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Nintendo's main manufacturer for Switch 2 and Switch cartridges is quitting the business [update: primarily Switch 1] (nintendoeverything.com)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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In its financial report, Macronix said ROM fell to 5 percent of its sales. A year ago, it was at 26 percent. Macronix’s chairman noted that capacity is limited and is going to NOR and eMMC memory chips instead.

Analyst David Gibson, who shared the news, pointed out that Macronix isn’t Nintendo’s only game memory card maker. In other words, collectors don’t have to worry yet about physical games being phased out – at least not yet.

Nintendo still has other chip suppliers, but this is a noteworthy development I think.

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[–] 5 points 5 days ago

Optical disk supply is also getting shrunk, probably more than ROM chips.

It would require a complete redesign of the console. Optical media are more fragile, cumbersome and read data slower and more unreliably. The drive would reduce battery time.

Nintendo ain't going to turn to optical media.

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