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Originally posted by: ActorJ
im still seeing conflicting reports. it seems there is now consensus that this is a demo, but still disagreement about whether or not any single player levels will be included. hmm.
i am impressed. the fact that it is cost effective to release a demo on a memory card bodes very well for the future. this stacked memory technology must be very cheap indeed....
Yea, the technology is indeed compelling.
But one thing that sorta made me go "meh"
Reggie in the teleconference call held Tuesday the 21st of Sept mentioned that manufacturing times from the current main plants in Asia would be roughly equivalent to GBA games, at least at first: that is, 4-6 weeks.
For anyone who looked it up, one of the benefits of this new technology is supposedly field programmability...in other words ultimately cutting down on the manufacturing time (field programmability roughly means being able to stockpile blank data cards for writing games onto at any time).
However, perhaps the quoted manufacturing period is merely a reflection of the plant's far off location. Reggie did also mention plants being built perhaps in the US which would bring down those overhead times.
Another thing about the game cards (this is the term Nintendo was using in their press release): every one of em will have Save RAM, eliminating the cheaper publishers desire to use password systems. Nintendo is making this standard now. A small thing, but conveneint nontheless. Passwords do get annoying when you are forced to use them...
Hm, cheaper media indeed...