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sc94597 on 07 August 2008
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Soriku said:
DMeisterJ said:
I don't understand this at all.

All of these excuses could have been used in the jump from Cartridges to CD.

Whether or not the industry or developers were "ready" is irrelevant. Innovation waits for no one.

If it were up to Nintendo, we'd still be using cartridges. Good thing that Sony/Saturn pushed CD technology onto developers. Look at the DS, we're in 2008 and it's still on cartridges (and doing awesome I might add). Does anyone think that DS2 or whatever will be CD Based? No. But if PSP had won, we'd definitely be seeing a disc version of a Nintendo handheld.

Nintendo is very happy taking safe bets and doing well in that, and the Wii is really the only departure from that.

 

This makes no sense. The DS launched before the PSP so it doesn't matter who won. The DS would still be using cartidges. Also, the PSP uses UMD discs. Not exactly the hottest type of discs at all. When they release their next handheld it might be CD based though. They'll want to make more space unless they use uber-cartridges that hold 1 GB+ space and are extremely cheap. The GBA used cartidges fine and that was a success so I guess they just reused them, now with more space.

Actually ds games come extremely close to the same amount of space as a CD. Don't some games use 512MB cartridges? Cds are at a max 700MBs. Also with compression of today a DS cartridge could fit alot more at the same quality than a CD in the PS days. I think they might start of with 1GB cartridges and in the end have up to 5MB ones. Cartridges actually are the better solution, just discs are cheaper to make, but I beleive that the price to manufacture cartridges is going down. I'm not too sure though.