RolStoppable said:
potato_hamster said:
If in the next home console is cartridge-based, while it may be similar to an SD card it will not be anywhere close to a "standard SD card" that would be used in cameras, media players etc. for one main reason: piracy. If you could read a Nintendo game cartridge using a standard port on your computer, creating new copies of that game would be absolutely trivial to the right person.
"Now why would this matter? Of course it's not going to be an SD card with extra read/write protection! It will have to be unique and not something pretty much any device you own can read" You might say. Well there's that cost thing everyone keeps talking about. SD cards are super cheap because they are producing millions of cards that can be read by pretty much any device. Add extra security or a unique shape, and guess what you have? The PS Vita memory card. How about how palatable the consumer base found dishing out $100 for a 32 GB memory card when the 32 GB SD sitting on a shelf 50 feet away was $15? They felt robbed. Now I know using such a card as a game cartridge rather than a memory cartridge means a much higher volume, which would drive costs down, but it only costs around $5 to press a blu-ray. Cartridges would definitely be more expensive than that.
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The 3DS uses uniquely shaped game cards and nobody has had any issues with them.
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Yes of course. If Nintendo does go to a cartridge-based solution, it will be more like a 3DS cart in terms of execution - all i'm saying is won't be a variant of an SD card. It appears my second paragraph never came off the way I intended it to - it makes it sound like any cartridge solution would be impractical. This obviously isn't true, especially if these cartridges are read-only.
