DrROBschiz
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Carts are so expensive though. Good luck fitting Gen 8 sized games on carts at a reasonable price.
Yeah the margins could be tight..
Not sure. 32GB bulk flash memory is pretty cheap
Carts are so expensive though. Good luck fitting Gen 8 sized games on carts at a reasonable price.
Not full digital, but rather a return to cartridge-based consoles. This would make sense if they want the console & handheld to share most of the same games & scale them to the respective system's power.Full digital Nintendo?
Do we even want them to attempt that?
You'd still have to worry about how much space the motherboard would take up, as well as the fan.
So a while ago I met with a patent lawyer about an idea I had. He said that you cannot patent something if it's just taking already invented things and sticking them together, even if no one has put all those pieces together before. You have to have something truly new and novel.
It looks like this patent hinges on point 20 and following, which is of course spruced up patent logic, but sounds like backwards compatibility to me. But perhaps in some new way.
The world is not ready to go full digital. I highly doubt they'd do that.
I doubt they would go full digital. They need the retail space and I don't think downloadable cards will cut it.
yeah, lets be serious
SD cards can be absolutely huge. I don't think space is the problem there. Its more about production costs of the cards themselves. There are 32 GB sd cards for less than $20 and that's enough space to house maaaaaaaany of the games you buy today during this gen.
It's the inability to share games between in-house multiple units that irks me. Absolutely no point in buying digital on the 3DS if you have more than one. I'm about to have a 3DS and three 2DS this Christmas, and I've obviously stopped buying digital.
it also wouldn't piss retailers off and make shipping a lot easier. instead of releasing a wii u and 3ds version of smash, they could just release NX Smash, and it works for both. its actually smart, smarter than anything i could think of.Not full digital, but rather a return to cartridge-based consoles. This would make sense if they want the console & handheld to share most of the same games & scale them to the respective system's power.
Judging by the specs, they seem to be moving back to cartridges.Fuck that is a long first post.
Is Nintendo trying to patent a game console without a disk drive?
32gb cards cost 85 dollars? You must be out of your mind.But the price of that 32 gb card to a blue ray is gonna be a lot more. Is Nintendo gonna eat that cost or are they gonna pass it on to the consumer. $85 games would be bad.
32gb cards cost 85 dollars?
it also wouldn't piss retailers off and make shipping a lot easier. instead of releasing a wii u and 3ds version of smash, they could just release NX Smash, and it works for both. its actually smart, smarter than anything i could think of.
Lol check my edit. If anything going to cartridges is going to save Nintendo a lot of money. Hopefully it gets put back into the consoles innards.I just bought a 128gb SD card off Amazon for £30.
So no, lol
Is that memory card their new physical format? If not, I don't think a digital-only console would go over well with the general public. Data caps & limited access to the internet are still real problems that need to be overcome before a digital-only system can be accepted by consumers.
What?But the price of that 32 gb card to a blue ray is gonna be a lot more. Is Nintendo gonna eat that cost or are they gonna pass it on to the consumer. $85 games would be bad.
Lol check my edit. If anything going to cartridges is going to save Nintendo a lot of money. Hopefully it gets put back into the consoles innards.
thing is retail games arent dead yet, the safe option to not get people mad is to provide for both the physical and digital space. That way everyone is pleasedI think people overestimate how pissed off retailers would be. Here in the UK Game sells eShop codes for lower than the price on the actual eShop. Nintendo would work something out with them.
Sticking with carts for the N64 really hurt Nintendo with 3rd parties and started the decline of their empire. Why would that be different now, because SD technology is relatively cheap? Won't that still cost more for 3rd parties than Blu-Rays? Forgive my ignorance if this is a dumb question.
I don't think the new Zelda would come close to fitting on a cart or SD card. Let's be serious.
Sticking with carts for the N64 really hurt Nintendo with 3rd parties and started the decline of their empire. Why would that be different now, because SD technology is relatively cheap? Won't that still cost more for 3rd parties than Blu-Rays? Forgive my ignorance if this is a dumb question.
Games are already sixty, seventy dollars despite being optical media.Wouldn't cards make the Games really expensive?
Carts?
It's n64 all over again. Fuck industry standards son
What?
But the price of that 32 gb card to a blue ray is gonna be a lot more. Is Nintendo gonna eat that cost or are they gonna pass it on to the consumer. $85 games would be bad.
thing is retail games arent dead yet, the safe option to not get people mad is to provide for both the physical and digital space. That way everyone is pleased
Sticking with carts for the N64 really hurt Nintendo with 3rd parties and started the decline of their empire. Why would that be different now, because SD technology is relatively cheap? Won't that still cost more for 3rd parties than Blu-Rays? Forgive my ignorance if this is a dumb question.
Sd cards have been over 64GB for years now what are you talking about
Didn't later NES and SNES carts house extra hardware for beefing up games like the Super FX chip for Starfox? Would love to see something like that happen again if Carts for consoles make a comeback.
Carts?
It's n64 all over again. Fuck industry standards son
Rub it against your face. Do it nowBut the feels of the Wii U discs...