The Nintendo is a very popular company in the production of gaming consoles. It is probably the number one company to be producing and selling the game pads. There is a wide range of the Nintendo products. The storage devices are need to store the images, videos, and other files related to the games. The commercial games that are downloaded from the internet can also be stored in the storage devices. This article explores the types and information about each type of the storage devices. It will also give you the information about the R4DS, the latest technology in the storage devices by Nintendo.

There is a wide range of storage devices offering various capacities of memory and physical size and price. There are two categories of the storage devices by Nintendo: Slot1 devices and slot2 devices. Slot1 devices are said to be the first generation devices. The slot2 devices are called second generation devices. Let us take a look at the both type of devices:

Slot1 or the First generation devices:

The first generation devices fit into the slot1 of the Nintendo DS gaming console. They are the older devices and not currently used or soled in the market. The example of the first generation storage devices are GBA cartridge, SuperCard technology, GBAMP CF technology and M3. The first generation storage devices offer less features than the second generation storage devices. The memory capacity was not so much that offered by the first generation devices. The first generation storage devices contain a flash memory and can not support a slot for the external memory expansion. This is one of the reason of smaller capacity of the first generation storage devices.

Slot2 or the second generation devices:

The second generation devices fit in the slot 2 of the Nintendo game console. They are newer devices offering more features than the first generation devices. The technology has increased the featured provided by the Nintendo storage devices. The examples of the second generation storage devices are: R4 Revolution for DS, G6 Real, and DS-X. The second generation storage devices offer more features such as increased capacity of memory, fast speed, wireless communication, touch screen user interface and more interesting 3d games to play. The current revolution in the Nintendo storage devices is the R4DS technology. The R4DS is a cartridge that can be used to connect the Nintendo gaming console to the storage device such as a SD card. The games and information is stored in the SD card and R4DS provides a way to connect the SD card to the Nintendo gaming console.

The R4DS is truly a revolution for the Nintendo gaming console. It has increased the features of the Nintendo gaming machine. After the R4DS technology has come, we can do a lot more things on the Nintendo system other than just playing games. It provides you the facility to watch movies, videos, photos and hear music of your choice by having the facility to support many files.