Nintendo: return cartridges for NX console? – ZDNet France

Still very mysterious, the NX Nintendo will be launched globally in March 2017, accompanied by a licensed weight, namely a new Zelda. This is the only official information on the new Japanese home console

The Wall Street Journal thinks his side that the machine will revive a format which was thought to forget. Cartridge. “Nintendo plans to adopt the format cartridge for its next-generation game consoles, according to people familiar with the companies,” it said. The daily also quotes Atsushi Osanai, a former employee of Nintendo Harvard researcher who became stressed that the cartridge “is undoubtedly the best format today to distribute games in a physical way.”

If the cartridge has been shelved, it is because optical discs offer far more storage capacity but now with flash memory technologies, the cartridge can be used again as a support set. especially it has other qualities: the lack of load times, reliability (we know the fragility of optical discs), and a much greater security than Blu-ray. The cartridge can thus greatly reduce the adverse effects of piracy

Nintendo remains discreet on this new product. “This is a new concept of video game under development,” said the group without giving further details. In short, the mystery remains and clues are slim.

“Let me confirm that Nintendo is currently developing a new platform game dedicated with a new concept. It is named NX. “code, launched the late Satoru Iwata, head of the Japanese firm.

After the rumors (denied) use of Android, Tatsumi Kimishima, the new boss of the Kyoto firm , returned last December on the project through an interview with Time. Again, no concrete evidence has been revealed but the p-dg has wanted clear. NX will rupture console

This is first not to repeat errors of the Wii U. “the Wii has sold so much and touched an audience so broad that it would not be easy to convince them to ‘abandon’ to go to the Wii U,” argues the p -DG, thus recognizing that the console name was poorly chosen, consumers thinking it was an evolution of the Wii and not a new console.

“I can ensure that the NX is not the new version of the Wii or Wii U. it’s a unique and different machine. We are moving away from these consoles to design something that will attract our consumers, “he said . Rumors and evoke a machine equally at home in the home that mobility. And a higher power for current machines (PS4 and Xbox One).

Tatsumi Kimishima will continue the cultural revolution of Mario’s father. It will be recalled that the company has reached an important milestone by allowing a third party publisher to bear licenses for smartphones, a historic first but it is for Nintendo to remain in the market today crushed by Sony and Microsoft. For observers, the NX could also be trying the last chance to Nintendo in the home console market.