What will Nintendo Do After Wii?

[flamepanther]

Q: What will Nintendo Do After Wii?"

A: Count money

[Flake]

I hope they go back to using cartridges again. Is it possible to create the Wii's current graphics on a cart? It seems plausible if you look at what the 3DS can do.

Not a chance. Too expensive.

Besides, it's one thing to admit that piracy is inevitable. Doing carts again would be like Nintendo raising damn jolly roger themselves.

[Hobie-wan]

I hope they go back to using cartridges again. Is it possible to create the Wii's current graphics on a cart? It seems plausible if you look at what the 3DS can do.

Not gonna happen.

Single layer DVD at 4.5GB's: .3cents to manufacture

Carts of a comparable size on ultra expensive MASK ROM chips: $20-$30 or more.

The chips in DS carts don't cost neat that much when a brand new budget DS game might cost $20. Gigs of info can obviously fit on a tiny chip these days too. But yeah, carts probably won't come back.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I hope they go back to using cartridges again. Is it possible to create the Wii's current graphics on a cart? It seems plausible if you look at what the 3DS can do.

Not gonna happen.

Single layer DVD at 4.5GB's: .3cents to manufacture

Carts of a comparable size on ultra expensive MASK ROM chips: $20-$30 or more.

The chips in DS carts don't cost neat that much when a brand new budget DS game might cost $20. Gigs of info can obviously fit on a tiny chip these days too. But yeah, carts probably won't come back.

The Biggest DS cart currently made is the 1gigabit cart.

1gigabit = 256mb.

There's no way they would be able to make a mask rom that big for under the prices I mentioned.

[flamepanther]

The Biggest DS cart currently made is the 1gigabit cart.

If by "currently" you mean 2007? Sands of Destruction is on a 2Gb cart, and was released in Japan in 2008. The upcoming Ni no Kuni will be using a 4Gb cart.

It's still not nearly enough space for a modern console game. It's not gonna happen.

[Opa Opa]

But yeah, carts probably won't come back.

Its nice to dream though.

Do you think Nintendo will stay with carts on their handhelds for a while?

[flamepanther]

Do you think Nintendo will stay with carts on their handhelds for a while?

Very likely. Any storage medium that involves moving parts tends to be problematic for handheld devices.

[yosh]

Q: What will Nintendo Do After Wii?"

A: Count money

[lisalover1]

The Biggest DS cart currently made is the 1gigabit cart.

If by "currently" you mean 2007? Sands of Destruction is on a 2Gb cart, and was released in Japan in 2008. The upcoming Ni no Kuni will be using a 4Gb cart.

It's still not nearly enough space for a modern console game. It's not gonna happen.

I'm pretty sure a 4 Gigabit DS cartridge has already been used; Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days was about 500 MB.

[flamepanther]

I'm pretty sure a 4 Gigabit DS cartridge has already been used; Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days was about 500 MB.

You're probably right. I just went with the first 4Gb cart Google brought up for me. Leave it to Square to eat up excessively large amounts of storage space on any platform.