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

[heruamon]

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.

 

 

 

That's the beauty of USB...I think 32GB sticks will be feasible by 2011 for mass usage, and by 2013-ish, the 64 will be readily feasible.  Best Buy has a portable 320GB HDD for $99...HOLY SH!T...that was like $300-400 2 years ago...I jsut go a 120GB 2 months ago for $79, and I'm kicking myself in the rear at this point.  I think in 2 year, I think M$ can use the sales data from this generation to do some CBA for flash producers.  With multiple games selling over 5 million copies, the demand for flash drives could be pretty strong, thus driving down the price on volume buys.  The HUGE advantage is the saving on licensing cost, over the LTD of the console.  Just imagine that just like production cost being decreased, so will the cost for the median used to publish the games, whereas the licensing cost would remain constant.  Now, perhaps with this bully stick, nintendo and M$ can low ball sony, since some cash is better than nothing at all.