
Geek Revolt writes "Project Café is expected to be more powerful than current generation consoles, but what good is power if it’s missing a basic feature that the PS3/Xbox 360 has? Today Kotaku reported that Nintendo’s Wii successor "might" skip a hard drive in favor of 8 gigs of flash storage. This is fine for an iPod Touch—but for a next generation console, Nintendo should consider adding a hard drive. Here’s a few reasons why releasing a console with 8 gigs of flash is a major problem."

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
It really doesn't make sense, especially economically. Sure, they might save a few dollars on the hardware, but think of all the lost opportunities to make money off of DLC, downloadable games, etc. in the future because the customers don't have the space available. If this rumor is true, then I can really see Project Cafe become like the next Dreamcast: only marginally better than current consoles and will probably be outclassed by the PS4 and the next Xbox.
I will wait and see if this rumor of the storage is true, if it is then yes its a problem.
This IS just a rumor people. A lot of people are taking this as a fact and bashing Nintendo for it. Just wait till E3.
I will wait for the big E3 unveil.
If this is rue, is this another attempt at Nintendo and its various reasons over the years to prevent modding/hacks/pirating?
Good God Nintendo please make it not so and have a HDD inside this new console for crying out loud.