Disks or Cartridges? | |||
| Disks | 57 | 27.40% | |
| Cartridges | 121 | 58.17% | |
| Why not Both? | 21 | 10.10% | |
| See Results | 9 | 4.33% | |
| Total: | 208 | ||
| dharh said: My question. Since when has a single Nintendo cart come in a steelcase? Has there been a collectors edition since golden zelda edition? Carts have always seemed like cheep plastic throwaways. While game discs have always seemed more substantial, or at least their packaging, and of course have collectors editions esp steelcase. |
Haven't seen many of them, but they do exist:
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Haven't seen many of them, but they do exist:
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It would be mostly pokemon, wouldn't it. Ugh.
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Cartridges. They are completely different today than they were 20 years ago. They fixed all the problems with cartridges (storage space, cost) and still have all the advantages of older cartridges. I think discs are starting to become the obsolete format now, especially given how poorly they seem to work with modern consoles.
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I love em both but it's times for carts to reign supreme again.
Cartridges have no load times? Is it magical or something?
If games will cost the same cartridges are faster, smaller and i think there'll be no need to install the games in the hdd.
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| Jon-Erich said: Cartridges. They are completely different today than they were 20 years ago. They fixed all the problems with cartridges (storage space, cost) and still have all the advantages of older cartridges. I think discs are starting to become the obsolete format now, especially given how poorly they seem to work with modern consoles. |
How did they fix all the problems? A 64Gb card is still way more expensive than pressing a dual layer blu-ray. Publishers won't even fork out for a second disk if the full game doesn't fit and make you download the rest...
How do they still have all the advantages? Large games will still need to be installed whether the come on a card or not, simply to maintain one patched version on the hdd, identical with the digital download version. Developers could use the blu-ray drive today, it's a lot faster than the one in the ps3 and is perfectly suitable to load data from in parallel next to using the hdd. Last gen, games were optimized to use both and some even outperformed the digital version on the much slower older blu-ray drives.
Load times are not going away either with cartridges, unless the games become tiny again. Does installing a game to an SSD remove load times? Does the 3DS not have load times?
It would be lovely to have the game with all patches and savegames on it's own cartridge. I don't see it happening though. Imagine how long it takes to write an 8GB patch to a cheap flash card. Discs are the cheapest way to distribute games. Unless consoles become so small a disc won't fit, they'll stick to using discs. (Or just go full digital)
| Vini256 said: Cartridges. Way more durable and they just feel right. That clicking sound when you put one into the console is so satisfying =P Also, they're pretty practical (The handheld ones at least), because you can just buy one of these cases and keep all of them in one place:
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Yes, the clicking sound from putting in a cartdridge is satisfying! Compare that to the whiny sounds you are granted with after you put in a DVD.
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