Should next gen kinda do away DISC DRIVES?

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Pemalite said:

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.

I don't think carts will ever be a viable replacement for discs..... r at least not now. Lets not forget that we already have BDXL discs on the market.

You can buy a pack of 2 100GB BDXL RW discs right now from amazon for $14. Thats $7 a piece. And thats talking about rewriting discs and consumer pricing. It wouldn't cost publishers anything more than $3 for the same discs including packaging and distribution. I judt don't see how its possible they get carts down to under $3 for 100GB worth of storage. And if history has shown us anything, they will always choose the cheaper method or distribution unless the form factor of the hardware prevents this from happening.

And lets not forget, game sizs are like to grow by at least 20% next gen.