Optical drives need to be kicked to the curb! Flash is the next-gen future.

[Squilliam]

NJ5 said:

heruamon said:
I just love it when people throw out numbers...kinda like...You'll never need mor ethan 640 kb...or maybe many of you are simply too young to remember that...or that the PC was never going to appeal to the masses. Flash memory is the future, and looking at how the cost has shrunk in the last 3 years, WITHOUT a major catalyst, I can see it being a viable median for the future. It's small and compact, and uses less power, generates less heat, and is cooler to tote around (okay...no scientific data for this one).

It's just not very clear to me that the costs will be low enough for the next generation.

 

You've been saying how the hardware costs on the PS3 won't scale well with time due to proprietary technology. The costs are high enough this generation really.

You have:

• Optical Drive $20-40 at launch.
• HDD $30-40 at launch.
• Extra memory, motherboard complexity $10
• Packaging also cannot scale as well, as an optical drive must always be fitted
• Total: $60-90 in fixed costs which will hardly drop for the lifetime of the console.