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Soundwave on 27 October 2016
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Pyro as Bill said:
Soundwave said:

Eh, that seems like a pretty extreme setup, and people complained that Vita memory cards added too much to the cost, lol. 

To be honest I don't think this will be as big of an issue because a lot of those mega-huge AAA type third party games are not going to be on the NS anyway.

So if its mostly Nintendo games, 3DS developers, and Japanese devs, along with lower-scale Western games ... a standard memory card should be OK. 

How big would a PS4/XBone HD have to be if you didn't have to install every game?

PS4/XBone has to install the game and still needs to have the disk. Cartridges don't need to install. The cartridge itself is a hard drive.

What happens when games are 512gb? How does MS/Sony manage? Disks are dead now. Digital has killed Sony's physical media. It's going to take 10 disks or they're going to have to start using 'carts' if they don't want week long installation times.

Disks aren't better than cartridge anymore.

The cartridge is striking back.

That's great and all, but I think the more realistic reality is most Western devs anyway are not even going to bother making their "big" games so the whole debate is kinda moot. 

Devs have a huge userbase between the PS4/XB1/PC ... having to make a "special" version just for the NS which is 1/3 the size and running on a processor that honestly is maybe half an XBox One (at best) is going to be a "thanks, but no thanks" for a lot of devs.