD cards that can fit 1 tera byte worth of data at is almost 1000 gbs and it's about the side of a pinky nail

@shotgunmasterQL Ай бұрын

Future expansion is the part that not a lot of the other comments mentioned, and that's definitely a big part. Or rather, Nintendo had made the plastic shell to this size to accommodate all the different capacity chips they intended for Switch, and if a company didn't need the full 16GB cart (or 32GB, as those were introduced only later in the Switch lifecycle), they didn't need to pay extra for a bunch of unused space on the cart, just to fill the physical space inside the plastic shell. Bunch of PlayStation games could also fit on much smaller discs if such alternative Blu-ray sizes existed (physically), and if that was as easy and also as cost effective to do as smaller capacity carts, they would do that as well. It's just that discs are ultra cheap to print, so there's no point in fiddling with their physical size in order to optimize costs (at best you can pick between dual, triple and quad layer Blu-ray discs, which otherwise look the same but have different capacities). With carts there's a noteworthy production cost saving if you can opt for a smaller capacity cart, even if the plastic shell is still the same. Cost optimization, while also trying to keep things more uniform in design.

@nonyabiz9340 11 ай бұрын

Gonna be really shocked when he opens an original Nintendo cartridge.

@beauwalker9820 10 ай бұрын

There's a reason they take up only half the cartridge, so they have air to cool down, and not overheat.

@Tbug20 10 ай бұрын

@@beauwalker9820pretty sure it was so they wouldn’t look like “video games” due to the negative stigma at the time

@psychonauts0 10 ай бұрын

@@Tbug20 This is the correct answer. The whole point was it was supposed to feel like putting a video cassette in a VCR. Plus a handful of NES games actually did fill the whole cartridge and didn't have overheating issues... and the whole Famicom games being way smaller and not having such issues.

@adamsfusion 10 ай бұрын

@@beauwalker9820 What if I told you NES cartridges produce next to no heat.

@nonyabiz9340 10 ай бұрын

@@adamsfusion yeah look at a famicom cart, they're not worried about heat dissipation.

@tzisorey 11 ай бұрын

Same reason the packaging on the shelf isn't just the size of the cartridge - you need to be able to *_find_* it.

@KertaDrake 8 ай бұрын

Indeed! Anyone who has ever set down a loose MicroSD on even a slightly cluttered desk can attest to that!

@tzisorey 8 ай бұрын

@@KertaDrake I tried to (spring-loaded) eject a 128Gb micro-SD card from my new dashcam, without realising how powerful the spring behind it was. It's still somewhere in my car - via con dios SD card...

@xenno8496 8 ай бұрын

Not to mention the smallest chip needs the same sized case as the largest so they ALL fit into the console and plug in correctly

@jomitoh5111 8 ай бұрын

@@KertaDrake good luck with it falling in a carpet

@Lara_T_ 8 ай бұрын

Also: not being easily swallowable by children

@reneablackheart9563 3 ай бұрын

-Easier to handle -Makes it look the same as the ones that need the bigger chip -Will actually fit into the switch's game slot

@TheNarrator5 4 ай бұрын

I can’t believe that that tiny little thing cost me $80

@expresivamisteriosa2362 3 ай бұрын

BECAUSE THE MOST BETTER THINGS COME IN SMALL SIZES ....LOL

@alexmilo 10 ай бұрын

It’s crazy how small these chips are now, but worth pointing out that even some original Game Boy games didn’t use all its space either.

@deejay4am 9 ай бұрын

NES cartridges were also mostly empty space, with the bank of chips and the connector taking 1/3rd or less of the space. The standard size allows for larger boards when needed (save functions or extra hardware included; although for the NES this was not really used AFAIK), and so that kids would have an easy time handling them.

@ArtisChronicles 5 ай бұрын

@@deejay4am yes, there was a small handful of times that extra hardware was included in the NES cartridge. Better to have the space and not need it, than to need the space and not have it.

@darkvulpes4826 5 ай бұрын

Man, I remember someone was hiding their stash in old cartridges, lol.

