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

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Conina said:

JRPGfan said:

Conina said:

And if you order blu-ray discs by volume of at least 10000's (distribution of smaller volumes to retail doesn't make much sense) you can get a unit price around $0.75 for a 25 GB Blu-ray disc (multicolored printing included): http://www.quickturnduplication.com/html/blu-ray-duplication-prices.php

I think Nintendo could get even lower prices, and in the future these are going to become even cheaper.

They can offset that issue by just selling every physical game for a few more $ though.

Hurray for more expensive Nintendo games, the fans will love that!

And a great way to repair the relationship to third parties. Will multi-platform retail games cost "just a few more $" on NX than on PS4 + XBO? Or will the third parties price them the same and have less profit on the NX-version?

I don't understand this at all. Nintendo already uses carts for their handheld games, and said games retail for much less than console games (on disc.) The cost is miniscule with respect to the evaluation of the games by consumers, and consequently their prices. An extra dollar doesn't need to be part of the price of the product. Nintendo could make up for it by reducing costs elsewhere (such as repairs for disc-read errors.) As for third-parties, as long as they are not limited by storage space to a large degree, they will be fine with it. Again, the cost is something like an extra $.50 per game produced on a non-rewritable cart (they only need rewritable cards to protect against cheating like Nintendo does with Pokemon games.)