![]() ![]() It's unlikely that you'll notice how much slower the drive is day-to-day, but it will load games slower, and it will take longer to start up when you turn it on, even if it's just by a couple of seconds. ![]() The second price tier for the Steam Deck features a 256GB NVMe SSD, and even the slowest NVMe drive out there is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-6x faster than the storage of the base Steam Deck. Right now, eMMC storage is limited to around 400MB/s, which is slower than a SATA SSD, which can reach around 500MB/s – and SATA SSDs are pretty obsolete by today's standards anyways. (Image credit: Samsung) Going back to 2015 storage speeds Even Resident Evil Village, which is pretty modest when it comes to AAA games is 28GB which is half of what will likely be available when the Steam Deck ships with SteamOS preinstalled. If I want to play some Death Stranding while on the train, that's a 63GB download by itself, which means if you buy the base version of the Steam Deck, you're simply not going to be able to play Death Stranding at all unless you invest in a microSD card.Īnd if you want to play something like Red Dead Redemption 2? That's 120GB, which is twice what the Steam Deck offers. That won't be the case with the Steam Deck. ![]() Some of them do take up a bit of space on the device either way, but it means I don't have to fork over the cash for an expensive 512GB microSD card. ![]() But with the Switch it's totally fine, because the big AAA Nintendo games, I can just buy a cartridge of those. Now, full disclosure, I have offset the internal storage of my own Nintendo Switch with a 200GB MicroSD card, and even that isn't as much storage as I'd like. ![]()
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