@splergenyuralove 5 ай бұрын

@@darkvulpes4826yo, could you pass me Punch Out

@cryptocsguy9282 5 ай бұрын

@@darkvulpes4826lol, smart 😮

@shaggy7599 10 ай бұрын

Bro we have 1TB Micro SD cards and this guy is surprised about “this tiny little thing”

@bobbybologna3029 6 ай бұрын

Guess you're young. I remember when 256mb was the size of a filing cabinet and cost a few grand lol

@horu7640 6 ай бұрын

ok boomer @@bobbybologna3029

@JavenJC69 6 ай бұрын

@@bobbybologna3029 back then technology was still in the early stages but now it's evolving and it's both a good thing and a bad thing

@FatfighterXD1 6 ай бұрын

@@bobbybologna3029are you larping as an old person? That's incredibly cringe tbh

@KRN92-sn7nu 6 ай бұрын

The op of the video sounds old, so he probably remembers that they need a taco looking shapped cartridge to fit Super Mario 64. Its understandable to be shocked at the technological progress.

@shadow__dancer 4 ай бұрын

things can always be smaller. but designers figured out that, ergonomically, things get harder to use the smaller they are. just think of those tiny keyboards on your phone screen. we could make them smaller and use up less screen space, but then it will be harder to type the correct letters.

@sinom 4 ай бұрын

Fun thing is, the ones that are only half full are actually the higher quality and higher capacity carts than the ones that fill up the whole cartridge

@SmallSpoonBrigade 3 күн бұрын

Not surprising, these are small enough that the limiting factor is wanting kids to be able to physically put the carts into the system.

@Oscorpior99 11 ай бұрын

Alternative Title: Why did you do this?!

@playgames9082 10 ай бұрын

захист від піратства.оіцензія.і т.д.

@Oscorpior99 10 ай бұрын

@@playgames9082 Uh idk what you saying

@Oscorpior99 10 ай бұрын

@@playgames9082 no i mean he litrealy destroyed the catrege

@schnitzelhannes6431 10 ай бұрын

@@Oscorpior99 Wtf you can put it back in dmbss

@johnnysanchez9505 10 ай бұрын

Why not? its not like he destroyed the actual hardware, just open the case (a drops of glue, and its done). And its his cartridge, so I dont care lolol

@Tonba1 11 ай бұрын

Its wild to me the size of a switch cart still blows people away like we've had 128gb micro sd cards literally 1/4th the size of a switch cart for like a decade UPDATE as of last yesr 2tb micro SD cards are available to consumers 2 terabytes and 1/4th the size of a switch cart

@muddle3017 11 ай бұрын

Ikr, 2 terabyte sd cards exist, and the switch carts only have like 8 gb, though there usually isn't all that much of a need to have any more than that cause switch games are tiny and nintendo needs to make the physical copies dirt cheap to make sure they don't cost any more than digital

@sarowie 11 ай бұрын

@@muddle3017 well, physical copies do cost more as you have to share the profits with the supply chain. With a digital copy, Nintendo is the supply chain.

@JrIcify 11 ай бұрын

They're very cheap too. A 128GB microsd is about $20 USD for a reputable brand.

@marcellachine5718 11 ай бұрын

@@JrIcifynot 12 years ago though.

@cptcrogge 11 ай бұрын

I remember times when I had to split data on several floppies, amazing progress indeed.

@Monorack 3 ай бұрын

Nintendo has always been good on file compression

@randomcontent1736 3 ай бұрын

wait til he finds out about nes carts

@MegaNightowl11 10 ай бұрын

Imagine they didn't do this. You stay up till the midnight release of the new game. You get home and open the case. Inside is a Itty bitty micro SD card. You drop it and now it's lost in the shag carpet. The clock hits 2am. You're still picking through the shag. 😂

@jimmyjones6086 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a stoner storyv

@mikeexits 2 ай бұрын

@@jimmyjones6086A stoner engineer moment?

@silversonic1 10 ай бұрын

The extra size is, as you demonstrated, sometimes necessary. It's good to have some room to build out when needed.

@TrillMurray 10 ай бұрын

Yeah imagine if they made half size carts for the ones that didn't require the space 😂 you'd have to jam a stick in your switch to pop it out

@silversonic1 10 ай бұрын

@@TrillMurray I just meant that having the option for a dimensionally larger chip instead of only doing the small one to save on internal component space was the better idea.

