Fei-Hung said:
Ck1x said:
I understand the argument that you are trying to present, but you can't honestly think that Nintendo would be paying the prices for SD Memory cards as what you are finding on Amazon! The company would get great wholesale prices and the major difference between using a card storage medium now versus the N64 days is SD cards are a major standard now. There were so many different types of storage formats that nothing remotely to the size speed and price of current SD cards existed. So not even just making it exclusive to the SD card format, even if the decided to go with some kind of flash Rom it's far more advanced and cheaper than that of the N64.
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No one is saying Nintendo will pay retail, what is being argued is that one medium is naturally more expensive to produce than the other and not by a little bit but by a lot. The question is, why would Nintendo eat up into their own profits of they have a cheaper option.
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But what you aren't factoring in is how much money Nintendo can save and make buy developing games once for multiple devices. This could never happen with one being disc based and the other using some type of flash/Rom card format.
