| Kyros said: Hehe so you want to go back to smaller discs again? Fat chance this will happen. The point is that many problems of discs can be fixed with hard-disc cache. Games like Uncharted, Ratchet, ... show that this is possible without long loadtimes, without big install... Flash may be the future for handhelds but definitely not for full games. Download to big hard-disc is more like it. |
Between mandatory installs and up to a minute loading before you can even enter any control inputs to start/load a game, there are always loading screens. Also Hard drives are expensive and their cost doesn't scale with time. So that Juicy $400 console may never drop below $150/200 because both the optical drives/hard drives which will both be mandatory just don't scale down in cost like semi-conductors. Furthermore installs are annoying.
@The Fury:
The cheapest 30gb drive is currenty $70 on New Egg with 150 megabytes/sec read speed. It comes with a Sata interface and full retail/manufacturer markups and most likey a premium from it being a new technology. Those costs could easily scale down to under $5 for a humble 16gb card within a few years with mass production of the technology. For comparisons sake the cheapest SD cards are now $6.75 for a 4gb SD card, and $13 for an 8gb card and $24 for a 16gb card. But give it a couple of die shrinks and your 16gb card should cost less than that 4gb card.
Tease.
