| jack100 said: Let's assume that the future of gaming isn't legal downloading of games. Let's say 10 years from now we can still go to our local game store and still buy a game physically. I would hate online distribution, I personally like to have a physical cartridge or disk than download it. A lot of people are assuming that the next high Capacity "disc" that will be used in gaming is Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD). I'm asking is it possible that Cartridge based gaming can come back? Here's a little of my argument, right now you can get Solid-State Drives that are hard drives made from several flash drives (I guess), whereas the normal hard drives are made from cylintrical several disc like disc. We know that Flash drives, such as USB, SD (mini and micro) and getting smaller and faster. By the time when HVD comes out (theoretically holds 1 to 10 TB) wouldn't there be flash drives that can hold that capacity, AND you an access the data faster than a disc drive? yes right now they're expensive, but they are getting chaeper, smaller and can hold larger capacity every year. One problem that I can think of with flash drive gaming would be how too keep it cool in the next gen console if it's reading it at a really hgh rate. I persoanlly hope so, I hate loading times that disc give me on my consoles, but I guess I'm more spoiled when it comes to speed since I liked it when I popped in a cartridge and the game would load instantly. Also please don't say games don't have high loading times, they do, all disc based games do, they had a lot of background loading which I can tell in some games and it annoys me :P |
Smaller, yes. Faster, yes. Cheaper, no. It'll never happen as companies will look out for their bottom line and not your convenience.
