Just a simple poll to see what people's expectations for the hardware configuration of the NX will be.

When I say DRM cartridges I mean just cartridges that don't store the main game code only give you the right to download and run the game and can be resold on the secondhand market. You plug them into the console and it adds the rights to the console you can then remove and play the game but it has to be de-activated on your console before the cartridge can be resold so that only one system can run that single authorised game cartridge at any one time.

I doubt they are going to go the DRM route. I'm pretty sure they are aware of the backlash Microsoft received with the Xbox One announcement. Nintendo isn't exactly in the position to pull that shit.

The DRM cartridge can be easily resold. It's just a small cheap cartridge that is sold at retail and can be resold. There by keeping retailers happy. Once you get the cartridge home you insert it and it enables you to download and run the game and locks that cartridge code to the console. You can them remove the cartridge and store it back in its case. Not much different really to buying a retail game and having to download a huge patch before you can run the game even it if comes on disc.

Once you are bored of the game you can de-activate the cartridge from your console and sell it second-hand. Nintendo may make a small charge for de-activating or it may be free.

Its a way of keeping games at retail without the expense of an optical drive or manufacturing expensive large capacity cartridges.

Can people see the full name of the options. It's truncating on my screen?

Console with front loading optical. If it's fully digital, or has a retarded gamepad controller, like the Wii U, i'm out.

Front loading optical drive.

Console games are too big for regular SD cartridges (and they'll keep growing in size), and the ones that could hold them are a lot more expensive than optical discs.

And it's still too soon for a fully digital console.

Nintendo should not go the digital-only route because this will alienate retailers and undermine Nintendo's Amiibo strategy which is focused on getting gamers to come into stores.

I think that SD card-based releases are the best option for the NX. If the NX handheld/home console rumor ends up being true than the card slot should be on the handheld device and communicate wirelessly with the home console. A 64 GB SD card should not cost much more than $10.00 to manufacture and a 32GB SD card should be dirt cheap to produce. I don't see many games needing to go past 32GB (especially Nintendo 1st party games) but Nintendo can likely subsidize the cost of the 64 GB cards for third parties. The cost saved on an optical drive could be significant for the NX and I also think that this could easily make the NX the smallest and most compact of the consoles too.

I hope for console without optical drive and HDD, but with card reader, build up flash memory (64-128GB) and support for basically any kind of external memory.

I want a return to cartridges/SD cards for four reasons: less space, less moving parts, more durable storage medium and it would allow for the possibility of a unified library with a console and handheld NX model.

You can currently buy in store branded 64GB SD card for around $15, that means if you buy them in bulks of millions directly from chinese manufacturers, they would cost Nintendo less than $5. And what is also very important is that prices of flash memories are just keep falling like rock.

Going with SD cards instead dics woulb be great move for Nintendo.

http://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-nx-why-not-having-a-optical-drive-could-potentially-work-in-the-big-ns-favor#WD7BSdkGm6vKQm5v.99

would love to have a cart that has read and write space for patches and updates and saves. Save us all the hassle of bigger hdds etc..

Then you can play it anywhere on any console like the good old days. Even when a console dies or the online services are shutdown and patches gone, you don't need to rely on Nintendo to fix shit for u.