Prediction: "Cartridges" will return for the Nintendo home console

[Zappykins]

exdeath said:

Some of us demand it.  Computers are too fast and data is too large.  Mechanical media cannot keep up.  It never has.  Solid state was always how it should be.  Don't know why we transitioned to primitive shitty magnetic and optical rotating track storage to begin with.  That shit was barbaric in the 1950s.  Read/Write heads have no place in the 21st century.

I want even the next home video 4k format to be some kind of card.  I imagine of library of BD or DVD cases and think what if they were all like Vita cards/cases.

I wasn't advocating mechanical media, more as no more physical media.   They way songs, music, business, and many movies, games and TV shows are now distributed.  Actually, just exactely like this web site, and all other web sites.  They are just digital data in the internet ether.

I think we are about to have another bump forward in computer power.  The last few development cycles have been about making things smaller and use less power - more so than more power and higher speed.  But DDR4 memory is out and the chips have caught up with battery and cooling life - time to expand forward as they did around a decade ago.

4k is here, but I have only seen it as an all digital media.  From Youtube to Netflix, there is 4k content as well as the soon more broadly adoptin of .256 format which will give you a 4k picture in the same badwith as 1080p today.  Plus the internet is just getting so much faster.

They could do SD cards.  And there are a few good reasons for them, but with all the extra processing, packaging and shipping I think they are lost to the benefits of, cost savings, endless duplication and rapid distrubtion of an all digital format.