wraggster
August 23rd, 2015, 17:38
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/4120x2737+0+0/resize/1200x797!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/midas/c97b7dab7aab3c33f67721ba4ae9462f/202369876/d015f4e59b334bff8201dcde601f9443.jpeg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/22/nintendo-disc-free-console-patent/)
Nintendo has said little about what its future NX console (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-nx-console/) will involve (besidesnot running Android (http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/02/nintendo-android-rumor-squashed/)), but one of the company's recent US patent applications (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1099932)might be a hint as to what it's planning. The would-be patent, filed this February, talks about a "stationary game console" that uses only hard drives and external cards for storage -- the first time a TV-based Nintendo system would go without discs since the Nintendo 64 from two decades ago. As the company explains, the rise of broadband makes optical drives obsolete. Why include a disc reader when any game you want is just a download away?
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/22/nintendo-disc-free-console-patent/
Nintendo has said little about what its future NX console (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-nx-console/) will involve (besidesnot running Android (http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/02/nintendo-android-rumor-squashed/)), but one of the company's recent US patent applications (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1099932)might be a hint as to what it's planning. The would-be patent, filed this February, talks about a "stationary game console" that uses only hard drives and external cards for storage -- the first time a TV-based Nintendo system would go without discs since the Nintendo 64 from two decades ago. As the company explains, the rise of broadband makes optical drives obsolete. Why include a disc reader when any game you want is just a download away?
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/22/nintendo-disc-free-console-patent/