| Soundwave said: Who says it's 10x the price of a disc? I can get 32GB SD Cards if I'm willing to order in 1000 pieces bulk for about $1 a pop. Imagine the price for Nintendo ordering 5 million of them. Even if it is literally 10x the cost of a disc, if a disc costs 10 cents to press, that means the cartridge you're talking about is ... $1 at a production level.
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3-3.5c per GB? Where? How? And then what class? The HDDs in the PS4/Xbone have a reading speed of up to 100MB/s. Which isn't really great. A Class 10 SD card has a certified reading speed of.. 10MB/s indeed. One sure can't run modern games on it. There would be pop-ins all over. Then 32GB aren't enough. And a console needs internal (fast) storage as well for patches. Which can get just huge nowdays.
Sure SD cards for selling games is under consideration by all for the future consoles, but I'm afraid it's still a bit too early in terms of costs for it.
