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Digital Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D Doesn’t Fit On The microSD Card Included With New Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo has confirmed that the digital version of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is too big for the microSD card included with the New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL systems. Those looking to download the game from the Nintendo eShop will need a microSD card that’s 8GB or larger. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D will launch in North America on April 10th and in Europe on April 2nd.

76 thoughts on “Digital Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D Doesn’t Fit On The microSD Card Included With New Nintendo 3DS”

  1. I’m not in the least bit surprised, if there’s anything I know about Xenoblade it’s that the game is huge. Also, think of the e-shop download time??? Definitely getting a physical copy to save myself the trouble.

    1. It shouldn’t be that long since the new 3ds was designed to be faster.
      Also sleep mode helps a lot as well.

      1. 32 is the limit (something to do with licensing issues with SDHC and SDXC), but you can format the 64GB one to make it compatible. You can easily find a guide online on how to do format between the two..

        1. 32 GB is the limit, but you can format a 64 GB SD Card with a program to FAT 32 and it will work with the 3DS

      1. 32 is the limit (something to do with licensing issues with SDHC and SDXC), but you can format the 64GB one to make it compatible. You can easily find a guide online on how to do format between the two.

      2. Nope! I also have a 64gig. You have to format it on a PC just a certain way…that said, I’m slightly worried about XC3D, because I thought the max file size for the format (fat32?) was 4 gigs…so hopefully 4 gig is enough, and it just won’t work on the 4gig card because it won’t have 4gig available after systdm resources.

        1. Ok, so the game seems to be 3.6 gig, so those of us with specially formatted microSD’s should be safe (with our 4gig max limit) – cutting close though! D;

  2. Haha…definitely getting this game at GameStop. It’s just too good to not have a physical copy of, much like Zelda. 😜

  3. My Wind Waker Is Bigger (I.A.B.A.B)

    Why use the SD card that Nintendo gives anyways? I always fucking replace them with better ones.

    1. Same.

      The microSD that comes with the New Nintendo 3DS XL is a lot better than the regular one, though. Love to wirelessly backup my files on PC, especially because I have so many StreetPass Mii Plaza creds (gotta love living in FL).

      1. The biggest complaint wasn’t the mandatory addition of a memory card purchase. The biggest complaint was because the cards sold by Sony are overpriced

        1. That system had so many problems.

          I think both of them are true. They had to buy it separate because it didn’t come with one and they were overprice as well. I just know both situation is bad for person for not knowing.

        1. Personally I believe it is a smart choice if the charger adds any unnecessary cost. I’ve had all DS consoles and the last thing I need is yet another grey charger to add to the eternal tangle that is the wire drawer; plus, if I can save a few bucks that I can then put to good use then all the better.
          The only problem with this approach is that the charger needs to be readily available in stores for those buying their first DS system, which indeed has been an issue; what Nintendo could do to fix it is simply sell two versions, one with the charger included at a small extra cost and one without it; retailers could do the same and just offer a charger at a lowered price with the purchase of the console.

      2. Unlike Sony’s software, most 3DS games save directly into the cartridge and system updates go to the system’s memory, the SD card is generally used to store downloaded content.

      3. Vita has been including memory cards (and a game) since 6 months after its launch. They usually have the 4 or 8 GB memory card.

        The problem is needing larger memory and it being too freaking expensive.

  4. jtz Igbo Tribe and Decedent of Gad.

    New York Auto Show stars April 1st. While Nintendo is in the past, the 2016 Kia Optima is ready to compete with the 2016 redesigned Chevy Malibu. Unlike Nintendo, Kia’s redesigned Optima was targeted toward 2016 rivals not models already out in the market. The 2016 A Lexus RX is made to compete with the 2016/17 Mercedes M. There is also a redesigned Honda Pilot made to compete with the 2016 Kia Sorento. While Nintendo’s Wii U was made to be better than the PS3. Kia and Toyota knows you have to think futuristicly for future products.

    1. Thats the third dumbest thing I have heard today.

      Second being cashier asking me if I want a receipt after I bought a bottle of water.

      First being my boss asking me to work late.

      1. The cashier thing isn’t so dumb because it’s mandatory for people to offer a receipt. Some places even give you your purchase free if you weren’t offered a receipt. So as annoying as it may be, it’s not their fault.

  5. 8GB should be standard. mSD cards are so cheap nowadays.. Also, (off-topic) pretty silly that you have to pay for a charger.

