Should next gen kinda do away DISC DRIVES?

[Pyro as Bill]

Intrinsic said:

etking said:

With sd cards and flash memory getting larger and more affordable there is no need for anything else. It is also one of the fastest possible types of memory if implemented in the right way. Why waste space for a HDD or drive if the same amout of memory fits into a SD or micro SD card, in the future even for a lower price.

Cardridges are the fastest possible storage, faster than any HDD or optical media could ever be. And production costs will soon be lower too.

There is a lot of wrong here.....

Yes catridges are faster than HDDs, but I doubt HDDs are whatthe next consoles are going to use. Its not just about SSDs (be it in ttheir sata or m.2 formats) being better all round (espeicially better than any catridge will ever be) but its that the industry in general is shifting away from mechanical drives which in turn will bring the price of SSDs down.

Two things here are a given, its always going to be cheaper to cut games to a disc especially when you are looking at games that are 50GB+ in size than putting that same game on a cart. And secondly, if you look at what the likely storage options to replace HDDs are, they are both significantly faster than carts.

And have you seen the size of an m.2 SSD? Its literally the size of a chewing gum, has no capacity limitations and offers transfer speeds higher than 2.5GB/s. Opting to go with carts would be the single biggest mistake sony/Ms can make. Especially when you consider that come next gen all their games will be built for 4k natively. A $1 disk that can store 100GB would always be better than a $10 cart that stores the same amount. More so when they know every console has an internal drive. Even the switch has an internal drive/storage and it uses carts.

Carts + m.2 SSD internal >>>>> disks + m.2 SSD internal

You need a way to get the game from the store and install to/play on the console. Carts can play at good speeds without installation, you could still install them to SSD for faster speeds.