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

[se7en7thre3]

Soundwave said:

se7en7thre3 said:

This may be for a different topic, but since we're discussing the next console shipping w/o an optical player, how big (or small) do you folks think Nintendo will make NX home version?  I can envision Iwata presenting the console in the palm of his hand

 

Very small. Probably the smallest console Nintendo's ever made, and they've made some very small ones, the OG Wii and the redesigned Famicom are tiny. 

That said, I actually think there could be more than one home (console). There could be one made for Japan and what Nintendo deems the "family market" and one made for the tastes of higher end Western consumers. If NX is supposed to be one unified software ecosystem and the hardware is more tailored through different models to be able to appeal to very different markets and consumers, then I wouldn't be so quick to assume that there can only be one home model either. 

Yeah with the new unified sw approach, Nintendo can experiment with more HW types.  When Wii became a big hit, everyone said "if only it was strong enough to handle 3rd party games".  The audience was there but power wasn't.

I think for starters Nintendo will be conservative and if there is demand, maybe a year later, releae something that eclipses PS4 at the very least.