| Captain_Yuri said: 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 |
The Wii U has an external hard drive solution. Likely just for the Wii/3DS games that'll be playable on the NX.
To answer your last question, though, we don't know. But you have to take a really hard look at what you're suggesting by thinking that Nintendo would put 3rd party developers through the same N64 garbage that made Square leave. You know, the Square that is planning on releasing DQX on the NX.
I don't think the patent shows anything other than a typical SD card slot. I don't think that Nintendo is going to suddenly think its a good idea to go back to cartridges, which are more expensive than disks, after over 15 years of using CDs on consoles. And I don't think that's an absurd thing to think. I think that it's far more likely that they're doing the obvious move of going all digital, like literally every other form of media has done. Books did it. Movies did it. Music did it. Gaming has already done it on PC. Nintendo is doing it now on consoles. I wasn't sure if Nintendo was ballsy enough to do it for consoles yet. I'm 100% sure they are now.
