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Ck1x on 30 May 2016
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Intrinsic said:
Ck1x said:

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.

I don't know where you got that i was saying nintendo will pay amazon prices for their storage medium. I clearly pointed out what the cost will be after you take out retailer markups. If on amazon it cost $20, then nintendo cant get that at anything less than $5, or even if you want you can say $2. Thats writing of 90% of the cost as a retailer markup. 

Thst still lesves you with one medium costing around 10c-25c and another costing $2-$5. Doesn't sound like much, until you start counting in the millions. 

And about the cards or type of cards used, first understnd that atorage media isnt onky determined by their capacity. The speed of such media is also very important. Their availability too. And its ludicrous to even be talking about N64 carts...... what was the size of the biggest N64 game? 50MB? 100MB?..... hell, lets even say 400MB and i know they  werent that big. A modern HD game with texture rez that will look halfway decent at 1080p wont come in anythjng less than 15GB today, unless nintendo wants to make games that look like 360 games. This all brings me to the soeed of the carts...

A class 10 SD card has a transfer speed of 10MB/s - 30MB/s. Thats how quickly you can move data from the cart to system ram or an internal HDD. SD cards tech are the most popular and common card tech out there today. Which means they sre the cheapest. If you want, you can use SDXC tech instead, ramp up transfer speeds to over 90MB/s, but those are more expensive.... and if nintendo goes with a proprietary card tech, then that will be most expensive, since they will be the only ones using it. 

No matter how its spun, carts cost more than discs.... amd there simoly are no benefits to them besides durability. 

Like I've stated, why compare stuff you found on Amazon if we don't know the true wholesale price that Nintendo would pay... I understand that there are cons to having a gaming ecosystem that uses a card format, but this maybe more of a plus to Nintendo than negative if their initiative is to unite a game production library. Nintendo should definitely try there hardest to get back as much 3rd party support as possible, but they would be fools to put all of their eggs in that basket. 3rd party developers can be fickle at best and at this stage in gaming they wish for the console manufacturers to provide them with some failsafe of paying for exclusive content.