Nintendo Patent Highlights Console with no CD Disc Drive

By Jorge Ba-oh 22.08.2015 1

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A patent has surfaced that details a Nintendo console that doesn't have a disc drive.

The patent, which was filed on 10th February 2015 and spotted today by the folk at NeoGAF, details a concept that involves a "Stationary Game Apparatus, Game Apparatus, Game System, Recording Medium and Speed Control Method."

The main points of interest for this particular patent are that it involves a "controller with a display screen" as well as the lack of an optical disc drive for reading data from CDs.

Fans are currently speculating whether the patent is linked to the company's forthcoming NX platform, or whether this could simply be a stripped down Wii U that's designed for those who would play digital titles only - i.e. games downloaded from the eShop.

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Nintendo could well be planning a budget Wii U release, particularly before it stumbles about on a zimmerframe.

Do you think the patent is for the NX or for a budget Wii U hardware revision?

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The so called memory card slot says it must have a first basic program on it, like a boot check program for anti piracy, that would then allow the second basic program (the game) to run. This setup makes me think of the 10NES anti piracy check inside NES cartridges, but I imagine much more elaborate, like here the first program might help decrypt the second one, the decryption being different for each game, meaning if one gets cracked, all the others are still safe, which if I recall is sort of, if not exactly how 3DS cartridges make things work. Could be a console that runs games off memory card sized cartridges? Back to basics for Nintendo Smilie? I doubt it due to manufacturing costs but that's what the diagram evokes to me.

EDIT: Also, the way I see the Game Program being on the internal HDD at all times makes me believe that part of the game program (think the main .exe if you were on a Windows PC) would always remain on the system and never leave it, whereas only data would be stored on an external medium (or internal if no external is found).

( Edited 22.08.2015 10:18 by RudyC3 )

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