Nintendo has a new slogan

[Cerveza mas fina]

Is this the only thing they released this year?

http://m.imgur.com/ijOQycU?r

[Tasty]

Zelda and Pokemon

[Sho Nuff]

Let's get excited for new corporate branding

[qq more]

There's No Play on the Wii U for 2016


RIP

[brob]

when's nintendo putting out that game freak horse racing solitaire game on ios? it looks fun

[Kara]

when's nintendo putting out that game freak horse racing solitaire game on ios? it looks fun

Perfect distraction at OTB. 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Really Nintendo? First you decided to name it the "Wii u" now this? "No play"? Might as well call it "no games".
If this is real all of Nintendo Marketing needs to be fired post haste.

[DCharlieJP]

They should have went with "yesterday's technology tomorrow!"

[tiesto]

There's No Play on the Wii U for 2016


RIP

There's that weird SMT / Fire Emblem / idol waifu game that I hear is pretty good

[chronovore]

All I saw was THERE'S NO PLAY

Sounds about right.

It's just missing punctuation. It is supposed to read:

THERE'S NO PLAY. LIKE IT.

[Cerveza mas fina]

like it or leave it

[Tasty]

Guys remember UPlay

[Tasty]

They should have went with "yesterday's technology tomorrow!"

HOLY SHIT DC's back

[qq more]

Guys remember UPlay

I forgot I downloaded that shit on my Wii U. I don't think I ever used it 

[D3RANG3D]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/nintendo-may-start-selling-computer-software/

 

[D3RANG3D]

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[benjipwns]

From the Further Reading:

WHY NINTENDO NX’S RUMORED SHIFT FROM DISCS TO CARTRIDGES IS ACTUALLY SMART
The company could make physical media relevant again.

concluding with:

A lot of "if"s have to add up for this theory to pan out, of course, but at the very least, third-party game producers have proven willing to shell out for proprietary media in the form of 3DS cartridges, and those third parties have Nintendo's eShop as a viable, no-cost-per-unit alternative no matter what media Nintendo decides on. So much remains to be seen about what shape and form Nintendo NX will take, but we see at least one opportunity for Nintendo to lead in the console space, not follow.

[Yulwei]

From the Further Reading:

WHY NINTENDO NX’S RUMORED SHIFT FROM DISCS TO CARTRIDGES IS ACTUALLY SMART
The company could make physical media relevant again.

concluding with:

A lot of "if"s have to add up for this theory to pan out, of course, but at the very least, third-party game producers have proven willing to shell out for proprietary media in the form of 3DS cartridges, and those third parties have Nintendo's eShop as a viable, no-cost-per-unit alternative no matter what media Nintendo decides on. So much remains to be seen about what shape and form Nintendo NX will take, but we see at least one opportunity for Nintendo to lead in the console space, not follow.

He says "The company could make physical media relevant again." but then fails to give any real reasons for why he thinks so.

Or does he actually believe potentially faster loading of textures/levels is the thing that's going to reverse the industry-wide trend towards digital?

[Great Rumbler]

I'd say that the NX is more likely to be all digital than it is to use cartridges, but this is Nintendo we're talking about...

[benjipwns]

If you're installing games or parts of them to the internal flash (assuming Nintendo doesn't include a hard drive) they aren't going to load substantially faster off a flash "cartridge" for anyone to give a shit, especially when the third-parties are already designing their game to stream with the optical drives of the Xbone and PS4 in mind. This isn't like the double speed CD-ROM of the PS1* vs. N64 here. Plus the other two consoles have hard drives to cache on. (And especially if the textures are one-fourth the size...I mean, a lot of Wii games didn't seem like they had any loading times vs. 360 comparatively.)

Remember when just installing to a HD broke Halo 3 or whatever it was because of the stream timings? And increased the load times in a bunch of other games.

It looks like a Flash ROM of 32GB costs around $2 per chip, that's surely more expensive than a disc.

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And both are more expensive than a code on a piece of paper in the box.

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[Kara]

Are there rules about statement of purpose for Japanese corporations? That amendment seems unnecessarily specific from an American perspective.

[benjipwns]

anonArs Ars Praetorian 13 days ago   Reader Fav
One of the cool things about cartridges back in the day is you could add additional hardware to them, such as the Super FX chip, to boost the console's performance without the need for external accessories or entire console upgrades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX

(I don't know if such a thing would still be possible, but it was cool back then).

Nintendo could put new technology in the cartridges, the console would never be underpowered and you wouldn't need to buy an "upgrade" or new console, just a new cartridge and already get next gen, next level experience.

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[Vizzys]

should be possible

the supercard dstwo for nds had its own cpu built into it
obviously it was an unofficial device but you cant do that kind of stuff with discs