Prediction: "Cartridges" will return for the Nintendo home console

[DanneSandin]

RolStoppable said:

 

DanneSandin said:

I think that your response to me actually ties in to the response to Mnementh as well; Nintendo HAS been stupid - on more than one occassion, it's not really a given that you will be able to buy a game from your smart phone and have it downloaded on both your HC and HH. Come on, it's Nintendo we're talking about. They've been lagging behind in online infrastructure since the early 00's - at least. I seriously hope you're right that Nintendo are shaking things up within the company and trying to make an effort to catch up to the competition, but Nintendo is Nintendo.

With digital games becoming more and more prominent, and Nintendo themselves are releasing specific eShop games and pushing digital, I wonder if 2 GB of internal storage plus 128GB SD-cards will be enough... Just look at XCX; that's 20GB right there. One game. You can fit about 6-7 of those games on a 128 GB card, and that's not all that much really. I'd manage very well with that "limited" space, but others won't

If you want to know where Nintendo is going, then you have to listen to what they say instead of looking at the current market performance. If you focus on the latter, then yes, it looks like Nintendo has absolutely no clue. But it's a mistake to do that.

I didn't suggest 2GB of internal storage for the next handheld, I pointed out what the 3DS has. The next handheld will definitely offer more internal storage, plus 128GB SD cards don't have to be the limit as storage capacities improve over time. XCX is an exception for game sizes, not the rule. If you run worst-case-scenarios for the Xbox One and PS4, then these systems can't store more than ten games either. But we don't hear much about that being a problem.

They've talked the talk before but didn't walk the walk, if you know what I mean. Nintendo is really good and making things SOUND good, but then they don't deliver. I'd almost say it's naive to think Nintendo won't fuck up certain things about the NX/Fusion, but of course we don't know yet what those things could be right now.

Naw, I know you didn't mean that. All I'm saying is that you can't have all that much storage in a HH console, and that's why it might be a good idea to have that extra storage for patches and DLC on the actual game-card.

XCX might be the exception NOW for NINTENDO games, but I also think it's an indication of where game sizes are going. Just take a look at Bloodborne's download size; 41GB. It it only goes to show that certain games will need much bigger SD-cards. And I think the PS4/XB1 isn't the same things since they're stationary and you can easily hook up an external HDD with 1TB to them... that doesn't quitre work with a HH