Why are we still using discs instead of cartridges?

[DM235]

Ck1x said:

DM235 said:

Cards don't make financial sense, because they cost more money than optical media (even for small memory sizes).

The only reasons I see why they would do it is because of size contraints (if the NX is a microconsole, or a small portable unit, where even something like a UMD would be too big), or because they plan on using the same cartridge between their home console and the handheld.

I don't foresee anyone going back to cartridges just to be "cool".

Game cards make sense if the ecosystem of the NX allows you to simply buy the game once, insert and play either on your handheld or console NX system  (or whatever they end up calling them). 

That is what I just said.  It's still not a very good idea though.  Assuming the home console is more powerful than the handheld, requiring higher capacity cartridges to store the extra textures / data / etc than what would be needed for just the handheld, you would be "losing" money per cartridge for the people who just buy the handheld.  I agree that it would be convenient, but I don't think Nintendo would do this because of the extra costs.