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exdeath on 21 May 2015
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Bofferbrauer said:
WhiteEaglePL said:
I think Nintendo would go back to the same problem as with Gamecube.........too much work for 3rd parties to make it fit in the awkward SD cards.

I don't see it or 'Fusion' happening.

You do are aware that SD cards can hold right now over 10 times more data than a Blu-Ray Disc? The biggest SD cards you could buy atm have 512 GB of space, which is even over 20 times what an optical disc can have. Granted, these SD cards cost something like 600$ a piece, but space definitly ain't a problem here

@DanneSandin

The drawbacks of SD cards over Blu-Ray discs are:

- Production price: Flash memory is expensive (which is why SD cards will not be used, it need to be ROMs which are way cheaper to produce once it's set up. See posts on first page for details)

- Transfer speed: even less bandwith than Blu-Ray discs for the most part, which would mean even longer loading times

- But the main problem is: God damn easy to copy. The Internet would get flooded with the games for the console practically the instant they get released.

Seriously, using SD cards would be the dumbest thing they could do. Using a new format of similar size with ROMs are no problem, but standard SD cards would be suicide. No one would want to produce games for a format without any possibility for at least an halfway decent copy protection.


No way.  Show me a BD that can stream 90 MB/s (not bits, BYTES) or can sustain MB/sec speeds under purely random access.  Once you start seeking random small files the SD card is going to be thousands of times faster.