badmotormonkey on 02 January 2009
Does anyone think it's possible to get rid of the drive all together? Not to replace with download, but to replace with some sort of flash memory that games would ship on?
I've seen 16 GB SD drives in the $20 range at retail. 8 GB (just about the current max on a 360's DVD) can be bought in the low teens. I'm sure a manufacturer can get them significantly cheaper. Just a few years ago this type of price wasn't even possible.
So if a 8-16GB card were to come down to the $3-$5 range by 2012, it would be a great way for Sony to go. They could spend $1 to manufacture a the drive for both their PS4 and PSP2.
