19th April 2011, 1:58 PM
Nintendo CAN do that, but I don't think they should. High capacity normal DVDs are doing well enough right now. There's still games that sit comfortably in the 5 GB range. If they can reduce the costs of solid state enough, I'd actually advocate returning to cartridges, something like 16 GB being standard size. As I said though, costs would need to be reduced a bit, but Nintendo can make it happen (for one, they wouldn't need to be rewritable except for a small portion for saved data). At best, they could just license Bluray. Why reinvent the wheel? It's much cheaper just to pay the royalties and use what's already there.
That's all assuming the next generation isn't all just online stores anyway, in which case all Nintendo needs to do is provide large capacity storage built into the "Wii 2".
That's all assuming the next generation isn't all just online stores anyway, in which case all Nintendo needs to do is provide large capacity storage built into the "Wii 2".
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