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

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spemanig said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Well they have been doing it for the 3ds which is 8gb... 64gb microsd cards have gone down to $20 for consumers...

http://www.amazon.com/SCT-MicroSD-Ultimate-MicroSDXC-M-F64-RT-550/dp/B00JAO8MMU/ref=sr_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1440218194&sr=1-9&keywords=64gb+micro+sd&refinements=p_36%3A-2000

There is no way that companies are paying $10 to make a 64gb SD card. It will be a lot less, specially if it's read only for the most part...

And also if it is just a standard "SD card" then it wouldn't say: "such as an SD memory card" cause why would it say "Such as an SD memory card" if it is an SD memory card? And the patent drawing would also specifically say "SD card" and not "Memory Card." Cause it sounds like it is saying that it is "like an SD memory card" but it is not or they are supporting multiple types of cards...

...No it won't be "a lot less." Dude, a BR disk of a similar size is like $2 to consumers. It's 10x more. No third party in their right mind will be okay with paying 10x more to port their game to the NX.

None of the patents have ever called the SD Card slot an SD card slot. They are all called memory cards on them.

And the types of discs you are talking about are Writable Once where as that microsd card is re-writable. I am not saying that it costs as less but it certainly doesn't cost $10 per for 64gb Read Only flash memory when 64gb is avaliable for $20 for consumers + rewritable...

Well then they wouldn't say "Like an sd card" then and they would specifically say "Sd card" in the discription