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Nintendo patent reveals game console without optical drive

Nintendo patent reveals game console without optical drive

Posted on August 24, 2015September 7, 2019 By Jarvis

A newly discovered patent from Nintendo reveals the gaming company may be planning to ditch the optical drive in its next console. Thankfully they aren’t planning to make a return to cartridges, like in the pre-GameCube days, but rather forego any kind of drive at all for inserting games. Instead, it seems Nintendo may have finally caught up to the thinking of Sony and Microsoft, and sees a future where games are downloaded over the internet and stored locally.
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