fatslob-:O on 05 May 2016
| RolStoppable said: Optical discs are also ROMs. Anyway, nothing speaks against using an SD card variant for a home console. Third parties are making games for the 3DS, and 3DS games are significantly cheaper than home console games. Yes, that's because of the significant difference in development costs, but it should be obvious that the manufacturing costs for 3DS cards and blu-ray discs are in the same ballpark. Furthermore, Sony switched to cards with the Vita because optical media simply had no notable advantages anymore. |
Sony switched to memory cards because they were smaller to house in a portable unit, not because optical media didn't have any advantages ...
Optical media is still cheaper per GB and with the right drive it can be faster than solid state storage like in the case of PS4 (27 MB/s read) and 3DS (4.5 MB/s read) ...
