4th March 2003, 3:22 PM
Um, most of what you listed WAS released.
The FAMICOM disk system was certainly released, and it's the reason why we have Zelda, Lost Levels, Metroid, and Kid Icarus (though bringing them here, the save feature was lost in two of them).
64DD WAS a hard drive, removable. Released, failed, yes not very well thought out.
SNES CD is in a different catagory, it actually wasn't released, well up until the PS1. As I said before, Nintendo DESERVES whatever happens to them because of Sony thanks to Nintendo's really selfish treating of Sony like a napkin back then.
Anyway, the SD card is something certainly like those. However, you could also call the Hard Drive on the PS2 and the PS2 online adapter the same thing, add-ons made later, which certainly aren't selling as well as they could had they been built in from the start (heck, the PS2 HD is still not out in the US yet). However, that doesnt' mean I wouldn't like to see it out. I already said why it could be better than a hard drive. It will allow outside data to be used in certain GCN games designed to use such outside data. They also have all the space they really need. I've yet to approach a single gig on my XBox HD, so I'm sure a 2-10 gig SD card would be enough (of course, those size cards are quite expensive) and of course cards are faster than HDs.
However, as I just subnoted, that's pretty expensive when you get to certain sizes. I think built in HDs in the next system would be best.
The FAMICOM disk system was certainly released, and it's the reason why we have Zelda, Lost Levels, Metroid, and Kid Icarus (though bringing them here, the save feature was lost in two of them).
64DD WAS a hard drive, removable. Released, failed, yes not very well thought out.
SNES CD is in a different catagory, it actually wasn't released, well up until the PS1. As I said before, Nintendo DESERVES whatever happens to them because of Sony thanks to Nintendo's really selfish treating of Sony like a napkin back then.
Anyway, the SD card is something certainly like those. However, you could also call the Hard Drive on the PS2 and the PS2 online adapter the same thing, add-ons made later, which certainly aren't selling as well as they could had they been built in from the start (heck, the PS2 HD is still not out in the US yet). However, that doesnt' mean I wouldn't like to see it out. I already said why it could be better than a hard drive. It will allow outside data to be used in certain GCN games designed to use such outside data. They also have all the space they really need. I've yet to approach a single gig on my XBox HD, so I'm sure a 2-10 gig SD card would be enough (of course, those size cards are quite expensive) and of course cards are faster than HDs.
However, as I just subnoted, that's pretty expensive when you get to certain sizes. I think built in HDs in the next system would be best.
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