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

[Aielyn]

Eddie_Raja said:

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.

Tell me the truth - you just looked at the typical prices for USB drives when bought individually, cut the cost a little, and assumed that was the amount it would cost for any sort of flash media. Right?

Even a cursory investigation indicates that a common wholesale price for hundreds of sd cards is $5 a card. What happens when you're ordering millions, in a contract rather than through a "retail" wholesaler? What happens when you're partnering with a hardware company to build a factory specifically for manufacturing your cards?

And here's why it would be a smart move - the same technology, the same basic cards, would be usable in both console and handheld. They could simply have the handheld ones be smaller (because you don't need as much storage space), and thus it works for both at once.

But hey, why bother investigating properly, when you can just jump to a conclusion on the basis of the retail price of USB sticks on Amazon?