Cartridges -> disk -> Cartridges come back??

[Killy_Vorkosigan]

Disk = loading times, less reliability of the support, price of the hardware and reliability of the hardware because of the moving parts...

For the handelds, just look at the success of the DS. I remember the first PSPs when everyone was using the memory sticks to play games because of the problems related to the UMD.

For the other consoles, I think the introduction of optical disk, then DVD was an error because of the long loading times, compared to the cartridges. I remember when we had to rotate the psone to read disks ^^ Worst were the countless disk read errors that occured with the ps2, or optical drive failures...

Now, I think these problems are behind us, but I still had two unreadable disks with my Wii, which I got replaced at the store. Moreover, with the rising capacity of the flash drives (up to 32/64 Go, and rising), I hope that manufacturers will come back to cartridges soon, for the better.