I think "Cartridges" today would be something like an SD or SDHC card. It's widely used now, especially in gaming and it's faster than any BD. It's not impossible and PSV and 3DS are still using exact and derivative forms of the SD card. I think cards, ironically enough, are the future. They're small, lightweight, and can hold just as much as a BD easy. Most games these days don't go past 64GB and if so, it's due to updates that would be stored on an internal HDD. Loading times would be virtually non-existent without devs having to put together a magic system on discs. You don't have to worry about scratches or anything like that. The only cons are they can get lost easy and are difficult to handle over a disc.
I think they should make a comeback as they're getting really cheap to produce. Nintendo had something going with Nintendo 64, carts were just to expensive to make for too little storage. I think they can and should return. And again, it's not hard to rip formats from discs for piracy but it's more difficult to rip from a proprietary SD format. Thus cementing Nintendo's "fight" against piracy even though it's not done much for the 3DS sadly.
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