Should next gen kinda do away DISC DRIVES?

[Pemalite]

Mr Puggsly said:

StarOcean said:
Get rid of them. Discs are one of the worst things introduced to gaming. Theyre weak and easily broken. Either keep it cartridge based like Nintendo or do full digital

While I would like all games on carts, its also more expensive to do that and games are already taking up 40GB - 50GB fairly regularly.

We don't want games limiting content/quality because it couldn't fit on the cheaper/smaller cart. Which happened often on cart based consoles.

Today is a little different compared to the Nintendo 64 era though.

ROM can economically hit 32-64GB... Verses Blu-Ray which is about 50GB for a dual layer disc.
Where as the N64 days the largest carts were 64MB verses CD's 600-700MB.

NAND, ROM and other forms of storage have made great strides in the last decade, by next generation they will be even better.

Expense is a bit of an issue, but considering companies are testing the waters with higher game prices (In the face of ever-increasing profits mind you!) then I think they can eat a bit of the profit anyway, heck they don't even bother to give us game manuals anymore.