@TrillMurray 10 ай бұрын

@@silversonic1 I agree. I'm saying if the cartridge size wasn't standardized, the bigger carts would either stick out the top of a switch like a GB color cartridge in a gba or the smaller carts would be recessed into the switch and hard to remove

@silversonic1 10 ай бұрын

@@TrillMurray I get ya now. Sorry. It's late here and my brain's ready for bed.

@rfmerrill 7 ай бұрын

@@TrillMurray This is also the reason why NES cartridges are all the same size while Famicom ones are not. The NES frontloader requires the carts to be a uniform size in order for the latching mechanism to work properly. The Famicom was an ordinary top-loading console, so they could make larger games have longer carts (and a few games in fact did).

@radicaledward3783 Ай бұрын

"they weren't telling porkies!" 😂 So funny.

@ajbanimatedstudios5014 3 ай бұрын

Eventually the games will simply work via scanner detection, wireless, or even nfc. No more blowing cartridges or missaligning direction. Just a simple slide in and close. Like an amiibo

@JaredGauthier 11 ай бұрын

It's only half because the game isn't huge data wise (5.7 gb). It's basically fitting on a micro SD card that is 8 gb. Edit: I'm not trying to suggest that the physical size inside the cart is related to storage. I'm just saying MicroSD cards are tiny. So whether the cart is half full or completely full it doesn't matter. It's not like something is "missing". Probably has to do with whatever storage size they chose and what parts were available.

@checob224 11 ай бұрын

About to say the same thing

@jeffasourasrex2767 11 ай бұрын

I too was about to say the same thing.

@TheDude50447 11 ай бұрын

Micro SD cards that size can be a terabyte large. So Im certain the size difference got nothing to do with the file size here.

@Donaldtrummp 11 ай бұрын

Naw one is chinamade fake shit

@Hexcede 11 ай бұрын

@@TheDude50447 Probably because it's cheaper

@ComeAtMe 11 ай бұрын

Give the label on the cartridge a lick

@Jacob.bottner.productions 11 ай бұрын

Why

@IMDYT420 11 ай бұрын

It taste good

@t-60studios 11 ай бұрын

@@Jacob.bottner.productionsits supposed to be super bitter

@TinkerManMick 11 ай бұрын

Please don't tempt me.. Next video:

@_bizmo_fungus_894 11 ай бұрын

I herd it was awful so ofc like any human would I tried it. DO NOT lmao

@enderspider5001 Ай бұрын

Dude uses Cheetos/Doritos as a base for how full his game cartridge has to be

@JinKee 2 ай бұрын

Smuggle wikipedia into north korea by hiding a microSD inside a Nintendo switch Mario Odyssey cartridge

@parkergent9206 11 ай бұрын

i bet you didn’t know they actually taste pretty good

@bbb_888 10 ай бұрын

Let me try. .. brb

@Zreknarf 10 ай бұрын

with or without the shell?

@lamonite 10 ай бұрын

@@Zreknarfwith the shell

@Zreknarf 10 ай бұрын

oh wait I remember now. they're coated with bitterant o prevent kids from putting them in their mouth

@suhtangwong 10 ай бұрын

Proof?

@Durrutitv 10 ай бұрын

Every cartridge needs to be the same size because of the port design specifications but the internals are as small as they can be because bigger pcb and more silicon = more money. This has always been how cartridges have worked going back to the 2600 and NES, all cartridges are a uniform size and the internal electronics are only as big as they need to be.

@bencecsingar 8 ай бұрын

"Can't believe the whole game fits in a tini thing like this now days" 1TB sd card cry in the corner while 2TB sd card just started running toward a grave yard

@Alpine_flo92002 18 күн бұрын

SD cards are WAY slower and way less durable tho. Those are full and powerful ROM chips instead of cheap flash chips that SD cards and USB drives use

@nathanpfirman625 3 ай бұрын

Bros the kinda of guy to complain that his drink isn’t filled to the very brim.

@trysten8471 10 ай бұрын

Bro is baffled that a 5.7gb game fits on a flash memory chip twice the size of a micro sd card that can go up to 1tb

@marcfuchs6938 11 ай бұрын

That was already the case with their very first cartridge systems. I never took it as being unusual. Game Boy Color cartridges were even transparent and you could see, when the internals were weirdly small.

