Why are we still using discs instead of cartridges?

[Nem]

Intrinsic said:

Nem said:

I'm sorry, but you are making a case that solid state drives are better, but those aren't discs. VS discs its obvious that cartdridges are looking better.

Also, these theories always assume everyone has an awesome internet connection everywhere and yes, theres the costs to consider. SSHD are pricy.

Costs are the most important factor in all of this.

The problem is how you are looking at it. You arent thinking big enough.

First off, look at internal drives. And not HDDs or SSDs. I'm talking M.2 drives.

Those can offer transfer speeds (esecially in an optimized console enviroment) of at least 3GB/s. That is magnitudes better than what you can get from the fastest cart right now (~250MB/s) and  better than what you can get from any SATA drive. 

Now why that is important is that if you can see that, then you will see that all  console manufacturers have to focus on is getting the game into your box. Be it via a disc drive or via download. Cause all the games will be run off the internal drive at the end. Thats already happening now.

Basically, the best and cheapest kinda "cart" to have is an M.2 drive as that isnt just better performing than acart but also can hold waaaay more. There is even a 16TB m.2 drive out there now. And as long as all a disc or cart represents is just a way of moving data to your console, then a disc will always be cheaper than a cart. 

It's not that i'm not thinking big enough. It's that i'm staying in the thread's topic.