
The combined removal detection/ground pin is literally just a difference in how the system works and would require no modification to the card. Everything else is the same, they just changed the layout. They pretty much just got rid of the one pin that was never connected, reused one of the grounds as a removal detection pin, and repurposed the save chip select and dedicated removal detection pins as a 1.8v input and a return clock. The way they use the 3DS and Switch gamecard pins is mostly identical. If this was implemented on actual silicon, I can totally imagine it being used liberally in games and at speeds that would effectively multiply the speed of the cartridge by the compression ratio. Supposedly LZMA2 decompression was implemented on an FPGA and it was able to decompress things at roughly the same speed as a Core i7 but using only like 140mw of power. That way devs with larger games wouldn’t have to rely on using denser, more expensive, less mass-produced chips and can instead use carts with two smaller chips.Īnd of course, since I’m kind of broken record on this lol I would have made sure that there was some form of hardware decompression in the system so that lossless compression codecs in the LZ77 family would be accelerated.

I would have stuck with 3DS game cards so that the card is still small but big enough to house a 16GB chip and maybe an 8GB chip on the other side with them wired in a series. I would have gone with cartridges too if I was in charge of the 3DS and Wii U successors but I never would have used them on a system that doesn’t have things put in place to help work around using larger cartridges. They’re also significantly worse developers lolĬartridges aren’t as bulky, expensive, or limiting as they were in the past either but they do still cost way more per gigabyte than optical disks.

Square-Enix is run by completely different people so I doubt any grudges stuck around. Love the future, glad they bypassed you and your hoarding and made us gamers have fun again with a affordable hobby. You pay for the service and EVERYONE can ENJOY all the games without getting hold back by these losers in eBay pumping up prices.


Thank God companies do this, otherwise it would cost us 70 dollars for Xenoblade 1 on Wii, but now we have digital for 10 dollars and a 3DS version, destroying hoarders like you who wanna get rich and wanna be important how lucky you are with you hoarding and thieving.Īll games will be streamed and full digital library in the future like Steam and like Netflix. Your stupid obsession and hoarding stuff that’s lose value everyday since every game will be ported in the future and Just stop, people like you should buy 2 x the normal digital price because you leave bad toxic in the environment for You can only play the games because you have some plastic in your virgin cave ? Lame excuse for not buying a game, it’s old port you can play digital just like on PS4.
