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10:39 PM on 07.30.2008

Rumor Bonus: Nintendo developing holographic storage?
NihonTiger90	18 comments

Score another one for the Patent Office and some NeoGAFfers. Along with digging up news on Jet Grind Radio, they have uncovered an interesting patent detailing a joint research agreement between your friendly neighborhood Nintendo and InPhase Technologies. The agreement apparently covers "a device comprising a spatial flexure for a scanner used in angle multiplexing of holographic data." In other words, Nintendo is working on holographic storage, likely for their next console. Holographic storage is fairly complicated to explain, but in short, it just means that the next Wii might be able to hold a shit ton of information. Like 500 GB. Or greater.

What does this mean for us? Probably an expensive next console from Nintendo and an explanation to where all their Wii Play and Wii Fit money is going. How they'll use it, though, I don't have an idea, because there are a lot of possibilities.

Check out the NeoGAF thread here, which offers some long explanations of just what holographic storage is. Of course, this could mean nothing, but remember: they had a partnership with a gyroscope company before the Wii came out.

Edit: Yes, I screwed up and put MB where GB should have been. Pay no attention because I wrote that at 1:30 in the morning and I wasn't paying attention. It's 500 GB, obviously not 500 MB.

17 comments | showing # 1 to 17

Tubatic says:
(# 0) on 07/30/2008 23:16

a whole 500MB?

pedrovay2003 says:
(# 1) on 07/30/2008 23:17

...I don't even know how to begin comprehending this.

Dexter345 says:
(# 2) on 07/30/2008 23:20

I'm with Tubatic. I can't tell if you're being facetious about 500 MB, or if you just made a typo.

Doesn't the Wii already hold 512 MB?

nintendoll says:
(# 3) on 07/30/2008 23:23

FIVE HUNDRED MEGSSSS?!?!?!?

lulz.

Tubatic says:
(# 4) on 07/30/2008 23:24

Now we're playing with power . . .

pedrovay2003 says:
(# 5) on 07/30/2008 23:27

I think he was kidding about the storage thing. We all just like making fun of the Wii's lack of storage.

Tubatic says:
(# 6) on 07/30/2008 23:31

I just read about that holographic stuff. crazy stuff. If they can make RAM out of it, that would probably skyrocket processing speeds. Or so my soft understanding of computer hardware would have me believe.

ReclusiveSpirit says:
(# 7) on 07/30/2008 23:32

I want to get really excited about this info. I'm just not too sure what to make of it. It's a nice start to something though.

RJG says:
(# 8) on 07/30/2008 23:33

Yes Dexter, he was being facetious.

Holographic storage could mean an ordinary DVD could hold up to 1TB of data, but it's been a while since I read up on the whole thing, so maybe the research has changed since then.

A New Challenger says:
(# 9) on 07/30/2008 23:37

Hey, it's Tron Knotts.

mix says:
(# 10) on 07/30/2008 23:41

500mb?

Why, that's UNDER 9THOUSAAAAND!

I do want to hear more about this new technology though.

MATTFOO says:
(# 11) on 07/31/2008 01:09

lol wtf...nice ass

EternalDeathSlayer says:
(# 12) on 07/31/2008 01:56

An expensive next console from Nintendo? I'm sorry, but I fail to see the logic in that. The money from Wii and DS is going in to investor's pockets and into new technology and games, but they certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to try and release an expensive console next time around. The Wii is proof that price matters to the consumer. $250 is the magic number for a brand new console. Any more puts it slightly out of reach for the casual fans, something Nintendo doesn't want to do.

Suff0cat says:
(# 13) on 07/31/2008 02:02

Leave the rumor posting to the trained professionals.

atheistium says:
(# 14) on 07/31/2008 02:12

lol wut?

Wexx says:
(# 15) on 07/31/2008 08:26

FUUUUCK 500 MB!

NihonTiger90 says:
(# 16) on 07/31/2008 10:03

Dex, that was a typo. Should be GB.

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