Viktor on 12 April 2013
In retrospect cartridges have been a very big mistake. While loading times were great for cartridges they were far too costly, which resulted to multiple times more production costs compared to cheap CDs and more storage capacity. CDs had therefore the benefit to be more profitable and also less risky which was especially appealing to small publishers. Also it allowed to publish magazines with game demoes which really helped the marketing for those games. The benefits for cartridges have been superior loading times, a medium that isn´t as vulnerable you can save your gamedata on the cartridge and also had a higher longevity, while these are legit advantages it just wasnt economically competetive.
