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

[Entroper]

bdbdbd said:

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.

Not at all, I was just saying that the size of an affordable cartidge grows.  A cartridge that costs $5 at launch time will be 4-8 times smaller than a cartridge that costs $5 4 years after launch.  You have to design the interface with that growth in mind.