Nintendo will return to old-school game cartridges for its next home console, codenamed the NX, according to The Wall Street Journal. However, it's not the first time we've heard this rumor about the NX, which will be launching globally in March 2017, and is expected to be some sort of hybrid device that works on your TV, but also as a portable console.

Cartridges are more portable than fragile optical discs, potentially corroborating earlier reports that indicated that the NX would include a "mobile unit that could either be used in conjunction with the console or taken on the road for separate use."

Nintendo has not provided anyspecifics about its mysterious new console.