Interesting Take on the Memory Card Slot for NX

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FunFan said:

Soundwave said:

I realize there are lots of young 'uns on this board that don't really know about game history prior to 2000 in many cases but 

Otherwise known as the TurboGrafx 16 in the US, ran the exact same games and they ran on a card format. You could take a PC Engine console game like Street Fighter II and play it on the portable PC Engine GT (portable). 

Fun fact: NEC and Nintendo were quite close, Nintendo actually considered making the PC Engine chipset their successor to the Famicom/NES at one point before nixing the idea and opting to build the SNES from scratch. 

The TurboExpress/PC Engine GT was a portable TurboGrafx 16 that came many years after the concole launched. Just Like the Sega Nomad is a portable Sega Genesis. Both products weren't offered from the start but, pretty much, when the consoles were about to die and in very limited quantities. The NX seems to offer both options from the begining or within a year from each other at most (my assumption is handheld first).

Not to take credit from these companies but making a limited handheld version of your soon to die console is not that big of a deal and anyone can do it. I don't think thats what the NX is. It's not even known if both, the NX handheld and console, will share the same exact components and will have the same performance level or if they will just share the OS across different hardware configurations. Games may run diferently depending on which device it is deployed. In other words, the NX seems to be more IPad/IPhone than TurboGrafx/TurboExpress or Genesis/Nomad. And there's a huge difference.

PS - Anyone here can do a 5 seconds google search and learn all this. You don't need to talk down to anyone.

But when it comes down to it what Nintendo is possibly going to do here is still a unique concept in its' potential implementation. It's doing it from day one and supporting it with great first party software that makes it a game changer.  None of the previous implementations of the idea are as exciting to me as the idea of nintendo doing it from day one and fully supporting it with games and current technological advances like cloud saves.