Speculation:Nintendo NX to use cartridges

[Liquid]

It will definitely be faster than a optical disc, but I just wonder what the cost will look like per unit.

 

[twan83]

Also someone spotted a slip up from MIyamoto's translator mentioning this from the recent E3 interviews for Zelda:BOTW.



This sort of corroborates the unified library they've been talking about in the past. A cartridge based system would mean games would effectively need to be bought once but can be played on the home console or portable handheld. I think this would be a great move as this would mean the NX would have a HUGE library of games as everything would be made once and played either on the console or portable. Home console Pokemon Games

It could possibly not even have an optical drive to save costs and be smaller.

If u could play ur 3ds games on nx that shyt gonna sell a boatload

Like use ur nx and portable controller at home for a game like Pokemon

Then when ur out use ur 3ds for Pokemon

I can see $$$$$$$ from that alone

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

From one side this is kinda but on the other hand it's also kinda because of course Nintendo would think of going back to cartridges again.

Catridges are way more durable than CDs. As long as they fix the storage limitations, I see this as a great move

 

[Deltron]

nx portable/console hybrid confirmed?

instacop if it is.

 

[Kingshango]

No optical disc drive could mean:

No moving parts, so the console will be silent as a turned off Wii U. ()

Higher console durability.

More room for better specs(?)

Games will have little to no loading times so a game like Zelda BotW would benefit greatly from this.

No need for manditory installs, which is my biggest pet peeve with the PS4 and XB1.

The one issue would be cart/card pricing tho. Eager to see what Nintendo will do with that.

 

[Supreme]

shyt going to be expensive to do this​

 

[Liquid]

Catridges are way more durable than CDs. As long as they fix the storage limitations, I see this as a great move

storage limitations are over, it's how cheap they can get these out. A disc is what 3 cents per at this point?

 

[KravenMorehead™]

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

storage limitations are over, it's how cheap they can get these out. A disc is what 3 cents per at this point?

That cost won't be passed down to us anyways. Plus I'm sure the difference is miniscule, especially with royalties associated with Bluray tech.

 

[daze23]

This is actually a good move. Solid-state storage taken a couple of quantum leaps since the N64 days. You get the advantage of higher than BD capacity with speeds greater than a hard drive, plus I think I read somewhere that it's actually cheaper than a blu ray disc at this point.

I doubt it's cheaper than blu ray

 

[BaldingSoHard]

I doubt it's cheaper than blu ray

Yea I looked but couldn't find where I read that.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Better yet.. games should be on a damn flash card... 8gb cards are cheap.. that's way more that what some of these next gen games are.. worst case use a 64GB ... they still cheap