@lunlunnnnn 10 ай бұрын

Back in those days the extra space was also there so game makers could fit extra components. For example, on the NES, one of the most common extras was a RAM chip + a coin cell battery to implement saves Or on the Game Boy line of consoles, some games had rumble motors or accelerometers for motion controls Or probably the most esoteric was the Glucoboy, which had a glucose meter and LCD and could be used on its own, but when paired with a GBA it had games you could unlock by keeping your glucose levels in check, to encourage diabetics to get enough sugar

@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz 10 ай бұрын

@@lunlunnnnn I would also count the internal clocks in some pokemon games

@AwesometownUSA 7 ай бұрын

I remember when I was like 6, I got my first NES game for my birthday. I knew what Nintendo was but wasn’t super familiar with the console/cartridges yet… but so I unwrapped the present. Peeled the cellophane off the box. Opened the cardboard box. The cartridge itself was in one of those black sleeves, so I slipped it out. At this point I had the NES cartridge in my hand, but did I know when to stop? Nope! I unscrewed the back of the cart, broke it open, then pulled out the green hardware/ circuit card / PBD (whatever it’s called), and tried to jam that into the console slot. Was super confused when no videogame appeared on the tv screen haha

@marcfuchs6938 7 ай бұрын

@@AwesometownUSA Sounds like somebody was already on a path of an engineer at a very young age. =) And if you might need the word again.... It's PCB (printed circuit board)

@pacmac293 Ай бұрын

7:03 planktons robotic revenge got me like

@SymonTemplah 5 ай бұрын

Bro its called technological advancement!

@xeong5 10 ай бұрын

Wait till he finds out how smart phones hold 512GB or even 1TB on one Chip.

@AnAmericanMusician 10 ай бұрын

"Yo, why do people buy pickup trucks if they aren't constantly transporting 2000 pounds of rock?"

@Melon-Fruit 2 ай бұрын

"LOL, Nintendo be like: Let's fill half the cartridge with air to keep it chunky! 😂"

@le9038 2 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the very same treatment they did for the NES.

@Jergling 11 ай бұрын

They do this because it saves money in large volumes. The SING cartridge uses off-the-shelf components to convert an EMMC chip to switch contacts, but Mario has the memory and contacts produced in a single process.

@mwpanther 11 ай бұрын

Good point. The cart was likely designed to fit the off-the-shelf components but large production runs can save cost by going smaller.

@CarlosSantos-kh4ru 10 ай бұрын

No, It's a standarized cartrige size for the nintendo switch game cart slot, the chip size is irrelevant at that point, it just has to fit inside the cartrige

@chloedegurechaff1941 9 ай бұрын

@@CarlosSantos-kh4ru You really missed their point. Nintendo designed the slot and the cart to be that size because it allowed the use of easily, and cheap, off the shelf components. Nintendo's in house games probably use smaller internals because Nintendo felt it was worth the extra cost in manufacturing to have the nicer nand directly on the contacts. A small developer might not be okay with that extra cost, so they still have the option for a more "basic" carriage. Nintendo could have designed the Cart and slot to be anything, they could have made it similar to a micro sd card, Like the Ps Vita memory slot. But too small is more expensive, especially if its not a standardized port. and to large is not ideal for a small device. Its a compromised size, big enough that you can fit cheaper components, but not so big its unwieldy, or takes up to much room in the device itself.

@crazydogowner 11 ай бұрын

Whoever comments about storage units like oily naked old men 👇

@DorperSystems 11 ай бұрын

its a custom nintendo byte serial protocol

@DorperSystems 11 ай бұрын

@@crazydogowner yeah but the protocol and interface is entirely different. What were you expecting to find inside the cart? lol

@DorperSystems 11 ай бұрын

@@crazydogowner i mean if you want to say that a sata ssd is the same as an sd card yeah that analogy works to a point.

@marquistucker5464 11 ай бұрын

@@DorperSystems Im failing to see where the other person mentioned anything about a sata ssd, all he stated was that it is a modified read only micro sd card (which it is)

@DorperSystems 11 ай бұрын

@@marquistucker5464 its not an sd card. its like saying that a compact flash card is a bigger sd card.

