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So Nintendo might have been on to something back then?
Yes, irony indeed.
Can the Carts get DLC the way discs do? I know it's probably a dumb question, but I'm curious.
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I think 3DS carts are cheap. If they are like that it wouldn't be that expensive and they still hold a lot of data.
3DS carts I think have a limit of 8 GB which is basically the same as a DVD. But I think they were working on having 32 GB which is more than the Wii U proprietary discs.
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre AdventureI could have sworn it was said that Carts were cheaper than CD's somewhere.
That's why Nintendo went with them for the N64.
One Strip! One Strip!They don't have as much memory though. Or at least, they didn't at the time.
And that was the generation companies discovered FM Vs.
...I mean, FFVII still needed 3 discs.
edited 21st Aug '15 8:50:47 PM by unnoun
The PSP did decently enough. Let's be honest, when your competition is the juggernaut that was the Nintendo DS, any kind of performance will look like a failure in comparison.
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Nintendo went with them on the N64 because Disc had terrible load times and Nintendo prefers that their games have barely any loading times. Cartridges have no moving parts so games load quicker.
edited 21st Aug '15 8:53:16 PM by Halberdier17
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre AdventureSo in other words, now might be a viable time to return to Cartridges, cause they can do as much as CD's can now.
Considering Nintendo did pull some good stunts with Carts back in the N64 days, this'll be interesting I think.
I know they've said they have no interest in competing with the processing power of the other systems, but maybe they still have plans on that front anyway.
One Strip! One Strip!You know, carts have the benefit of that you can write the data on them.
Take any 3DS game you have, shove it into someone elses 3DS, it still has your original save file instead of not.
So if there is one thing carts have over discs, it's that the console can write data on them without "hacking" into the game.
Though that's a really minor thing, since save game files are tiny anyway and would barely take up system memory. Though I suppose that bigger carts could install DLC and updates directly to the cart instead of the system.
Though depedning on the carts design, they wouldn't get as easily scratched as disks do, so that's a plus?
Still not sure which would end up being more cost effective. Or how big they plan to make the carts.
If some flash-drive based carts would prove faster, bigger and stronger too! and more cost effective than DVD and Blu Ray, then other companies might even adapt the model.
I mean, Blu Ray wants to hype it's "amazing visual quality" but last I checked, you can buy the latest PS 4 games digitally off the PSN store. And I don't think those are inferioir in visual quality because they are a digital download and not on a fancily named disc.
edited 21st Aug '15 9:12:23 PM by Geist-Fox
How much money will they save using carts?
If Carts can do all the stuff Discs can do now, then Nintendo might be able to do more with less.
I'm wondering how this might go now.
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So basically carts are better than discs in terms of space now? Oh the Irony.
edited 21st Aug '15 7:53:42 PM by Karxrida