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Barkley on 28 October 2016
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Pyro as Bill said:
1 - Am I being stupid by pointing out that cartridges means games won't need to be installed?

2 - DLC could be added to the cartridge, no?

3 - Cartridges (SD cards in disguise) could be 512GB

4 - Can the current 128GB limit be updated later for 256 and 512?

1. No this is pretty much the only thing of sense you say in this entire thread.

2. I highly doubt that the cartridges will be rewritable, for both cost and security reasons.

3. No.... no they couldn't. Game Cartridges will be 64gb tops, 512gb for storage (even if you're talking multiple micro sd cards) would set you back about £160.... you could get a 3tb HDD for nearly half that.

4. Potentially... as far as I'm aware the larger micro sd cards that currently exist don't require specific hardware, a software update could potentially allow bigger cards, the problem is cost... a 256gb Micro SD will currently set you back £130..... you could get a 4tb HDD for less then that.

 

Pyro as Bill said:
bunchanumbers said:
nowhere near enough. Even if you factor in that most of those games will be rendered at 540p and will have garbage textures, it will still eat through 128GB in no time.

A single cart could hold upto 10x PS4 games @ 50GB/game.

No... it couldn't... there's literally no way a 500gb cartridge will be anywhere near cost effective during the lifespan of the Switch.

Pyro as Bill said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

That userbase will soon be splitting into PS4/PSPro-VR/PS5/XB1/Scorpio/XBVR/PC/PC-VR. 

Lots and lots of timely and costly development, for what? CoD and FIFA in 4K and some kinectywaggle-minigames in VR?

There's so much wrong with this post I don't know where to begin, I don't think I really need to say anything.

Pyro as Bill said:
spemanig said:

Until this news, it was very much still in the cards.

1 - You still have to swap disks on the PS4 and XBone, no?

2 - You do know there was a time when you swapped a game out and it would play instantly without installing? We're going back to those times. I don't get how people can turn 'the end of half day installations' into a negative. There is a reason most people play consoles instead of PCs and this is one of them.

1. No... afaik there is currently NO game on the PS4/XBO that uses multiple disks.

2. I've literally never encountered a situation where I've put a ps4 disk in for the first time and not been able to play it within 30 seconds... half day installations...

Pyro as Bill said:
GTA IV - 16GB
x4
GTA V - 65GB
x4
GTA VI ~ 260GB

That's..... I don't think that's how it works.

Pyro as Bill said:
MW3(2011) - 7.5GB
x17
IW/MWre(2016) - 130GB
x17
CoD(2021) ~ 2,200 GB
45 Bluray disks

Ok.... that's DEFINITELY not how it works.

 

Thank you for the entertaining and bewildering posts... I mean... half day installations.... all your posts in this thread have been entertaining satire. I hope...