jarrod on 20 December 2010
I think the 1GB minimum is more provoking actually. For previous Nintendo console min/max mask-ROM sizes that were/are produced...
- NES: 8K to 1.5MB (1983-1995) 192x increase
- SNES: 256K to 6MB (1990-2000) 24x increase
- N64: 4MB to 64MB (1996-2002) 16x increase
- GB/C: 128K to 8MB (1989-2002) 64x increase
- GBA: 4MB to 32MB (2001-2008) 8x increase
- DS/i: 8MB to 512MB (2004-current) 64x increase
- 3DS: 1GB to ??? (2011-???)
...if 3DS follows the same sort of ROM increase as DS did, we'll have 3DS cards weighing in at 64GB by the time the system's done. That's larger than a double sided Blu-ray!
