SvennoJ said:
Shadow1980 said:
Cartridges are more durable, have no load times, can often save certain data on themselves, and the hardware requires fewer moving parts which makes them more reliable and less prone to failure. The simpler hardware may actually be cheaper to manufacture as well. For the average consumer who wants a purely game-driven experience, a cartridge-based system would likely be the way to go barring all other considerations.
However, discs are much cheaper, and, as far as I'm aware of, ROM carts still might not be able to carry as much data as a Blu-ray disc can. The simple issue of cost, esp. cost per byte of data, has always favored discs, and since the 5th-gen "format wars" were settled not by consumers but rather by developers and publishers, we're likely going to continue sticking with discs due to the significant disparity in manufacturing costs, that is unless the console maker is willing to eat the costs themselves and hope to make up the differences with (possibly) cheaper hardware manufacturing costs. Also, the lack of a disc drive means no ability to play movies or CDs, and with consoles being marketed as having significant non-gaming/multimedia functionality, the lack of a disc drive in a cartridge-based system may or may not be a disincentive to certain consumers. |
It would be nice though. Collecting physical games is starting to become pointless. The original game discs often end up being an inferior or incomplete version of the game, sometimes even with game breaking bugs without a day 1 or futher patch. I'll keep buying physical as long as I can, yet I also realize that while my ps2 games will simply work forever (given the console doesn't break) my DriveClub disk is but a mere shadow of the full game once the patches become unavailable. A fully patched cartridge with all save games, screenshots etc on it would be much nicer to have. HDDs fail sooner or later, the ps2 is now 16 years old, how many ps4's and XBox One's will still be running with the same hdd after 16 years. Will all the patches still be available.
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This wouldn't be a problem if we could backup the game patches Still don't get why Sony/MS won't allow us to do that. I do it all the time with PC. I still play my Battlefield 2 PC game. I have a burnt patch disc, inside the game case. Install game, install patches, run. Gonna have to wait till the systems become abandoned. So that people hack the system files. So we evnetually get the ability to backup the patch files, dlc etc.
