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HappySqurriel on 27 March 2008
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kingofwale said:
Viper1 said:
kingofwale said:
Viper1 said:
I've got 2 little identical boxes. One holds 10 CD/DVD's, the other one holds 40 DS games.

10 DVD holds (depends on if it's DVD9) about 90GB of storage data

40 DS holds about (on max) about 10 GB of storage data.

 

storage capacity difference is why PS and Microsoft decided to go to Disc format in the first place, and why Nintendo switched to disc format in GC as well.


Thank you for stating the obvious. We aren't currently debating capacity, that issue was addressed way up top and is rather common knowledge.

 

You were suggesting the physical dimensions of the two mediums placed CD's at the advantage for storing them. You've been informed otherwise.


 We are debating CD/DVD vs Cartridge, read the title, Thank you for coming.

I was suggesting BOTH, again, read my first post. 

 

 

50GB SD, how much? Is it possible in next 5 years to have it cheap enough to replace disc format? I remember SS (64GB) harddrive upgrade on Apple Air costs over 1000 dollars. 


ROM memory is far less expensive than Flash memory, 16GB of flash memory is somewhat affordable currently ($70 retail for a usb key), and you need less storage space on a cartridge because you are not going to be storing redundant data to keep loading times reasonable.

Personally, I doubt there will be a move towards cartridges again ... I think it is far more likely that data requirements will moderate while RAM continues to grow, which will result in massive ram-discs to cache a lot of game data to create more seamless environments.