While lord knows they'd prefer everything to go digital, there has been resistance from both consumers and distributors to that idea for obvious reasons.
Sony, for even more obvious reasons, will be sticking with their own format (Bluray) until they drop physical media for good.
Microsoft pays Sony for their format, as it was just the cheapest and best one available at the time.
If the Nx is indeed some sort of hybrid it really seems like something akin to memory cards (not the same as cartridges) would, for the first time, finally be a somewhat viable option going forward for them that would actually kind of make sense. They've grown ever cheaper with consistently increasing storage space, and Nintendo has always been loathe to pay anyone else for use of their format (remember their refusal to remove on from carts and then their own tiny optical disks for the GC?).
I do hope the Nx uses them, as that would be pretty neat. There is zero chance Sony will, however, and it's damn unlikely Microsoft ever would either.
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