Tip: it’s teeny small
If you’ve ever questioned what was really inside a Nintendo Switch cart, then question no more, dear reader. Over on YouTube, Tinker Man Mick has actually published a Short (fine, it was published in July 2023, so we’re a bit late, however who cares) to show that some Switch carts in fact have a fair bit of void.
Breaking open a copy of Let’s Sing 2021you can see that the board within does certainly fill the whole housing, while a copy of Super Mario Odyssey really has a fair bit of unused area. Now, the video is entitled ‘Why Does Nintendo Do This?’, however we believe it’s relatively apparent. Change carts are quite little to start with, so making it even smaller sized would no doubt make it harder to manage while leaving much less area for publishers to connect their printed video game labels.
The entire thing advises us of NES carts, which in the West were a lot larger than Famicom carts in Japan. In spite of being larger, nevertheless, the boards within were generally the very same size. Naturally, this was quite a style choice from Nintendo, with the carts themselves being front-loaded into the NES console.
Still, it’s cool to see what’s in fact inside a Switch cart. We’ve undoubtedly not pulled any of ours apart; they’re merely too valuable to us!
What do you make from this brief video on Switch cartridges? Are you shocked at the size of their innards? Let us understand with a remark.
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