Nintendo NX is a HANDHELD?

It's fixed now

Cartridges(flash memory) are faster than discs. The move to CD-Roms was because they could hold more data back then. If you compare the same title on PS1 and N64, the PS1 version looks better but had crazy long loading times.

At this point cartridges and Blu-Rays have similar specs, but I think it's preferable to not have a moving disc inside of a (semi?)portable console. The games could be put on a hard drive (or solid state, but that would raise the price like crazy) but then you'd be stuck with a limited amount of space and would need to decide on which games you keep on it and which ones you delete.

Except if its portable you don't want moving parts. Also how big do you think a 32 gig cart would be? You can get 32 gig micro SD cards for your cell phone, so i don't see how size will be an issue,

Thank you. I have seen the error of my ways.

@Kevin_01 Personally I'd prefer to go with "cartridges" because of the more stable environment. Nintendo is large enough to get manufacturer deals on SSDs. It wouldn't take much to make the SSDs proprietary for Nintendo devices (meaning only works with...) having a 30-50gb "cartridge" would be just fine for a few games. all they'd really have to do is for the new system is make the base programming for all of the NX games the same (i.e. same engine/architecture) and store than on the handheld, and then the external would just be game specific data that would just need to referance whats already on the device. I'm honestly kindof shocked this kind of transition has not happened before now.