Solid-State Cartridges?

[Sirius87]

Intrinsic said:

tiffac said:
I'm not a tech person, so I'm illiterate in all of this but why not just use a SD cards? (or something like that) They are cheaper in price.

 

• 64GB Class 10 SDcard (44MB/s max transfer speed) $20 mass produced excluding packaging and distribution. 
• 50GB blu-ray disc (copies data to HDD/SSD) less than $1 mass produced ecluding packing and distribution.
• 1TB HDD (~200MB/s transfer speed) ~$50 mass p. and is only done once with each console for lifetime.
• 1TB SSD (~500MB/s) ~$50 mass p. in another 6 years. Same benefits of above.

So yh, no Sd cards. There is absolutely zero reason to use an SD card. 

 

This (except that SSDs will be way faster in 6 years; using SATA-Express or m.2 ~2000MB/s may be the standard by then)

But there's one scenario where SD-cards may be used in the future: A console manufacturer decides to abolish optical drives to focus on digital sales, but still wants to give an option for people without fast enough internet connections. But an optional external optical drive may still be better in this case.