Now, another 10 years later, both Nintendo DS and 3DS cartridges are getting harder to come by, especially in original cases. To keep your collection safe, you'll need to clean and store them ...

1/22 From left to right, there’s a Nintendo 64 cartridge, Game Boy Advance cart, Nintendo DS cart, Nintendo 3DS cart, PlayStation Vita cart and, finally, the Switch’s cartridge. The Switch ...

Nintendo wants to change that with the 3DS. According to Japanese news source Nikkei, the handheld will feature an optional “software install,” which lets you copy a 3DS cartridge to internal ...

As "old-school" as cartridges may be, this would actually be the second of Nintendo's currently supported systems to use the format. The handheld Nintendo 3DS uses small cartridges---a sensible ...

That said, the Nintendo Switch packaging takes this trend to a ridiculous extreme. A Switch cartridge measures about 31mm x 21mm x 3mm, slightly smaller than a 35mm x 33mm x 4mm 3DS cartridge.

Comparatively, the Nintendo 3DS portable system has a maximum cartridge size of 8GB, which is based on the system's spec when it launched in early 2011. Call them whatever you want-—flash drives ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. The Nintendo Switch will be the first ...

But Nintendo never really left the cartridge behind. The DS and 3DS still use them, storing games on flash memory instead of optical media. And, it appears, Nintendo may be bringing the cart back ...