The Best Switch Micro SD Card Is at Amazon for October Prime Day

Oct 14, 2024

Here's your chance to get one of the best Micro SD cards for your Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch. As part of the October Prime Day Event, Amazon is offering a 1TB TeamGroup Pro Plus Micro SDXC card for only $59.99. Besides being compatible with gaming handhelds, the Pro Plus has a faster speed rating than most Micro SD cards in this price range and would make an excellent card for 4K action cameras and DSLRs.

The Nintendo Switch and Switch OLED have 32GB and 64GB of internal storage, respectively, some of it reserved for the OS. To give you an idea of how paltry those capacities are, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom uses up 16GB and Breath of the Wild about 13.5GB. If bought digitally, those two games alone would take up all of your internal storage on the OG Switch console. If there's any one Switch accessory that we think is absolutely required, it's a high-capacity memory card.

The Steam Deck is equally space constrained. Although it starts out with more base storage (64GB to 512GB), Steam games can easily take up far more space than that base storage. For example, the best games to play on Steam Deck take up over 60GB each. Even if you opted for the 512GB model, you're going to run out of space sooner than you think. For more information, check out our Steam Deck review or, for that matter, our ASUS ROG Ally review.

The TeamGroup Pro Plus card offers an extra 1TB of storage on top of your base capacity. It's compatible with virtually any device that accepts the Micro SDXC card standard including the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, and the ASUS ROG Ally for that matter. The Pro Plus is a U3 A2 V30 rated card with read speeds of up to 160MB/s and write speeds of up to 110MB/s, which means it is faster than most Micro SDXC cards at its price point. That makes it a good option for devices with hefty transfer requirements, like 4K action cameras and DSLR cameras.

This is easily one of the best Steam Deck deals and Nintendo Switch deals available for October Prime Day, and absolutely worth considering if you find yourself short on space all too often. For more deals, check out our definitive Prime Day article for current news on everything related to the upcoming October Prime Day Sales event, including what deals to expect and whether or not you should wait for Black Friday.

Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.