WSJ: Nintendo’s New NX Console to Go Retro With Videogame Cartridges

[Kagerow]

Augen said:

shikamaru317 said:

"Cartridges also allow games to load faster, are harder to copy and can be mass-produced faster than discs, they said."

I agree with the first 2 points, but I'm confused as to how cartridges can be mass produced faster. You have to actaully mass produce circuit boards to go inside each cartridge, whereas you can burn files to discs quickly and easily. 

On loading I find it depends as have some games on PSV and PS4 and the PSV version has longer loading times despite being on cartridge format.  If Nintendo can bring back SNES level of loading be a nice positive to me as hated loading screens since PS1 era.

That would be compression's fault. Even lots of games in PS4 uses most memory on uncompressed sound, video, and image (texture) data.

Compressing texture tends to end in heavy loading depending on how much compression it got.

 

Also, for people worrying about Day 1 patch. If this new cartridges are not read only - doesn't lots of day 1 patch contents is about rewriting existing data?