| Captain_Yuri said: Yea but technology has progressed a lot since then... Flash memory has become heck of a lot cheaper and its faster than optical media... The 3ds cartridges can hold up to 8gb and the got released back in 2011 so now, they should be able to increase the space but a lot while keeping the costs down. And while 64gb microsd cards do still cost a bit to buy, they are also full re-writable where as cartridges mostly aren't apart from the save data which will also bring the costs down. So I doubt the storage size or the cost the make will be an issue. And while I get where you are coming from, the patent suggests that it will have games in the memory card "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. Why would "First Basic Program" go into memory if it wasn't? Oh and I am aware it mentions "SD card" but its not like SD cards can't have games inside or be "read only" since they are flash memory which cartridges are... |
It's not remotely cheap enough to make a third party company say "we'll spend like $10+ on a cart for the NX version of a game that costed $0.10 for a CD on the PS4/XBO." The average next gen game is like 45GB. Those are the sizes you're looking at for something like this. There is no way Nintendo is convincing 3rd parties to pay that kind of money per game just to port their 8th gen games to the NX.
It sounds like it's just describing the standard functions of a memory card. You know, downloading something from the SD card to the system itself. If it was meant to read game data like a cartridge, the patent would have been far more explicite than that.
