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Intrinsic on 04 September 2017
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Soundwave said:

I've never honestly given a shit. I want to play the game, I don't care what the box art is or what the format is once I hit start. However the moment a medium starts to limit what a game can do, that's where I have a problem with it. 

All I know is this bullshit basically handed the entire console market to Sony for essentially no good reason and for that reason I dislike it becoming an issue.

This format nonsense ended the NES/SNES era, and IMO that was the most glorious intersection of great 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party support on any platform, and I will always be a little bitter over that because we will probably never have that ever again. 

Don't agree with the bolded part.....actually don't agree with most of what you said.... even though I agree with your general message.

"This format nonsense" isn't actually nonsense. And you pretty much said it yourself; "starts to limit what a game can do".  And it was soooo not nonsense that as you said also.... albeit in a weird way, ended up handing the console market over to sony.

And that glorious intersection you mentioned..... I like to think I am the sort that would give credit where credit is due. So as I would admit that MS did wonders for onne gaming as far as consoles go, I think its also safe to aknowlegde that when it comes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd party support (especially the third party part) none of the big three can touch playstation consoles. I started off with the snes and nes and all.... and there will always be that soft nostalgic spot for them in my heart, but the PS1 and PS2 did more for gaming than the snes or nes ever did. 

To OP..... how about a third option? Digital? I mean as it stands right now even discs are more like hybrids. Everything is offloaded onto an internal drive even if the disc is in the console. For me I look at discs today as nothing but a delivery medium, which I will only use when I can't use my preferred delivery medium which is the internet.

And I feel an internal drive offers more and bettr of everything that discs or cartridges can offer.... especially when we consider where they are going. Chances are we would be using m.2 SSDs capable of speeds upwards of 2GB/s by the time the next generation of consoles come along. Best of both worlds if you ask me.