Author Topic: Nintendo to release 40gb hard drive for gcn (Read 10565 times)

MagicToenail · « **on:** October 16, 2003, 10:47:54 AM »

i dont know how accurate this is, but i just read on gamecube cafe that nintendo plans on making this announcement soon. I for one wish that it could be true, im sick of buying so many memory cards. Maybe PGC will come up with an answer shortly, probabaly a rumor though.

Berny · « **Reply #1 on:** October 16, 2003, 10:52:05 AM »

Ooo...hey would this by any chance be planned for the other connectormabob on the bottom of the cube? Sounds cool. They will get ripped apart though for "copying" M$...

jarob · « **Reply #2 on:** October 16, 2003, 10:57:03 AM »

This sounds interesting. But what games announced will use it? Maybe N has a few secret games on tap.

MagicToenail · « **Reply #3 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:02:12 AM »

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Originally posted by: Berny
Ooo...hey would this by any chance be planned for the other connectormabob on the bottom of the cube? Sounds cool. They will get ripped apart though for "copying" M$...

on one hand no, because Ps2 is going to have one
on the other hand it's gamecube so.....

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:02:27 AM »

Technically it's a Zip drive...but it hasn't even been confirmed yet. I wonder what it would be used for? Hmmmmm...

joshnickerson · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:05:02 AM »

"But what games announced will use it?"

More than likely, if it's actually released, it will serve only as a "Big Ass Memory Card". I can't see Nintendo pulling an "Expansion Pak" at this point in the game. Plus, if they made a game that used the hard drive, they would have to make the game also accessable for people who don't own it, unless, of course, they included it in a big game (like the EP for Donkey Kong 64 or Majora's Mask)

But I think this is just a rumor though. Probably rumblings of what's to come on Nintendo's next system.

joeamis · « **Reply #6 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:05:42 AM »

its a zip drive?! 64DD LIVES!!!!!!! (outside Japan)
wow now they can make rewritable disks for the Gamecube!
THIS WILL BE SO AWESOME

MagicToenail · « **Reply #7 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:56:41 AM »

I think I read somewhere, probabaly spong.com, that nintendo planned on releasing extra donkey konga disks for expansion, maybe this will have to do with donkey konga?

nolimit19 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2003, 12:23:16 PM »

why dont i believe anything reported in this forum?

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #9 on:** October 16, 2003, 12:30:19 PM »

Because you've lost your inner child.

and inner Hulkamaniac.

nolimit19 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 16, 2003, 12:34:12 PM »

lol i think its because megaton made me lose my inner child.

Jdub03 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:01:00 PM »

Maybe this was their new hardware anouncement, or was that announcement scheduled for 2004. I cant remember, but im not believing it until it comes directly from nintendo.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #12 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:29:08 PM »

We're in luck. The M3G@70N is now 40GB big.

Gibdo Master · « **Reply #13 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:40:19 PM »

This really concerns me because it reminds me of the Expansion Pak deal. I can almost guarantee that if they do release this there will be certain games that won't work unless you have it.

Rich · « **Reply #14 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:45:14 PM »

Isn't 40 gigs a bit excessive. I'm not sure but are harddrives expensive, and arent they even more expensive when squeezed down so small so that is fits in the only unused port under the gamecube(which isn't very big). Well if it is so expensive I wouldn't expect to see something 40 gigs i would think more like 10 GBs

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #15 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:48:52 PM »

Hard drives aren't that expensive- I got a 120 GB hard drive for $90. Comparitively, a 40GB would be about $30.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #16 on:** October 16, 2003, 02:53:52 PM »

So basically it would around the price of an expansion pak. Not bad...

The more I think about it, the more the answer points to games like Stage Debut(which looks quirky, but fun, a la AC)

ezaphlix · « **Reply #17 on:** October 16, 2003, 03:23:48 PM »

Rewritable. Mass-storage. Compact. Sounds less like a GCN add-on and more like the storage medium for N5 if you ask me.

cml · « **Reply #18 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:09:48 PM »

I really do hope they put a harddrive in the N5, because dealing with memory cards out and out sucks on so many levels, especially for developers, but this is 'bean counting' Nintendo we are talking about, and common sense and practicality is often forgotten in Kyoto.

Having said that, there is absolutely 0 chance that this will prove true for GameCube.

Chris.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #19 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:20:28 PM »

More out of the rumor mill...This zip drive would be the answer to complaints about the limited size of Ninty's standard memory cards...Though I wouldn't be surprised if it could be used to store large amounts of data in future games(like I said, Stage Debut could be one)

cml · « **Reply #20 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:48:38 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill
This zip drive would be the answer to complaints about the limited size of Ninty's standard memory cards...

The best answer to that would be to release a Memory card that is at least the same size as your competition. This zip drive talk is nothing short of pure nonsense.

Chris.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #21 on:** October 16, 2003, 05:00:12 PM »

Ah ah ah! *waves finger*

Let's not get too hasty now. If this even exists, we have no idea what this thing will be used for. So don't be calling it nonsense until we get more info

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #22 on:** October 16, 2003, 05:08:24 PM »

There was a Zip drive for the N64, at the very end of its life. It fit into the cartridge slot and didn't have a pass through port, so I'm not sure how it worked, but it at least shows Nintendo has a relationsip with Zip.

cml · « **Reply #23 on:** October 16, 2003, 05:08:40 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill
Ah ah ah! *waves finger*

Let's not get too hasty now. If this even exists, we have no idea what this thing will be used for. So don't be calling it nonsense until we get more info

I'm not being hasty. And I'm not calling "the zip drive" nonsense either. I am saying the idea that one exists is pure nonsense.

Chris.

d_bomb_23 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 16, 2003, 06:23:57 PM »

hmmmmm
maybe this is the new product that the big N is suppose to announce this spring?

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