http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/sdxc-memory-cards-promise-2tb-of-storage-300mbps-transfer/

Lightning fast transfer and tons of space, I know it may cost more than the plastic/foil it takes to manufacture a disk, but flash memory prices are plumetting and I doubt most next gen games will need more than 50 gigs. We can only assume 50 gig SDXC carts will be dirt cheap seeing that they are aiming for 40x that to max out the capacity.I for one would welcome this over any optical disk media due to no load times, better durability and of coure more space than devs could ever need.

Holy crap.

Yeah, that would be pretty cool. I hope they go solid state for games in the future (it would revolutionize digital downloads, potentially) but we're probably looking at at least one more generation with disc drives, if just for backwards compatibility.

But yes I think this would be very, very cool.

So what if there is technology for 2,000GB capacity memory cards?

There are 1,500GB hard drives already available on the market, but yet consoles charge you at least $50 for an upgrade in Hd-space of just 60-80GB.

You have to show that ~50Gb Flash cards will become "dirt cheap" in time for next gen. These news are proof of nuffin.

First your comparing swap storage of a game to a HDD? failure comment. How about comparing it to the appropriate large size storage of Blue Ray. Since BR is the largest game media swap storage.

SD data tends to cheapen super fast. It was only a few months ago where a 16gb SDHC was closer to $60. Not it's getting close to $20.

I don't think it will be cost competitive with optical media by the time the next-gen comes. Perhaps for small games, but not for every game.

Duh, completely forgot about BC. I love BC but Sony set a precedent that you can sell a system without BC and sell well. XBOXes BC is limited at best and the masses seem to be ok with it, I can easily see Sony and MS dropping it completely.

Backwards compatibility could be easily achieved by selling a pluggable DVD/BR reader separately for those who want BC. I would probably pay $50 for such an add-on.

What people charge for the hdd's really cant be taken into account as shown by MS's raping of its customers with its overpriced accesories.

But for fyi: you can get a 32 gig flash for $52 here. 16 gigs can be had for $20-$30. It is feasable that at least 64 gig cards will be pretty cheap by 2011/12(I figure the next systems will be out by then). Most tech companies are heavily investing in SSD tech as the old style HDD is going the way of the dinosaur, reducing costs even further. If SSD becomes the standard in computer it is very feasable.

I cant see why anyone would want slow assed ODD over SSD. Theres no positive benifit of it for buyers or sellers(if it is financially feasable).

@CDiablo: Are you talking about using this for distributing games, or for replacing hard drives?

Distributing games, but I would welcome SDD for hard drives if the cost wasnt too much.