NX To Use ROMs Rather than Optical Discs?

[JRPGfan]

malistix1985 said:
There are downsides to this. Mostly the fact that Nintendo in the past made cardridges and asked outrages prices to developers, which wouldn't be smart.

Also current gen consoles use Blue Ray Discs and all they really do is install the data, they don't play them from the discs so there would be no real performance gain from the cardridges, which is a problem

I meen if they make the cardridges faster than a 5400RPM harddisk, how would people be able to download the games from the store... I don't see this idea working out to well for third party support.

It could obviously work if the main focus is the handheld device

When has nintendo ever cared about 3rd party worries?

Nintendo just wants to sell nintendo software.

Its what sets them part from the other 2, they see themselves as a software company, not a hardware one.

 

The benefit would be you could play games without needing to install them, right off the cartridge.

No more install times = win.

You can ship your console, with a small cheap hardisk, reduceing the system costs.

Because most will be playing games from cartridges.