Who Needs DVD, BLU-RAY or HD DVD when this is just around the corner?

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Entroper said:

weezy said:
oh great now nintendo's next gen handheld/console will use this in thier cartridges.

Why not? If it's affordable and faster than optical storage, and a reasonable size, I say hell yes. At current growth rates, I think it won't quite be ready for the next generation -- but then, one thing about using cartridges is that they can grow during the lifespan of a console. N64 launch games were 8 MB in size, but games released late in the N64's life cycle were 64 MB in size. The trouble is that people didn't want to pay $70-75 for games, but we've already shown you can make these things for $5.

 The N64 cartriges were originally designed to be max 64MB, so they didn't actually "grow" at any point. Atleast not beyond it's limits, which i think you were implying.

 

But you did hit the point with affordability, if we assume, that next generation games are in average of 20GB  in disc size, and the cost for one HD-DVD/BD will be about 10-20 cents per disc. And if we assume, that 20GB of NAND will cost 5€ by then, that means production cost per a million selling game will be 4,8 million higher. Or for  half a million copies selling game 2,4 million higher, which may be the profit margin.

But, if prices drop enough per gigabyte, i believe that Nintendo will use NAND-flash in Wiis successor (Wii has NAND-flash as system memory).