Xbox 2 Cartridges: Whaaa?

[OftenK]

Maybe I don't fully understand yet, but I really don't see how well this is going to play out.

[Chris]

I have no comments regarding any of that stuff (because I don't really care) except for the part about games in a series possibly being able to share data. That pretty much rules. Then games like KOTOR 2 could just take the ending from KOTOR without having to ask the player how everything turned out.

[Twilo]

There is no way in hell that they are going to get this patent.

You want prior art? How about 30 years of video games, and at least 10 years of being able to share data between games via storage media (consider Sega's Dreamcast VMU, which allowed you to carry your data from the home version of Virtua Fighter 4 into the arcades).

[Savage Cabbage]

If the patent covers games to cover from their current console or Xbox2 then there is no reason why this patent will be rejected. If developers factor these possibilities into future games it will make for exceptionally interesting possibilities for RPGs and such. I will look to Japan to come up with some rather clever backwards forwards type ideas. Considering they filed for this idea since '04 then it is possible that they have already begun building this forwards/backwards system into current games, as long as the developer in relation signed an agreement which ensures they dont make void the patent based on discussing an idea with an outside party which would nullify said patent. Possibly

Where's SEGA to show you what I mean?

[Twilo]

The Golden Sun games on the GBA allowed you to do that sort of thing too, where the second game would ask you to momentarily insert the first game, where it would read your party and stats, and copy them into the new game. This isn't new stuff by any means.

[nsps]

Your Golden Sun 2 let you put the game in the GBA? Mine made me type in a long strand of gibberish letters because I didn't have two GBAs and a link cable. Oh well, it was more exciting than that 45-minute opening cut scene and pressing A over and over while someone occasionally asks you yes/no questions until receiving the obvious answer.