The golden age of gaming might be back. According to rumours, Nintendo is possibly ordering a large number of ROM chips from Chinese supplier Macronix — which has been supplying the cartridges for 3DS games. According to Marconix:
“Macronix’s ROM chips are usually supplied to videogame console maker, Nintendo. Although the sales is in off season during the first quarter, the revenue is similar compared with the same period last year. Wu Miin suggested that as Nintendo had just announced it will release a new generation console in March next year, and the console will be launched at the same time in Japan, America and Europe, so ROM’s sales is expected to increase in the latter half of this year, and it will have a large growth potential.”
The company has also been testing high-capacity cartridges with 32GB capacity as well, feeding further speculation that Nintendo might be using them for their games. The advantage of cartridges is that the read speed is significantly faster than that of optical discs.
Whether this is true remains to be seen, but the nostalgia is high with this one.
Source: ScreenCritics
