{"id":15414,"date":"2025-06-26T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15414\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:01:09","slug":"switch-2-drag-x-drive-estimated-file-size-revealed-by-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15414\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 &#8216;Drag x Drive&#8217; Estimated File Size Revealed By Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <a class=\"sub-button external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube824k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Nintendo surprised us with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/nintendo-confirms-the-release-date-for-drag-x-drive-on-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update about the release date<\/a> of the 3-on-3 sports game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/drag-x-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drag x Drive<\/a>, confirming it would be arriving on the Switch 2 this August.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/drag-x-drive-switch-2-eshop-price-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a price reveal<\/a> and now in another update, we&#8217;ve got what appears to be the game&#8217;s estimated file size. According to Nintendo&#8217;s official store listing it will require a download of 1.7GB.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, it&#8217;s nowhere near the size of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donkey Kong<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Kart<\/a> game and is instead closer to the file size of Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/nintendo-switch-2-welcome-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Welcome Tour<\/a> eShop title.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, pre-orders are live for $19.99 (or your regional equivalent) and you can pre-load the title, so you&#8217;ll be able to play it as soon as it launches.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 comes loaded with a total of 256GB storage, which is a huge step up on the Switch&#8217;s internal space, but if you are running out of space, you can always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-microsd-express-cards-for-nintendo-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand your storage with a microSD Express card<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Drag x Drive\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/25a4918e715f3\/drag-x-drive.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/drag-x-drive.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Drag x Drive\"\/><\/a>Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Will you be checking out this game when it arrives this August? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube824k Earlier this week, Nintendo surprised us with an update about the release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4210,158,67,132,5803,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-15414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-switch-2","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-upcoming-releases","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114747911949606503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}