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

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spemanig said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Eh? But there is a memory card slot? It could be cartridge based which is what it seems like and not "all digital"?

...Unless you and everyone else think it won't have an SD card slot at all and will only have a slot for cartridges. Because that patent only mentions one slot, does it not? Mmm.

It does have an external hard drive solution in the patent so it makes me wonder why do we even need an sd card anymore at all for storage

Edit: If you look at the patent as well... "First Basic Program" and "Second Basic Program" which are in the "Memory Card" and Not in the "External HDD" also goes into the console. So "First Basic Program" goes into Memory/Ram and "Second Basic Program" goes into the "Internal Hard Drive" which really suggests its a cartridge since the "First Basic Program" is most likely game files that gets loaded up into Ram and "Second Basic Program" is most likely any installation files or save data that gets written into the internal hard drive.