curl-6 said:
Same here, I actually wonder whether this is a widespread feeling; perhaps the return to carts is a key part of Switch's appeal. Furthermore, I wonder if the results of this poll would be considerably different if I'd conducted it in 2015, before we even knew "NX" would be cart-based. |
Perhaps the love for carts is a result of the frustration with lengthy installs and loading times from discs. Last gen ps3 had notoriously slow installs (mgs4 10 minutes for the next chapter) and while the ps4 has mostly fixed that, xbox one now suffers from slow installs.
That carts are faster was mostly the result of the games on them being much smaller. BotW still has plenty lengthy loading times and the WiiU even outperforms the Switch during the game. For best result carts will also need to be installed as the carts the games come on won't be the more expensive UHS-3 speed class, not the new video speed class. And even at 90 MB/s they only match sequential read speed of a 5400 rpm HDD, while next gen consoles really need to be targeting SSD through Sata 3 at 500 MB/s.
Eurogamer did a test
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-best-microsd-cards-for-switch-loading-time-comparison
Internal storage (fully installing the game) wins, while there is no point buying faster than UHS-1 cards as the Switch doesn't benefit from faster cards. Which means that cartridges sit well below UHS-1 speed class, meaning less than 40 MB/s read speed, less than half of a 5400 rpm hdd.
