Why are we still using discs instead of cartridges?

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Dulfite said:

JustcallmeRiff said:
I'm guessing anyone who would promote cartridge games again has never had the opportunity to buy a new game off of store shelves in cartridge form. I wonder if they've ever had the privilege to blow into a cartridge to get it to work.

Haven't had to blow into a cartridge since hte N64 days. The DS/3ds ones you don't have to do that.

Yeah, was just gonna say...some of the people in this topic seem to be assuming that they'd actually make the cartridges the size of N64/NES/SNES cartridges. 3DS/DS-sized cartridges would be fine, PLUS they could make the packaging smaller, allowing for more games on store shelves and presumably slightly cheaper production costs for the game cases and potentially a little lower shipping costs for lighter/smaller game cases. Just my guess, though.

I'd definitely prefer cartridges, but doubt it'll happen, especially since things will probably be all-digital soon enough.

To the person who said they didn't mind installing the game onto their harddrive from the discs in order to make load times a little better, I'd hate that. Why would I want to deal with constantly installing and uninstalling games on the harddrive because there isn't enough room for them all when each game could just have its own cartridge and load much faster anyway?