| haxxiy said: Extremely unlikely. Every disc costed thousands of dollars just a few years ago, and unless found a way to do what InPhase didn't manage to do over 10 years and $100,000,000 of R&D, and reduce disc costs by the order of a few magnitudes in a few years, and create a feasible way to manufacture and distribute them, it's impossible, and even then we'd be in N64 levels of media inconvenience. You have a better chance of seeing a quantum processor inside of the Wii-U... unless you meant after the Wii U? Well we don't even know if there is still going to be a market for consoles by then, or how technology is going to develop, so the point is moot. Anyways if anyone were to introduce a new media, that'd probably be Sony. |
"a few years ago" is a fairly long time. Also, the discs only cost $180. It was the reader that cost thousands of dollars.
It takes lots of R&D and expensive early products to develop new technology. Of course they were going to be expensive.
And yes, I was talking about what comes after Wii U - the next generation after the upcoming one. And while we can speculate about whether the market will still be there (I expect that it will, although it may look somewhat different), it's just as interesting to speculate on where Nintendo is expecting to go, and I think they have their eye on holographic media.
Anyway, I'm not suggesting that Nintendo would be "introducing" the new media. I'm suggesting that they intend to hold a few key patents, and then use it in their future consoles - thereby forcing competitors to either pay royalties or find an alternative medium. Can you think of another reason why Nintendo would have partnered with InPhase to such an extent that they now hold a joint patent?
