OdinHades said:
Read speeds won't be faster. While there are fast cards around, those are quite expensive. Not something Nintendo would consider for distributing games. They will instead choose cheap cards. They reach read speed of about 9 MB/s. The Ps4 Blu-Ray Drive with it's 6x speed reaches 27 MB/s, so three times faster. I also don't think that they will bring cards bigger than 32 GB. It might look cheap in the store, but if you're about to use that for millions and millions of copies, it makes a big difference if the medium costs you 0.10 $ or 2.50 $. |
Access speeds will be considerably faster, and the read speed on the PS4's BluRay is irrelevant, its not running off the disc. You don't need to install to HDD with flash memory since you're not using a dead-end data format like laser discs. You have to factor in the loss in costs of development in removing the BluRay player which is tens of dollars per unit vs. saving a few cents on enormous bulk orders which can be negotiated.
| spemanig said: It would be stupid and prematurely kill third party support because of how expensive they'd be compared to the competition using disks. No sane developer would support it. So I'd be pissed. But there's no chance in hell that's happening, so all is well. |
They're not much more expensive in bulk order per gig. If Nintendo went this route, they (and third parties) wouldn't have to pay BluRay royalties, have a BluRay player (moving parts, expensive in general), and could offer potential pricing discounts on bulk flash prints for their partners since Nintendo would be saving a lot of money per console.
