| Twilord said: Could a future console utilize solid-state cartridges in order to effectively 'remove' loading times caused by disc reading?
(Also I want cartridges back because they're soo much easier to keep track of than discs, lets be honest.) |
Despite the price issues, keep in mind that it won't remove loading times. You still have to read from the drive and copy to RAM. Cartridges were directly connected to a fast bus and the console mapped the cartridge to a memory address, so address 0 to X (total RAM) was your memory and address X until Y (size of the cartridge plus RAM) were your memory mapping and it's just a matter of directly calling it. You could even stream data right from the cartridge and economize RAM memory.
It's wiser to put a single SSD to a console, use a regular optical disk and simply cache the disk on the SSD. Cost effective and same result.
