How would you feel if the next Nintendo console used flash memory cards?

[Eddie_Raja]

Aielyn said:

Eddie_Raja said:

3DS cartridge holds 128MB - 8GB.  Good luck fitting modern games on that buddy, oh and they will read as fast as a CD-ROM.

You do realise that console games cost more than handheld games anyway, right? And the 3DS is old tech, now, and its cards are designed to be very small, you'd assume that they'd be able to go larger with a console system.

Realistically, a 64 GB cartridge would be sufficient for the vast majority of games. If the next console comes out in 2017, it would be about the right time for an upgrade in data space without significantly increasing costs.

And what makes you think it will "read as fast as a CD-ROM"?

Look up 3DS cartridge speeds if you dont believe me.  Even a cheap 64GB USB will cost them at least $20 instead of $0.50 for q blue ray.  That destroys your profits and is one of the Main reasons the N64 made so much less money than the PS1 (even accounting for marketshare differences).  There is a reason some people here arent in charge of companies like Nintendo, and it is because they would make idiotic profit destroying choices like the ones being proposed in this thread.