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    Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

    onlyplanz_80y6mtBy onlyplanz_80y6mtAugust 15, 2025No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds
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    The Mini SSD card is not and should by no means be a formally ratified customary, however it does intention to unravel an actual downside for transportable gaming programs—the necessity for quick storage that may load video games at speeds approaching these of an inner SSD, with out requiring customers to take their very own programs aside to carry out upgrades.
    Why are video games getting so dang massive, anyway?

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    A 2023 evaluation from TechSpot instructed that sport measurement had elevated at a mean price of roughly 6.3GB per yr between 2012 and 2023—video games that are available in over 100GB aren’t the norm, however they are not exhausting to search out. A few of that enhance comes from improved graphics and the higher-resolution textures wanted to make video games look good on 4K screens and TVs. However TechSpot additionally famous that the storage necessities for narrative-heavy, cinematic-heavy video games like The Final of Us Half 1 have been being pushed simply as a lot by audio information and help for a number of languages.
    “In whole, almost 17 GB of storage is required for [The Last of Us] knowledge unrelated to graphics,” wrote writer Nick Evanson. “That is bigger than any complete sport from our 2010 pattern! This sample was constant throughout almost all of the ‘Godzilla-sized’ video games we examined—these that includes quite a few cinematics, in depth speech, and appreciable localization have been sometimes a lot bigger than the remainder of the pattern in a given yr.”
    For an additional outstanding latest instance, take into account the set up sizes for the Mac model of Cyberpunk 2077. The model of the sport on Steam, the Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG runs about 92GB. Nonetheless, the model accessible for obtain from Apple’s App Retailer is a whopping 159GB, solely as a result of it consists of the entire sport’s voiceovers in the entire languages it helps. (That is due to App Retailer guidelines that require apps to have all doable information included once they’re submitted for evaluation.)
    It is clear that there is a want for quick storage upgrades that do not require you to disassemble your console or PC utterly. Whether or not it is this new “mini SSD,” a quicker iteration of microSD Categorical, or another as-yet-unknown storage format stays to be seen.

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