@AwesometownUSA 7 ай бұрын

I remember when I was like 6, I got my first NES game for my birthday. I knew what Nintendo was but wasn’t super familiar with the console/cartridges yet… but so I unwrapped the present. Peeled the cellophane off the box. Opened the cardboard box. The cartridge itself was in one of those black sleeves, so I slipped it out. At this point I had the NES cartridge in my hand, but did I know when to stop? Nope! I unscrewed the back of the cart, broke it open, then pulled out the green hardware/ circuit card / PBD (whatever it’s called), and tried to jam that into the console slot. And then I was super confused when no videogame appeared on the tv screen haha

@Quantris Ай бұрын

ah yes the eternal quest to disprove "there's no such thing as a stupid question"

@MW-cx3sb 10 ай бұрын

The Australian 'Galah' accent is so great

@MrJonnywarren1985 9 ай бұрын

As an Australian, it's also a surprise to hear this accent sometimes

@Dell-ol6hb 11 ай бұрын

It’s probably designed to be that size and form factor so it can fit a lot of different types of memory chips depending on which is most cost effective or necessary for that specific game.

@neosharkey7401 10 ай бұрын

I was thinking that too. The cartridges are sold in sizes of like 4, 8, 16, 24 gb I think. My numbers may be off but Nintendo will try to buy the cheapest cartridge they can for the given game. (If a game is 9 gb they will buy the 8 gb cartridge and make you download 1gb of a game. This is what happened with pokemon gen 4 remakes.)

@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz 10 ай бұрын

@@neosharkey7401 Btw, Switch cartidges tend to have 8, 32 or 64 gb of space Edit: What? Damm I thought that what I needed to download in the gen 4 remakes were updates, what a shitty company. Still, the base game without internet is completely into the original cartridge, I guess you also download the replacement of the compi park

@kylemsguy_ 9 ай бұрын

Ironically the smaller chips are more likely to be soldered onto a larger board. The 32GB games are the ones that are only a single chip

@omegadavids6362 Ай бұрын

Current consoles are still using DVD while Switch doesn't

@kyler247 Ай бұрын

"I can't believe the whole game fits on this tiny little thing!" Nobody tell this clown about 2 TB micro sd cards...

@Scarabaeus15 11 ай бұрын

Just so you know: The "full" PCBs store in fact less than the "half" chips. Green PCB is up to 4 GB and the chip is 8 GB upwards. And its not that one is exclusive to Nintendo and the other one exclusive to third party. A few Nintendo games have the green 4 GB PCB as well like Toads Treasure Tracker. It is just that probably most third party games are smaller than 4 GB. I do own third party with half size chip like Asterix XXXL collection

@Ratsos12 10 ай бұрын

I’m sorry, but technology just seems like complete magic at this point 🫥 Computer engineers are so ridiculously impressive.

@raven75257 8 ай бұрын

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C Clarke

@felipematheus853 6 ай бұрын

Is just a bunch of transistors that create a maze for current flow, simple but can generate complex results. Nowadays you create a code and convert it into a physical schematic that can be printed into a chip. I like it more than coding, I hope to stop being a programmer and become an electronic engineer. More logical, less stressful.

@phoenixyt124 5 ай бұрын

"its crazy that a game fits on a motherboard that small nowadays" oh man, please nobody tell him that micro sd cards exist, with up to 1.5TB of storage. he will have a heart attack.

@CrookedGravityAnimations Ай бұрын

THE HECK IS THE PHRASE, “They weren’t telling porkies!” PORKIES?!

@rustkitty 11 ай бұрын

I figure they designed the cartridge so it can fit most common flash chip types to avoid supply chain bottlenecks. The larger chip is the same size you see on most USB thumb drives so it's probably easy for third party manufacturers to retool existing production lines for Switch cart production. I have only seen the half sized chips on first party cartridges, so that's probably Nintendo's dedicated manufacturing line that was only ever for Switch carts and nothing else.

@10MinutesofGameplay 11 ай бұрын

you can intall the game with out net. so yeah that mario is on the cartridge

@darrylkinslow3357 10 ай бұрын

Is this even English?

@xuryous 10 ай бұрын

@@darrylkinslow3357 I'm not an English speaker, but I understand.

