: A complete dump of a physical game cartridge. These are often the "base" game files.
Of course, the official way to acquire No Man’s Sky is the . The digital version sold by Nintendo is, technically, a base NSP wrapped in legal encryption. The eShop experience for No Man’s Sky is unique because of the file size. At launch, the game required approximately 3.7 GB—an astonishingly small figure compared to the 15 GB on other consoles, achieved through heavy texture compression and the removal of base-building penalties for other players (multiplayer was initially omitted entirely). No Man-s Sky Switch NSP XCI -Update- -eShop-
This is the format used for digital titles downloaded directly from the eShop . If you buy the game digitally, your Switch installs it as an NSP. This format is also used for Updates and DLC . : A complete dump of a physical game cartridge