A lot of Nintendo cartridges for sale in Portland in 2014. – SIPANY / SIPA

The rumored for some time, and it seems to materialize. NX for its next console, Nintendo would become a size that was thought extinct: the cartridge says Wall Street Journal , citing people “familiar with the matter”

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The builder had abandoned the cartridge to its home console after Nintendo 64 (released in 1996) in favor of a kind mini-DVD for the GameCube (2001) and a DVD equivalent for Wii (2006) and the Blu-ray to Wii U (2012). But this time, “industry watchers” think that this medium is “a reasonable choice” for NX Nintendo as the company Kyoto “targets a wider audience than Sony or Microsoft.”

the format, thoroughly snubbed by the competition – the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one uses the Blu-ray – this indeed some advantages: the strength of a hand, giving it a better chance of survival than a CD between indelicate hands or smeared with butter and jam. Then the cost: thanks to intense competition between manufacturers such as Toshiba and Samsung, the support has suffered a sharp decline in prices. Finally, an argument that no doubt attracted Nintendo, which continues to bum his games on all media: the cartridge is much harder to hack

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In the meantime more information, presumably at the Tokyo Game Show in mid-September one can speculate that this new console, due out in March 2017 and offer a compromise between handheld and lounge, will also overcome the media by downloading the games.

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