Game Disks or Game Cartridges on Home Consoles

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Was hoping to see a neither option.

While discs and carts have their pros and cons, i would rather go with discs but not for the reason or way some may think.

If there is one thing carts have got right is that they are using flash storage. And discs have got cheap to manufacture on their side.

But if we are talking about gaming consoles here, then the future lies with nvme M.2 SSD drives. Not only do they have the capacity to store significantly more data than either carts or discs, but since they are based on PCiE lanes they are significantly faster than anything discs or carts could ever hope to be. So they are basically the only storage media that could actually impact how games are made and for the better. Simply put we are talking about data transfer speeds of over 2GB/s.... it will literally bring an end to loading screens and a need for excessively large System OS RAM reserves.

So where do discs come in? I feel discs should serve as nothing more than a distribution medium. Basically you will never play a game off a disc but rather just install it on the internal SSD. Or download the game. Those that want to have a physical copy can still buy the disc (and of course it would have to be in the console for the game to work even tho it's doing nothing but acting as a security marker).