Cartridges or optical discs?

[dharh]

VGPolyglot said:

SvennoJ said:
I prefer discs.

Cartridges are too small, CDs are much easier to handle and keep track off.
Why pay more for the storage if you can't even put a decent picture on the postage stamp.
Loading times are irrelevant as HDDs are faster than (affordable) cartridges anyway.
CD / DVD / Blu-ray / UHD can all be read by the same reader, cartridges are not backwards compatible.

I thought the PS4 couldn't read CDs?

If SONY wanted to they could upgrade the firmware to make it so.  Although SONY and Philips are joint creators of the CD-DA format I believe SONY would have to pay Philips a certain amount per PS4 out there to do this (its probably pennies per though), though I am no expert.  However, I suspect the real reason for not wasting time paying for licensing and put time into making the software is that Audio CD's are at this point antiquated to the point that _new_ hardware is not necessary.  Music Streaming has almost completely taken over.