Nintendo Supplementary Device Soon to be Granted?

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jason1637 said:

spemanig said:

It's still be paying to run them, but the price is cheaper than if they house everything themselves.

And the ceiling of potential for this is much higher than you're making it out to be. The more these things sell, the more power is available in this cloud network. As far as I am aware, that extra pool of power is indefinite. As long as developers have the time, money, and resources, to  make a game that powerful, with enough SCDs there'd be no other limits.

AKA, imagine a ludicrous future where the NX was attached to an expansion pack with 100 times the power. This patent allows for such a scenario to exist. They'd just need to sell A LOT of SCDs. Obviously this is an exaggeration used to illustrate a point.

Also, people who want the highest end graphics wouldn't have to pay for it at all. That's the point.

It would be pretty crazy if this is the last Nintendo console and every few years a new SCD is released so the platform is in par with the competition. 

I could see that working.  And the amount of Nintendo coins (or whatever Nintendo compensates users for letting their SCD be used in the cloud) that could be earned could rise or fall depending on which generation of the SCD you have (as they'd keep on upgrading it over the years to keep up with the competition).  Like if you have a gen3 SCD, you'd get 3 Nintendo coins per hour of use, 2 for a gen2 SCD and 1 for a gen1.  And then as time goes on, older models could be completely phased out and no longer accepted into the Nintendo cloud.  It would essentially keep Nintendo users in the Nintendo ecosystem by not having them continusously have to start their library from scratch each gen and Nintendo would just have to worry about making games.