Report – No hard drive for Project Cafe, has 8GB of Flash Memory

That’s quite a wii bit of space.

@1 LOL! At least more than Wii, amirite?

Would have rather had a 500G HDD. I guess time will tell all.

hard drive sold seperately…?

Son of a

The Third party publishers will miss the possibility of selling DLC

Nice information here so the disc use will have 25 gb, what format is this? well we dont going to need to save games on the consoles thats nice, and the other SD support, well i dont mind that it has 8GB flash based memory, i dont mind this at all, is ok in my book SD are cheap even for large capacity.

@6

Your right, but I for one will not miss one bit the possibility to have to buy DLC.

Naw, they’ll just have you enter your friendcode with the disc in after verifing your purchase then the dlc on the disc will be enabled. <.<

Is this thing suppose to sport bluray disc? I could under stand the 8gb of flash. Kinda verified my theory to why some games need the install

*facepalm*
Oh Nintendo….

@Steph true

just rumour, i wouldn’t buy anything yet

lol good point Lex.

From kotaku:
“I’ve heard mixed things about whether Nintendo will cap their machine’s graphical resolution at 1080i or 1080p”

Mmmmm…

Crap….. this means the odds of an online Nintendo Store iz 0%.
I don’t see backward compatability working without an online store
ofcourse unless they rerelease all gamecube gamez.. maybe something like the remastered in HD ps2 gamez!!!!

Maybe it will have some way of downloading dlc to the disc there will be plenty room on disc anyway

@16.. you mean like re-writable discz??? thizz soundz dangerous man!!!

Actually that is fantastic. Hard drive for console is a stupid idea to begin with. Yeah, it’s easy to install game on the hard drive but thats it.

Without HDD

less lags and faster loading in multiplayer. The only thing that i’m sceptical is about Nintendo’s store.
If they are going to use cloud store then everything here is perfect.

Thats a thought Erth. If Nintendo rolled out some sort of low fee subscript based cloud gaming for retro titles … that would ease the need for HDD and a store with downloads. However this is Nintendo we are talking about so I doubt they will be onboard with something like streaming games.

but it would be great if they suprised us.

For a company that are so forward-thinking in terms of controllers, they’re far behind when it comes to so many other parts…

Will this be the last Nintendo console?

I don’t get why they don’t release an extremely powerful console with an Xbox Live type subscription service.

Stardog, just my two cents, but I think we could be looking at the last round of consoles from everyone. This up and coming gen could be the last. I think streaming(cloud) and digital downloads could well push the PC into the forefront of gaming.

I just mean that PC could well be the lead platform, while games are streamed via a service like Onlive/Giaka to dedicated consoles. It will prolly make a netbook, cell phone, handheld, modem about all the console your gonna need. If it has broadband, wireless controler/mouse/KB, and and can video out to your TV, your gonna be set.

How long? No idea. But this next gen prolly won’t start in ernest till MS/Sony launch new systems. And thats prolly 2-3years from now. Add to that a 5-8year life cycle, and we could be talking about all that cloud stuff. Or using it.

Rumors rumors rumors…

E3 can’t come soon enough.

sony have no ps4 ever

ps3 and psn ruin sony. no money payed all to fraud

^WTF DOES THAT SAY???

^
Sega eat cheetoes. No more Sony cause GeoFatz sit on Micorshat next for lose yes gaming hack win. And

means sony goes broke. no money=no ps4

new network cost huge. lost customers cost huge. fraud cost huge.sony is dead but no worry that is good

What is it with Nintendo and storage devices? First sticking to cartridges for decades and now rumors of no hard-drive even now that lack of it in some 360 models is causing lots of troubles.

@sony_sucks dude your NickName is offensive yet LoOoOoOoOL i’m here crackin’ LOL ^________^

be careful though

@26
Dey see me trollinn……

Anyway, No hard drive is a joke imo.
People want more from their consoles nowadays.
if they have the choice from 3 shiny machines, 1 just plays games while the other 2 are real media centres that can do much more, which will they choose?

Unless Nintendo sells it for crazy cheap, I hav 10 dorra.

@5
…..bitch

This is stupid. Hopefully thats the basic model like the Xbox slim

Oldergamer iam scared of cloud gaming myself, for once i do like consoles and games on physical media call me an old gamer, not pun intended, but we need at least two things rights in order to this be a reality and a real project, first security: if something did teach us the PSN outage was that there is not security in gaming, theres not network save, therefore how about cloud gaming, what a hacker can do with the games i did pruchase if i do not have them on my disc tray, they can stold them and make believe the system i didnt buy it so i will end up loosing all my games, i dont know now iam more concern about this, more than ever before.
Secondly downloading speeds, well the last time i did dowloaded a game was DC online on PS3 and that thing took almost 2 days and if i recall correctly the game is about 15 gb so that means that a game like uncharted or resistance will take about maybe 5 days, and if i buy six games per month i will spend the moth dowloading rather than playing the games, therefore the speed conections should vastly improve in the years to come.

In the end i hope this isnt the future i hope consoles keep coming and physical disc too, but thats my humble opinion

@30 [spiderLaw] LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL ROFL!!!!!!! .. you just made my day

@32
Really…i didnt know it was that funny….YAY ME!

I guess downloadable content is not what Nintendo care about!

Fight the status quo! Run against the wind! Other things!

@spider it wasn’t.lol but his elongated lol broke into the brink banner that was worth a chuckle.

Alos, is that a cup of hot triforce in the pic? Or is that homemade triforce pie? I could really go for a hot slice of POWER! Wisdom tends to fill me up and courage makes me gasey

It must have a really fast drive if it uses 25GB discs with no install. I mean, i dont see why the source apparently says that it wont need to install anything because of the disc size. The PS3 goes up to 50GB, and whilst some games use nearly all the space dont need installs, its in no way a guarantee, which is what the source here seems to be insinuating.

Well, it’s probably based on the same type of discs they made for the Wii as they use their own format. The PS3 is a bit unique in the disc read problem. The next playstation console will use BD no doubt but I bet they would have a much, much faster drive and will be able to do away with installs. Though to be honest, I like the option to install anyway.

@25
LOL, thanks for clarifying that!

@37
I think that the source was being vague purposely.

“some games that use nearly all the space dont need installs”

Playstation slave, thats because 99% of games that use 50 GB of space are used for just CUT SCENES.

^ Oh fuck off you little cunt. Your trolling amuses no one anymore.

guyz seriously these commentz are like standup comedy wow.. I’m starting to fall in love with VG247 @42

@42, so i’m a cunt now? Wow…

If you don’t believe me, use “thepiratebay” and check out the games.

@sony_sucks I love your contributions, keep ‘em coming.

In my head, I hear them in this voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2Z23SAFVA

@44
You always have been, seriously, ask anyone.

@44 what iz it like being a cunt??

@43
what did you smoke today buddy

@47, it’s like .. Some special transformation i don’t know ahahaha.

@Gekidami, dissapointed to know the truth about the space Sony’s first party studios use for Blu Ray? Gosh.

@49, dude you da man.. a cuntless one