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SvennoJ on 29 July 2014
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Baalzamon said:
AZWification said:

Fast load times might have been great, but so were games like Final Fantasy IX, Tekken 3, Symphony of the Night, etc... which didn't come out for the N64 due to the system using cartidges.. :-/

Yea, but that certainly wouldn't have to happen today. The reality is, even if every cartridge had 50gb of data to match what was on disks, I wouldn't see it having a production cost of more than $10-$15, which could be represented with a nominal price increase of $20 or less. Not that big of a deal, and something I would be more than willing to pay extra for.

Especially as somebody who plays sports games, the load times have always just been atrocious. I often play golf on my PS3, and my round times could be cut in half or better with significantly reduced loading times between frames.

Games are all installed now, or you can buy digital. Replacing the HDD with an SSD only slightly increases loading times. Why would that be different with a cartridge? It's not worth $20 extra per game to shave a few seconds of load times.

What is possible is have a cartridge and install parts to fast SSD memory inside the console, then have 2 fast places to load from while playing. However storage space and downloadable games parity is the priority nowadays. The blu-ray drive is ignored while it could be used alongside the HDD to speed up loading.