Several of Sony's cameras have combination CFexpress Type A/SD card readers. They support full-size SD cards, though, not microSD.
I honestly don't think it's a given that [redacted] will have a substantial I/O deficit. UFS 3.1 can achieve as high as
2GB/s read speeds, which puts it in touching distance of the Series S and X, and it's old (the review I linked was from 2020),
cheap and
power-efficient. The last one is what's leaning me more towards UFS 3.1 now, as Micron claim their UFS 3.1 parts consume around 40% less power than their UFS 2.1 parts, despite a considerable increase in speed. Nintendo switched from LPDDR4 to LPDDR4X in Switch models from 2019 onwards despite not using the higher speed, presumably just for the power savings. I could see a similar thing happening here where Nintendo use UFS 3.1 for the reduced power draw even if they don't think they need the higher speeds. Removable storage is a different matter, but there are options there.
Fast internal storage is actually the one area where Nintendo can compete with Sony and MS if they really wanted to without taking a hit in power consumption. Hell, if they really wanted to they could hit
3.8GB/s with UFS 4.0, which according to Samsung consumes a similar power draw to UFS 3.1. I don't think UFS 4.0 is likely, both due to cost and the timing of getting the necessary interface on T239, but the option would have been there for Nintendo if they really wanted it.
Thanks. I'm surprised people are reading this and taking it as some kind of confirmation that Nintendo won't release [redacted] this FY. If Nintendo wanted to convey that they're not releasing new hardware this fiscal year, they would just say so explicitly, like they've done in the past, they wouldn't vaguely hint at it in answers to unrelated questions.
There are two questions pertinent to the new hardware which are worth posting in full, Q4 and Q7:
The most interesting line here is
"We do not believe that reaching a certain number of annual playing users means that there is no need to release a next-generation platform." It's a bit confusingly worded, as it's a double negative (Furukawa is disagreeing with the negative statement originally posed), but I think it's pretty notable. The questioner basically said "Given annual users are still growing, do you even need next-gen hardware any time soon?", and gave Furukawa the option of just saying something like "Yeah, we're happy that the user base is still growing, and it shows that there's still a lot of life left in the Switch", but instead he said pretty much the opposite, stating that despite the healthy user numbers, Nintendo
will need to release next-gen hardware.
Of course he's not saying when that next-gen hardware needs to be released, but it seems a strange answer to give if (as many people expect) they won't even announce next-gen hardware this FY.
Confirming that the Switch's early announcement was a special case, and basically saying "Nintendo will announce hardware and software whenever we damn well want to".