    1. I even found a 64GB High Speed Micro card at Target for $15 which is a lucky find for me. SD cards are very cheap these days and Nintendo should’ve update it to 8GB as a new standard.

  6. I still haven’t touched the wii version of the game, and I bought that for only $40 during a GameStop Black Friday special.

    1. *Readies hand to slap you as hard as I possibly can*
      “Why you ungrateful little piece of street trash! I ought to…!”

    1. Exactly, digital purchasing means no bargains (Unless you wait six years until the eShop decides a game is old enough to discount two bucks from it) and you don’t own a copy that you can resell if you wish to.
      Digital purchases are poison to consumers.

    2. au contraire.
      I totally love the eshop.
      No waiting for delivery or walking to the city, no changing of cardrigedes/discs, game can’t get lost, environment friendly, …
      Just buy whatever you want to play with a few clicks and start playing some minutes later when the download finished.

          1. You get your games back, but you do not get your save data. And there I’d guarantee you’ll get your games either.

            1. I understand your concern, I’ve done it though. A pain in the ass? Maybe, depends. As for game saves, if you keep yourself backedup on PC, there’s a chance you can save them, but they really need a better way to back everything up.

    1. Think you can use even 128 gig SD cards. But native support on system is on 32gb, need to do a format workaround to get bigger cards to work.

  7. The story of Mario and Luigi

    It all started when our antagonizing protagonist, Mario, woke up in a bush. It was the fourth time it had happened. Feeling scarcely stunned, Mario attacked a banana, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Heart filled with earnest fortitude, he realized that his beloved long slender mushroom head was missing! Immediately he called his favorite rape victim, Luigi. Mario had known Luigi for (plus or minus) 1.2 billion years, the majority of which were electric ones. Luigi was unique. He was congenial though sometimes a little… abrasive. Mario called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.

    Luigi picked up to a very sad Mario. Luigi calmly assured him that most Indonesian devil cats sneeze before mating, yet 3-legged wallabies usually exotically belch *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Mario. Why was Luigi trying to distract Mario? Because he had snuck out from Mario’s with the long slender mushroom head only five days prior. It was a enchanting little long slender mushroom head … how could he resist?

    It didn’t take long before Mario got back to the subject at hand: his long slender mushroom head . Luigi yawned. Relunctantly, Luigi invited him over, assuring him they’d find the long slender mushroom head . Mario grabbed his George Foreman grill and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, Luigi realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the long slender mushroom head and he had to do it fearlessly. He figured that if Mario took the time machine, he had take at least three minutes before Mario would get there. But if he took the Segway? Then Luigi would be excessively screwed.

    Before he could come up with any reasonable ideas, Luigi was interrupted by six selfish marmots that were lured by his long slender mushroom head . Luigi panicked; ‘Not again’, he thought. Feeling concerned, he thoughtfully reached for his gerbil and recklessly backhanded every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent–the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the lemur-infested moor, squealing with discontent. He exhaled with relief. That’s when he heard the Segway rolling up. It was Mario.

    —-o0o—-

    As he pulled up, he felt a sense of urgency. He had had to make an unscheduled stop at McDonald’s to pick up a 12-pack of bananas, so he knew he was running late. With a hasty leap, Mario was out of the Segway and went earnestly jaunting toward Luigi’s front door. Meanwhile inside, Luigi was panicking. Not thinking, he tossed the long slender mushroom head into a box of ninja stars and then slid the box behind his George Foreman grill. Luigi was stunned but at least the long slender mushroom head was concealed. The doorbell rang.

    ‘Come in,’ Luigi scandalously purred. With a calculated push, Mario opened the door. ‘Sorry for being late, but I was being chased by some abrasive self-righteous ass in a neighborhood-terrorizing crotch rocket,’ he lied. ‘It’s fine,’ Luigi assured him. Mario took a seat frighteningly close to where Luigi had hidden the long slender mushroom head . Luigi panicked trying unsuccessfully to hide his nervousness. ‘Uhh, can I get you anything?’ he blurted. But Mario was distracted. Like a drunken sailor at happy hour, Luigi noticed a insensitive look on Mario’s face. Mario slowly opened his mouth to speak.

    ‘…What’s that smell?’

