It definately makes sense for them to use Blu Ray. It's probably the cheapest way to get dense, higher speed media without resorting to flash.

I mentioned it several times in one of the other threads.  I'd really love to see them take that route. 

I'm looking from a different perspective.   No mechanical drive.  Mecahnical drives are the leading cause of all console errors in Nintendo home consoles since the introduction fo the GC.  Granted it is still fewer than other consoles.   By going back to cartrdiges you eliminate a huge error prone component.

Further still you gain the ability to read and write, much faster access speeds, faster transfer speeds, a quiter and cooler system, lower FEC and UL fees, etc....   Sounds like a decent trade off to me.  And if the ystem can do procedrual texturing, you won't need masssive capacity anyway.

We can look at the PS3 and X360's release period and compare them to to the power of 3 top of the line GPU's from 3-4 years prior.   PS3 wouldn't match the fill rate of 3 high end cards from 2002-2003.  Not even close.

As for me being a Nintendo fan, it's irrelevant.  I co-own a media network with 35,000 members (90% PS3 fans) and being media I speak with developers all the time.   And my statement was not an accusation which would be a suggestion that you inteionally did somethign wrong.  But merely an observation that still to this point, you are the only one I've spoken to that believes the jump from PS3/X360 to the next generation will be larger than the jump from PS2/Xbox to current generation.   You might want to talk with some publishers about how the feel about their budgets skyrocketing again.

What if they do resort to it?

People that hate Nintendo might not realise. But Nintendo will NEVER use another  gaming companies products or ideas. Nintendo sticks to their own stuff, they always have. Blu-Ray won't come close to being near any Nintendo product.

PS3 RSX GPU fillrate 4000 MP/s pixel 12000 MT/s texture Nvidia's most powerful GPU as of 1st of jan 2004 3800 MP/s 3800 MT/s

Flash would be awesome but they'd forgo b/c

Viper, I'm forced now to not take anything you say seriously again. You just don't know what your talking about and somehow showing off as an expert.

I think Blu-Ray is a must, if Nintendo wants to compete with XBox and Playstation

Not unless they have a legacy drive. Heck, they could even keep the controller and memory card GC slots, as they wouldn't add much to the system (and have their own uses).

adding something as expensive as an optical drive for the sole purpose of b/c makes little sense from a hardware manufacturing point of view... maybe if they sold it separately as an attachment, maybe... but I'm not holding my breath for flash just yet, as much as I'd love to see it happen.