@darrylkinslow3357 10 ай бұрын

@@xuryous You understand "you can intall the game with out net. so yeah that mario is on the cartridge"? Really? Then please, tell the world exactly what it means, because I do speak English and it does not make any sense.

@midleno8364 10 ай бұрын

@@darrylkinslow3357 He's pointing out how you can play the game without having to install or download about 200% more the size of the contents in the cartridge as you do with ps5 and xbox, don't be pedantic dude. the message is clear even if the grammar is not correct.

@darrylkinslow3357 10 ай бұрын

@@midleno8364 None of what he said, says any of that. You are just assuming things. If you read your comment, you're the one being pedantic. No, the message is not clear.

@MikeHawk-rr3ik 2 ай бұрын

Wait til he sees what's inside of a bag of chips.

@kurai3852 6 ай бұрын

classic cheeky companies only filling half a bag of chips

@l3xiomusic 10 ай бұрын

Some games need a bigger chip that fills the whole space though hence the cartridge size. As for games that can run on smaller chips, there is a point where if they made the cartridge as small as the microchip, it would be too difficult to handle with your bare hands and would need tweezers to insert the game, so it's better to just keep it at a manageable size.

@Gabriel_OGDC 10 ай бұрын

I mean, they also have to have a standard cartridge shape and size, or you’ll end up either with half the card sticking out of the console all the time, or it being impossible to get back out because it’s too small

@thedepressedguydoesstuff 6 ай бұрын

Now bros fingers are gonna taste like a cartridge 😭😭😭

@JoshHowardChannel Ай бұрын

Wait until he sees all the space in a NTSC NES GAME CART.

@SpineMillington 9 ай бұрын

If that blows your mind then just wait until you see a micro SD card.

@Aces.702 11 ай бұрын

First party games are half because of Nintendo's technology lol

@iNkenbiLL 11 ай бұрын

Nintendo's stelar technology: a micro SD.

@joogled1839 11 ай бұрын

@@iNkenbiLLyet sony and microsoft still rely on download discs. fat L.

@iNkenbiLL 11 ай бұрын

@@joogled1839 you push to play, I double-click to play, we are not the same.

@Blandscorpion76 11 ай бұрын

@joogled1839 or we just don't use disks at all....

@joogled1839 11 ай бұрын

@@Blandscorpion76 ah yes. the long lost physical media of not discs nor carts. now tell me, where did you think you were going with this?

@jonathanwade6926 3 ай бұрын

Wait until he finds out about the NES...

@pummisher1186 7 ай бұрын

You're in for a surprise with microSD cards, which also fit in the Switch.

@riakata 10 ай бұрын

That is pretty smart of them that "half full" one is literally a very specially packaged chip with the pads in the form for the cartridge while the other uses a standard footprint for flash memory chips but has to use a PCBa to get it to the outer pads format. I could imagine the 1st party one is much cheaper in volume but the upfront costs to make that chip are high and some 3rd party cartridges might use off the shelf parts.

@gadci4400 10 ай бұрын

" You have 152 missed calls from Nintendo "

@skycloud4802 5 ай бұрын

They've already sent the ninjas

@logan-oi4gn 5 ай бұрын

@@skycloud4802 We Already Got 'em

@HypeXesk 3 ай бұрын

It's literally a proprietary sd card at this point

@RageyRage82 5 күн бұрын

They were smart to make the cases bigger. More room for the labels, and of course they had foresight to predict maybe the chips would get bigger in the future?

@nedagamer9436 11 ай бұрын

"I switched your game boards is that bad?"

@KindaOffensiveHere 10 ай бұрын

TIMMY NOOOO

@Schnittertm1 10 ай бұрын

They've been doing this, since the NES was introduced in the US. The cartridge was huge, but the actual PCB inside was small, as it was the same size as the ones for the Famicom, which had a smaller cartridge size, too.

@MisterGoose 3 ай бұрын

Nintendo has been doing this since the NES there’s always been some extra room in cartridges so 1 it’s easier to handle, 2 it can extend the life of the console with cartridges getting more complex and 3 it allows them to push the capabilities of the console later on.

