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jack100 on 10 January 2010
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WilliamWatts said:
dharh said:
WilliamWatts said:
  • Console can be packaged smaller/cheaper with no implied need for a HDD or Optical Drive except when the console manufacturer wants backwards compatibility. So this saving can offset the cost of flash games for between 4-6 games.

There already is no implied need for HDD. For game installs it's merely a convenience, both for patches and speedups. HDDs are here to stay regardless if all 3 move to cartridges.

Optical drives are not scaling as well to Ram sizes so for every generation it takes longer to read the data needed of disc.


This is the reason that I think Cartridges will come back also.  Everyone wants things to be done faster, if Flash is faster than optical, people will change to flash, assuming that flash is as cheap as optical per GB.  Even if it isn't, what would you rather have, wait for an optical  drive like 10 minutes to load everytime you start up your gaming machine, or pay like $10 extra for a flash version for instanious load. It's like when somene uses a 3.0 GHz PC, and then they try to use a 1.0 GHz PC, most people go crazy cause they don't like that the PC is slow.