Nintendo patent leaked suggests an absence of optical disc drive support.
An eagle eyed NEOGAF user revels that Nintendo filed a patent at US Patent & Trademark Office website described as "Stationary Game Apparatus, Game Apparatus, Game System, Recording Medium and Speed Control Method" which points out to the upcoming Nintedo NX.
Unlike the popular Xbox One and PS4 consoles, the home console lacks an optical disc drive support, according to the patent leaked.
"The example system is not provided with an optical disc drive for reading out a program and/or data from an optical disc," the patent stated, according to Attack of the Fanboy
"An example system includes an internal hard disc drive storing a program and/or data, a communication unit transmitting/receiving a program and/or data via a network, and a processor executing a program stored in the hard disc drive to perform game processing."
Interestingly, the patent also shows that the home console will feature a "display unit", more likely the Wii U's GamePad, IB Times added.
The Nintendo NX console was first announced by Satoru Iwata during Nintendo's 74th Fiscal Term Briefing held last December 2014, though it is slated for a 2016 release, Ecumenical News reported.
"It will be a dedicated video game platform with a brand new concept," he had said.
"I intentionally chose to announce the development of NX so early because I wanted to confirm the fact that we are developing a new dedicated video game platform."
He also confirmed that the upcoming Nintendo NX will not be a replacement of the Nintendo Wii or 3DS, instead an addition to the company's gaming consoles.
Meanwhile, in a previous Tweet from Liam Robertson touted as "Unseen 64" said that, "The NX is definitely not aiming to compete with the likes of PS4 on a power level. Absolutely sure of that now."