@Shadow-Silver-Reboot 8 ай бұрын

i thought it was like that green thingy stores the id and serial of the game and when its plugged in the switch reads the serial and ID and downloads it

@Teddy_Bear312 10 ай бұрын

So you don't lose it the moment you take your eyes off it for 5 seconds..

@Mephora 10 ай бұрын

I've recently upgraded to a 4TB NVme SSD and yeah it makes you realize how little space you actually need for storing a lot of data.

@gragogflying-anvil3605 10 ай бұрын

I've put a 2 TB one in my PC 4 years ago (2019) and I only recently passed the 50% usage mark. Didn't even care to clean up things I no longer need.

@Mephora 10 ай бұрын

@@gragogflying-anvil3605 for games and most software that's probably fine but the amount of stored video material from my phone and vods is creating a giant data pile

@klazzera 3 ай бұрын

I'm paying for the whole cartridge, so I want my cartridge FULL

@arshadsiddiqui9071 3 ай бұрын

Nintendo got that secret cost cutting sauce.

@1_yohanes_1 11 ай бұрын

That’s actually pretty cool mick 😮

@marcw6875 10 ай бұрын

I wsh they put them in bigger cartridges. Then maybe I wouldn't have to fetch my reading glasses to select a game. 😅

@Jawesome99 9 ай бұрын

Keep them in their original package? Or too much space taken up by those?

@cullbear55 5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of how that often was the case with NES cartridges. Some even just had the famicom board inside with an adapter.

@mmo4754 3 ай бұрын

".. to check out if it was true or not when I seen it..." this is incomprehensible to me. Nani???

@saulitix 10 ай бұрын

I saw somewhere that they make different cartridges for different game sizes, and in Nintendo they're master in optimization.

@ShinPorsche 11 ай бұрын

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@juliangonzalez9744 11 ай бұрын

or newer micro sd card

@ThePacmandevil 11 ай бұрын

Completely different protocol. but yes, it's solid storage. it's the same tech that's been used since the nintendo 64 lol it's not new conceptually

@FunnyParadox 11 ай бұрын

@@ThePacmandevil*since the DS, the N64 was still using ROM cartriges

@ThePacmandevil 11 ай бұрын

@@FunnyParadox I get that you're a furry and as such brain damaged, but the DS isn't the first to use a cart, or solid state storage. NES did it first. If you're talking portable, then the gameboy did.

@AntonLouko 11 ай бұрын

@@FunnyParadox no, tech is the same as N64 cartridge with different protocol. solid state storage is very ancient thing at this point, and by this i mean it is not new at all.

@mustafamashhood2700 8 ай бұрын

Dont lie, we all tasted the wax of the Nintendo cartridge 💀

@DrexYiii 3 ай бұрын

Wait until he discovers NES cartriges

@rockpapergrenade 10 ай бұрын

Try opening an old NES cartridge. Some are basically empty lol 🎮

@friedpancakes266 11 ай бұрын

It's done to save money. If a game is small, it doesn't need that much memory to store, so a smaller board is used to save on manufacturing costs

@JailerGamer 11 ай бұрын

Well if you havent heard of MicroSD.

@friedpancakes266 11 ай бұрын

@@JailerGamer MicroSD and physical switch games use the same type of data storage

@timotheatae 11 ай бұрын

That's not how it works. Most sizes of Game Card come on both kinds of Game Card, either board mounted or custom chip. Large production run, high storage production runs, like Tears of the Kingdom, use custom chips to save money on the PCB.

@soundspark 11 ай бұрын

Tears of the Kingdom uses a 32GB chip and it's the chip style rather than the PCB style.

@lunlunnnnn 10 ай бұрын

@@JailerGamerdenser storage is more expensive

@WolfyRed 6 ай бұрын

Uh.... It seems very easy to move it around inside the casing, as it just fell out when opened. People would think the games broken when the microchip just flipped to the other side 💀

@sdutango 6 ай бұрын

You can't believe the game was in that little cartridge? Smaller than that can be a 1TB+ SD card...

@MarkFonts 11 ай бұрын

industrial design has entered the chat

@urbanknish 9 ай бұрын

That's my trade! I suspect that physical games are already an endangered species. Many (most) are just "proof of purchase" that just give the device permission to download from the store.