RETROGAMING, reviving old franchises, etc. : Gamers love to return to their first love video play and the situation should not be arranged. Proust’s madeleine true geeks, the good old game cartridge could return soon. According to Wall Street Journal , the next game console designed by Nintendo – dubbed NSX – should indeed work with cartridges and leave the disc format.
“Nintendo plans to adopt the format cartridge for its next-generation game consoles, according to people familiar with the companies,” the business daily. This track is more likely that the newspaper also quotes a former employee of Nintendo became a research associate at Harvard University: the cartridge “is undoubtedly the best format today to distribute games in a physical way (and not online, ed) “, said Atsushi Osanai.
Why return to cartridge format? The disc format is taxed at the turn of the 2000s for a very simple reason : its storage capacity was greater than that of the cartridges. And the arrival of Blu-ray technology did not help the situation. But what was true yesterday is no longer necessarily today. With advances in the semiconductor industry, the cartridges again become competitive in more ways than one.
There are of course the ability to store data for new cartridges, much higher, but also their speed: using the flash memory, games cartridges to load much faster than on the console to the disc format. The format cartridge also helps protect the games, where the slightest scratch can render an unreadable disk. But it is anything but trivial for Nintendo, which seeks a wider audience that Sony and Microsoft, and so many children not always very careful with their games.
Finally, there are more industrial reasons: not only the cartridge format is harder to hack, but its size, smaller than a disc, reduces the size of the drive and therefore the console. A decisive advantage in the area of portable consoles that Nintendo will try to wake up with the NSX, which should be a hybrid console.
By the way, that the NSX knows? Nintendo has no plans to clarify its intentions before the end of the year, although some information could be released in mid-September. The concept of the NSX, announced for March 2017, however, begins to take shape. In an interview granted late 2015 Time magazine, the CEO of Nintendo assured that “it will (it) a different and clearly new game experience. (…) I can assure you that we do not make the new version of Wii or Wii U. It will be something unique and different. “
one hypothesis is nevertheless favored, based on a screenshot that circulated on social networks late January. This photograph shows a document of the firm GFK – working with Nintendo – with a list of specifications rather accurate. too precise to be authentic? There is certainly a question of a machine operating in two modes: as a traditional game console, but also as a portable console. Clearly, a player can start a game on its home console, and then continue out of home. The question is how: with a specific device or with the handle of the home console, which would be equipped with a screen and function as a portable console
A track not so far fetched when? Nintendo knows that now invests the mobile phone market, as shown by the examples Pokemon Go and Miitomo.
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