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bonzobanana said:
Soundwave said:

You can get bulk 32GB cards for like $5, Nintendo probably could score them for far cheaper than that. 3DS is early 2000s technology, using that as a baseline of what's possible today is pointless. 

Not the same. The cards will be proprietory lower volume  ROM cards and not be mass market 32GB cards. New 3DS games are still coming out now.

They aren't going to release a tablet with 32GB memory that can't store a single downloadable game. The spec and screen resolution will seriously reduce code size compared to home consoles anyway.  So basically too expensive,  not required and doesn't work with the announced spec if true.

This is the same company that released the Wii U with 8GB and 32GB and the Wii with 512MB (lol). Nintendo don't give a fuck if you want to download big retail games you're going to need a large memory card. 

Nintendo's own games are small anyway, don't see that changing on NX regardless of what the format is. 32GB is nothing for 2017 and will only get cheaper as 2018, 19, etc. goes on but most Nintendo games will fit just fine on 4-16GB cards. 

Even as a propietary vendor (doesn't even have to be that propietary), Nintendo would be ordering in volumes of tens of millions at a time. The price is going to be cheap.  



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Dunban67 said:
Miyamotoo said:
Luckily we will have revile of NX sometime in next couple of weeks.

Do you  have some good info to make you  think that or is that your opinion

IMO if they don t reveal in September or early Oct they will be too close to the Christmas shopping season to reveal the NX

I always thought we will have revival in end of September or early October.



bonzobanana said:
Soundwave said:

You can get bulk 32GB cards for like $5, Nintendo probably could score them for far cheaper than that. 3DS is early 2000s technology, using that as a baseline of what's possible today is pointless. 

Not the same. The cards will be proprietory lower volume  ROM cards and not be mass market 32GB cards. New 3DS games are still coming out now.

They aren't going to release a tablet with 32GB memory that can't store a single downloadable game. The spec and screen resolution will seriously reduce code size compared to home consoles anyway.  So basically too expensive,  not required and doesn't work with the announced spec if true.

Chirping in here because I covered this topic on another thread, but Macronix, Nintendos propietory ROM manufactuer, announced a while ago that they'd start on a new (32nm) production process and would be able to deliver 32GB ROM carts at the price of a regular BD for Nintendo.

So it seems like 32GB as the new standart cart size is not only possible and comparatively cheap, but all but confirmed by the manufacturer itself.



SuperNova said:
bonzobanana said:

Not the same. The cards will be proprietory lower volume  ROM cards and not be mass market 32GB cards. New 3DS games are still coming out now.

They aren't going to release a tablet with 32GB memory that can't store a single downloadable game. The spec and screen resolution will seriously reduce code size compared to home consoles anyway.  So basically too expensive,  not required and doesn't work with the announced spec if true.

Chirping in here because I covered this topic on another thread, but Macronix, Nintendos propietory ROM manufactuer, announced a while ago that they'd start on a new (32nm) production process and would be able to deliver 32GB ROM carts at the price of a regular BD for Nintendo.

So it seems like 32GB as the new standart cart size is not only possible and comparatively cheap, but all but confirmed by the manufacturer itself.

Wow didn't know that, so 64gb from 3rd parties is definitely something that can happen, without being "n64 cart expensive".  



Miyamotoo said:
Dunban67 said:

Do you  have some good info to make you  think that or is that your opinion

IMO if they don t reveal in September or early Oct they will be too close to the Christmas shopping season to reveal the NX

I always thought we will have revival in end of September or early October.

makes sense to me



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Soundwave said:
bonzobanana said:

Not the same. The cards will be proprietory lower volume  ROM cards and not be mass market 32GB cards. New 3DS games are still coming out now.

They aren't going to release a tablet with 32GB memory that can't store a single downloadable game. The spec and screen resolution will seriously reduce code size compared to home consoles anyway.  So basically too expensive,  not required and doesn't work with the announced spec if true.

This is the same company that released the Wii U with 8GB and 32GB and the Wii with 512MB (lol). Nintendo don't give a fuck if you want to download big retail games you're going to need a large memory card. 

Nintendo's own games are small anyway, don't see that changing on NX regardless of what the format is. 32GB is nothing for 2017 and will only get cheaper as 2018, 19, etc. goes on but most Nintendo games will fit just fine on 4-16GB cards. 

Even as a propietary vendor (doesn't even have to be that propietary), Nintendo would be ordering in volumes of tens of millions at a time. The price is going to be cheap.  

Your first point I don't think is applicable because optical discs were cheap to make and downloadable games were not the norm for wii. The wii u for example  has ample storage for a few games in the 32GB model and even about 1 game on the 8gb model as most wii u games are so small. If you look at the macronix site you can see;

http://www.macronix.com/CachePages/en-us-Product-ROM-default.aspx#128Mb

They list roms in bits not bytes as you can see as capacity is listed in megabits 'Mb' not megabytes 'MB'.

You say 4-16GB I would say 256MB to 8GB at launch with 16 and 32GB cartridges coming much later if at all.

So when 32GB and 64GB carts were mentioned on leaks they mean bits not bytes which is 4GB and 8GB for maximum capacity at launch.

Again this is not really debatable its so obviously won't be 32GB or 64GB cartridges at launch. There is a history of Nintendo fanboys pretending somehow the cartridges were going to be much larger than they ever were. Partly because of a lack of understanding of the difference between bits and bytes but mainly the hype factor. As time passes reality hits in. Take the wii u for example at the beginning people were saying it had something like a 800/900 gflops gpu, then it was around 500/600 gflops then for a long time it was decided it was 352 gflops but now the final reality is 176 gflops. It seems you can never go too low when it comes to Nintendo specifications. 

The biggest android and ios games I think are 2-3GB in size so 4 or 8GB is going to be more than ample for the NX.

 



Just reveal this thing
With Sony and MS in the trash bin this is gaming's last hope
I expect them to go into the bin as well but hey there's 0.1% hope



spurgeonryan said:
but the Wii U is already slightly weaker.

No, Wii U is much, much weaker.



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