Mistershine said:
nightsurge said:
I think flash memory would be a great possibility, but then it seems like it would be too easy to pirate, or perhaps too easy to corrupt the data by popping the flash drives in and out all the time.
The benefits of flash storage, though, would be:
Size: could fit 16GB of data on a 2 inch device. makes having a large collection of games much easier to organize
Speed: great data transfer rates using either SD or a USB flash drive.
Cost: low cost, as you said already.
The only other negative I could see is that right now flash media is topping out at around 16GB for USB flash drives. Perhaps in a year or two this number could have doubled or so, but that still leaves Blu-Ray with a data size advantage. I'm really not sure what they will use, but it's really a toss up between Blu-Ray, flash, HD-DVD, and downloads at the moment.
I don't think it will be all downloads, because not everyone will have fast enough internet and many people like to own the physical media, plus you can't "resell or trade" downloaded media so the used games would no longer be available. |
http://www.memorybits.co.uk/index.php?cPath=764&sort=2a&filter_id=263
Big enough for you? Only problem is cost, but that should decrease vey quickly.
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Yeah, it will come down a lot within the next few year, plus I love the thought of fitting a game on a 1.5"x1" media.
