"Once you start to modularize [hardware], the game is over," says Ash Ashutosh, founder and executive vice president and CTO of AppIQ, a Burlington, Mass.-based storage software start-up.

With game sizes exploding and the Switch 2 being a more powerful system, you might be worried about running out of space. We've all run out of storage on our Switch 1 many times, right?

According to the Japanese My Nintendo Store, Mario Kart World will be the largest launch game at 23.4GB - around 10 percent of overall storage capacity. Nintendo Switch 2 Hands-On Preview ...

Out of habit, I immediately scrolled to the “Game file size” section on each page to see how much storage each game will require. Some Switch 2 game file sizes are bigger than I expected ...