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

[Wyrdness]

jason1637 said:

Wyrdness said:

The Patent doesn't say anything about downloading to the SD card only reading from it as said in that section here the device can read from it and store the data.

Ahh ok. But how hard would this make it to port 3rd party games since its not blu ray. I Hope Nintendo does not make the same mistake this gen and last gen with third parties.

It'd be easier in fact as the game data is stored on the HDD or the interal memory to be read when played, the actual format is literally just to hold data that will be stored internally. Solid state like formats are also read much faster then opticals like discs.