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

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spemanig said:

Wyrdness said:

Read the patent on GAF it describes a game being read off the card.

 

Tamron said:
The basic program slot is for sabegame encryption, note how it only says game program on the HDD and not the memory card slot, that rules out carts entirely.
Digital console folks.

Nope doesn't disprove anything as that just says the HDD can only be used for game data nothing else non gaming and has little bearing on the memory cards.

[0028] The card slot 19 of the game apparatus 1 may receive or discharge the memory card 7 such as an SD memory card. The card slot 19 can read or write data from/to the attached memory card 7. In the present example embodiment, the game apparatus 1 is able to read out the first basic program 24 or the second basic program stored in the memory card 7 through the card slot 19, and to store the read-out program in the first memory 11 or the internal HDD 13. This can realize, for example, version upgrade of the first basic program 24 and the second basic program 25. It is to be noted that the version upgrade of a program may be realized by downloading a program from the server apparatus 9 through the communication unit 15.

 

Explain why the program on the SD card here would need upgrading through the net, also it highlights what ever is being read on the memory card as being moved through the RAM or being stored on the HDD something a save file would not require and save files would certainly not require upgrades through online. What this means is that the memory card is also format for the games and the console gives players the choice of installing.

Basic program is essentially game data or apps meaning the memory cards will not be strictly limited to game data.