    Luigi felt a stabbing pain in his armpit when Mario asked this. In a moment of disbelief, he realized that he had hidden the long slender mushroom head right by his oscillating fan. ‘Wh-what? I don’t smell anything..!’ A lie. A oafish look started to form on Mario’s face. He turned to notice a box that seemed clearly out of place. ‘Th-th-those are just my grandma’s dangerous oil-soaked rags from when she used to have pet albino cats. She, uh…dropped ’em by here earlier’. Mario nodded with fake acknowledgement…then, before Luigi could react, Mario deftly lunged toward the box and opened it. The long slender mushroom head was plainly in view.

    Mario stared at Luigi for what what must’ve been two days. With fist clenched and teeth gnashed, Luigi groped surreptitiously in Mario’s direction, clearly desperate. Mario grabbed the long slender mushroom head and bolted for the door. It was locked. Luigi let out a sassy chuckle. ‘If only you hadn’t been so protective of that thing, none of this would have happened, Mario,’ he rebuked. Luigi always had been a little clueless, so Mario knew that reconciliation was not an option; he needed to escape before Luigi did something crazy, like… start chucking potatos at him or something. In a blinding moment of misguided bravado, he gripped his long slender mushroom head tightly and made a dash toward the window, diving headlong through the glass panels.

    Luigi looked on, blankly. ‘What the hell? That seemed excessive. The other door was open, you know.’ Silence from Mario. ‘And to think, I varnished that window frame eleven days ago…it never ends!’ Suddenly he felt a tinge of concern for Mario. ‘Oh. You ..okay?’ Still silence. Luigi walked over to the window and looked down. Mario was gone.

    —-o0o—-

    Just yonder, Mario was struggling to make his way through the foxy forest behind Luigi’s place. Mario had severely hurt his ear during the window incident, and was starting to lose strength. Another pack of feral marmots suddenly appeared, having caught wind of the long slender mushroom head . One by one they latched on to Mario. Already weakened from his injury, Mario yielded to the furry onslaught and collapsed. The last thing he saw before losing consciousness was a buzzing horde of marmots running off with his long slender mushroom head .

    About four hours later, Mario awoke, his double chin throbbing. It was dark and Mario did not know where he was. Deep in the arid secret vineyard, Mario was abnormally lost. Before anyone could take off their pants, he remembered that his long slender mushroom head was taken by the marmots. But at that point, he was just thankful for his life. That’s when, to his horror, a shrunken marmot emerged from the disease-infested jungle. It was the alpha marmot. Mario opened his mouth to scream but was cut short when the marmot sunk its teeth into Mario’s taint. With a faint groan, the life escaped from Mario’s lungs, but not before he realized that he was a failure.

    Less than four miles away, Luigi was entombed by anguish over the loss of the long slender mushroom head . ‘MY PRECIOUS!!’ he cried, as he reached for a sharpened gerbil. With a careful thrust, he buried it deeply into his shin. As the room began to fade to black, he thought about Mario… wishing he had found the courage to tell him that he loved him. But he would die alone that day. All that remained was the long slender mushroom head that had turned them against each other, ultimately causing their demise. And as the dew on melancholy sappling branches began to reflect the dawn’s reddish glare, all that could be heard was the chilling cry of distant marmots, desecrating all things sacred to virtuous men, and perpetuating an evil that would reign for centuries to come. Our heroes would’ve lived unhappily ever after, but they were too busy being dead. So, no one lived forever after, the end. :'(

    1. As soon as I read “It all started”, I knew there would be a wall of text so I skipped past the whole comment. Nice try. XD

  8. Even if the N3DS has faster eShop connection I wouldn’t go digital. My internet connection will take too long to download 8Gb and eShop traffic is a possibility.

    Retail it is for me…

    1. I’ve got a 16GB for my 3DS(It’s the original 3DS in Aqua Blue.) I have downloaded 6 Full 3DS games, 10 Virtual Console games and 5 demos and I have plenty of space left.

  9. jtz Igbo Tribe and Decedent of Gad.

    The all new Nissan Murano is one hell of a design. when in R&D like 5 years go, Nissan thought about 10 years ahead not about the 2008 Toyota Highlander.

  10. If Nintendo didn’t change how you are able to switch out the micro sd card, this wouldn’t be as big of an issue. As it stands, forcing the consumer to remove the back plate is a completely asinine design “feature”, right up there with the original Nokia N-Gage where you had to remove the battery pack to switch games.

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