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"Cartridges are not much more expensive to produce than disks", LOL ...

Console manufacturers would know more than some random commentator at mynintendonews. Yes, a disc drive can cost more than some integrated cartridge slot with the memory controller but with cartridges you risk having to pass on the costs to publishers, consumers, and console manufacturers instead of passing it on to the platform ...

As far as faster read/write throughput or durability all of that is dependent on the quality of the entire peripheral system so you can't just expect any random solid state based storage to beat discs in these metrics ...