If you got your hands on a shiny new Nintendo Switch 2 last year, first of all, congrats, it’s a wonderful console, and a whole lot of fun. Second, it is probably, unfortunately, already yelling at you about storage. The console ships with 256GB of onboard space, which sounds generous until you download a couple of chunky first-party games, dabble in a few third-party ports, and suddenly find yourself doing mental gymnastics over which titles you can afford to delete.
Thankfully storage for the Switch 2 is a whole lot cheaper than it was only a few months ago, especially if you take advantage of the latest offers in the New Year sales. Right now, Amazon has knocked the price of the 256GB Samsung P9 MicroSD Express card down to $34.99.
That is a genuinely good deal, not just a “marketing says its good” good. For context, the best price seen previously on a 256GB card like this was $39.99 during Cyber Monday, and deals have been stubbornly scarce since the Switch 2 launched. At this price, you are effectively doubling your available storage for less than the cost of a full-price indie game, and arguably getting far more long-term value out of it.
There is also no performance catch here. This is not a no-name memory card with a suspiciously low price and even more suspicious reviews. We have already reviewed this exact Samsung P9 MicroSD Express card, and it comes with a strong recommendation. Load times stay snappy, downloads do not crawl, and it behaves exactly as you would want storage designed for Nintendo’s new hardware to behave.
It is also worth stressing, because someone always tries it, the Switch 2 only supports MicroSD Express cards. That old MicroSD card you pulled out of your original Switch will not work for storing games here, no matter how much you wish it would. While they look nearly identical, MicroSD Express cards are on a completely different level, with speeds of up to 800MB/s. Most standard MicroSD cards struggle to break 200MB/s on a good day.
If you are serious about using your Switch 2 without constantly playing storage Tetris, this is the upgrade to grab, and at $34.99, it is an easy win.
