Darwinianevolution said:
DanneSandin said:
I can actually see this happen! I've been thinking about it myself for quite some time. The only problem I see is the actual sizes of these "cartridges"; how many GB can they have and still be affordable? Does anyone know? I'd like to see at the very least 32GB cards. Like someone already pointed out, Xenoblade X is 20GB - so we would need bigger cartridges than that.
And like Cobretti2 and Bofferbrauer already pointed out; it would be supper cool to have additional space on the cartridges to have your save files AND additional DLC! How else are savings DLC's going to work with a unified system with two different devices?
Everyone seems to think this solution would push 3rd parties even further away from Nintendo, but I'm not too sure about that. While the Fusion consoles wouldn't be as powerful as PS5 or XB2 you'd be selling your games on two devices at the same time for the price of one! This will probably entice Japanese developers especially, since home consoles are king in the West while Handhelds rule in the East; they'll make a HH game and be able to sell it on a home console in the West, thus opening up their game for a bigger market! That is IF Nintendo do away with region locking of course. And the same goes for Western publishers as well; make a home console game in the West but cater to the handheld market in Japan at the same time.
This COULD be a great way for Nintendo to regain some 3rd party support actually!
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Yes, but mostly on japanese developers. I like the idea of SD cards replacing CD-DVDs, but it would only bring the western developers back if they were able to manufacture 64gb or 128gb cards cheaply. GTA V is more than 50gb on PS4, Wolfenstein TNO is around 44gb on PS4... Imagine the space some games will need in the future. Japanese games don't need that much space, but big AAA western titles would have a harder time fitting their games on 64gb cards.
Then again, most western developers abandoned Nintendo a long time ago, so I don't know how much of a loss this would be.
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I agree, this would most likely benefit Japanese devs the most (IF region locking goes away, and it actually seems like Nintendo is thinking about it, no?). But, on the other hand, if you really want your 50GB on a Nintendo device, all you have to do is make it on a bigger SD-card. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. But I think we all know that Western devs simply won't do that since it'll cost a little bit more to produce...
