Nintendo Files Patent For a Console Without the Optical Disk (But has a Card Slot)

[Soundwave]

Wyrdness said:

Soundwave said:

It's kind of ambigious, it sounds like it could just be a slot for SD Cards flat out. If it was for game cards specifically, I would think that would've been more clearly stated. That's the only thing that makes me go "hmmm". 

Except why would data on an SD card be updated by an online connection if not a game, read what's described the device is clearly reading a game off it that can also be installed.

The games literally coming on SD Cards doesn't make sense either though. Maybe it is digital only, but with the caveat that if you for whatever reason have a crappy internet connection, you can maybe take an SD Card to the store and download the game onto an SD Card via like a kiosk and then take it home for install? 

That kinda seems to be what the patent is hinting at.