| Soundwave said: Say buh bye to the disc drive. It's unneccessary, backwards compatibility hasn't done sh*t for the Wii U either and it actually makes Nintendo more money to charge you again to re-buy back catalog titles rather than just letting you replay your 5-8 year old discs. The next wave of Nintendo's 3DS style cartridges will likely go up to as high as 32GB anyway, which is the same size as a Blu-Ray disc. The Wii U disc drive is horrid too, thing is ridiculously loud, it sounds like its having a seizure anytime Bayonetta 1 has a cutscene for instance. Nintendo never wanted to use optical discs in the first place, now they can finally be rid of them for good. |
If anything is going, it's the cartridges, not the disk drive. The HH will be digital only while the console may have two variations; one with and one without a disk drive and more mamory.
Backwards compatability is going no where. Nintendo does not make more money from charging you to rebuy the same game. They waste recources remaking the same VC games over and over, and have you pay a repurchasing fee to cover that cost. On top of that, third parties have to remake each title again, wasting the same recources that could be used adding more games to the VC.
Nintendo all but confirmed BC on the next systems with its statement on consumer connections through a platform instead of hardware, where they specifically mention BC.
