Ok people, I'm just sick and miserable feeling here (had to go to ER last night) so please entertain me. Recently, I was on mynintendonews.com reading an article and comments when I saw the following comment below in reference to NX rumors about is using cartridges potentially.

Is this all true? If so, why are we using dics now days when it sounds like cartridges saves everyone a bunch of money?

Because carts have a lot of parts. If we're not talking about flash cards. They'd have to produce chips for ram and rom, boards etc. More stuff. It's easier to just make flash cards or discs. Plus, they're thicker. A console has to acomodate them. Like the NES front loader. Or they'll stick outside again. Flash memory is still too expensive, for 50GB games.

The only (and most important) obstacle for these hypothetical cartridges would be their production costs. Otherwise, they could very well be superior. No scratches, no install times, faster and more quiet data-reading, etc.

Perhaps dev based carts could be made to cut the cost? (32GB carts for devs with around 32GB games, 64GB for the bigger ones, etc).

Production costs and storage. Nowadays, storage has been mostly solve, you could mass produce 32-64gb games relatively cheap, so I suppose we might go back to them, if digital only doesn't catch up before it.

I doubt a card ridge of 64gb is cheaper than a 50gb blu ray. Besides some still use the blu ray function of the PS4, it is still the best way to view hd movies and series. Besides what's wrong with the system the PS4 and Xone use where the game is transferred to your hard drive, works fine by me.

I'm guessing anyone who would promote cartridge games again has never had the opportunity to buy a new game off of store shelves in cartridge form. I wonder if they've ever had the privilege to blow into a cartridge to get it to work.

Yes but the savings you'd make on the rest of the console and not needing as expensive of cooling systems and other things would probably offset the production costs, at least based on that guy's perspective.

Haven't had to blow into a cartridge since hte N64 days. The DS/3ds ones you don't have to do that.

This will happen.

if they go down the cartridge path they need to do one thing, Make sure everyone thinks of Solid State when it comes to the type of memory, the most technically dim witted person knows the term Solid State and they associate it with fast games with no loading and futuristic technology, if they don't drill it into peoples heads that Carts are solid state and a great thing in terms of play ability then after the reveal of the NX people will just be thinking of those FF7 posters claiming that to put the game on the N64 would cost $2500 rather than thinking of things like No Loading times, no texture pop in rubbish, no mandatory installs etc.