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jarrod on 30 March 2010
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scottie said:
jarrod said:

scottie said:
Sorry to get off topic, but with so many people being wrong about the same thing I have to

The next Nintendo home console will NOT use Blu Ray.

Nes - proprietry storage format
Snes - proprietry storage format
N64- proprietry storage format
GC - proprietry storage format
Wii - proprietry storage format

Gameboy - Proprietry storage format

GBA - Proprietry storage format

DS - Proprietry storage format
Wii2 - a competitor's storage format



What the hell kind of pattern recognition is that?

Blu-ray isn't "a competitor's storage format", it's owned by a consortium of companies (just like DVD, which GC/Wii's disc format is based off of).  And Sony isn't even the top rights holder, Matsushita is (who also developed GC/Wii's disc format).  Pretty easy to see where this is going...

Sony also held a stake in Matrix Semiconductor, who's 3DM is the format used for DS cards.  That didn't keep Nintendo from also investing in the company and using the format (which is now owned by SanDisk)...

Crap, I forgot handhelds. Your points are irrelevant

 

GC/Wii does not use DVD. They use a proprietry format based off DVD. I did not say that Nintendo wouldn't use a proprietry format based off Blu-Ray, so there was no point you raising that point.

 

As for your bizarre claims about the DS. The DS game card technology is owned by Nintendo, and manufactured on their behalf by Macronix. Perhaps you should cite your sources in order that I may more thouroghly point out how incorrect they are

Here's a link to Nintendo's original investment in Matrix.  After the SanDisk buyout, press pretty much went silent understandably.  There's was more at Matrix's website (both on applications and technical specifications), but that was also taken down with the SanDisk purchase.  3DM is more a method or manufacturing process (literally stacking memory arrays vertically, with  rewritable spec) than a distinct proprietary format though, and it's compatible with other solid state memory solutions.  And yes, it's the basis for those teeny tiny DS cards.

Also, the Wii disc drive can read DVDs with a simple firmware hack.  The only reason it's not DVD compliant out of the box is because Nintendo didn't want to comply with DVD forum spec (ie: put in a digital audio out) and didn't want to pay license fees.  The technology for GC/Wii games is DVD though, just like PS2 games, Xbox games or 360 games.