Intrinsic said:
What? you think that because SD cards have a smaller footprint they are cheaper? On amazon you can get a pack of 50 50GB bluray discs for a little under $80. That comes up to $1.6 per disc. And this is at retail. For publishers they probably spend no more than 10c on an actual disc. By the time you throw in packaging that goes up to around $3 per game. A 64GB Class 10 SD card Cost around $20. They come in sizes of 8,16,32,64....etc. Now the cost of just the card is probably no less than $5 when u take out the retailer markup. And they can't use less than a class 10, even that is stupid slow peaking at 10MB/s. Unless they use an SDXC card which peaks at around 90MB/s. But that's more expensive. What people need to understand, is that if it were cheaper or better using carts of any kind everyone would use them. Only reason Nintendo has to use them is cause you can't fit a disc drive into a handheld console without adding unnecrary bulk. |
I understand the argument that you are trying to present, but you can't honestly think that Nintendo would be paying the prices for SD Memory cards as what you are finding on Amazon! The company would get great wholesale prices and the major difference between using a card storage medium now versus the N64 days is SD cards are a major standard now. There were so many different types of storage formats that nothing remotely to the size speed and price of current SD cards existed. So not even just making it exclusive to the SD card format, even if the decided to go with some kind of flash Rom it's far more advanced and cheaper than that of the N64.
