NX game console or Nintendo's first non-optical drive host

Tencent Digital Due to the poor market performance of the Wii U, Nintendo has shifted its focus to the development of a new generation of NX game consoles . At present, the outside world has very limited understanding of this game console (except that it will not use the Android system), but a patent application that has been exposed recently may indicate some ideas of Nintendo for NX.

Specifically, this patent application by Nintendo describes an "independent game console" that uses only hard drives and external memory cards as storage media, and this is the first drive in the 20 years since the launch of Nintendo 64. Device - assuming it does exist. Nintendo's explanation is that due to the increase in Internet bandwidth, optical drives have become unnecessary. If you want to play a game, you can download it to the device with just a few clicks. Why do you want to add it to the CD-ROM?

Of course, this patent application does not have any direct connection with the NX game console, and the latter does not necessarily have no optical drive. However, a game console without an optical drive is not an unreasonable concept, especially for a device that will not be officially released within a year or two. Although the current video game consoles are equipped with optical drives, this old technology is slowly being phased out. Not only is it slow, it also increases equipment costs, while making game upgrades more complicated. Abandoning this multimedia medium will allow Nintendo to keep its future at a consistently low price while embracing the future.