L.A. Noire will cost more on Switch than Ps4 and Xbox One

[Nuvendil]

fatslob-:O said:

Nuvendil said:

Blue Rays at the time did cost dollars more.  It was still not prohibitive.  Btu this is not the same situation either.  These are NOT comparable to the N64 Game Pak.  They are just flash chips.  They are not even that fast or that high capacity.  They are not prohibitively expensive.

Blu-rays only costed a little over twice of what it took to press a DVD disc. It was the player that was expensive, not so much the format itself ... 

What's so different about the N64 game Paks to Switch carts ? Both use flash technology ... 

You still need to use and process silicon from a semiconductor foundry to create flash cards while the same material used for a blu-rays substrate is the same material used in DVD or CD substrates which is a polycarbonate ... 

The biggest difference is speed.  The Switch Game Card is a touch slower than the internal NAND on Switch, so just a bit bellow a 5200 RPM hard drive that is found in the PS4 and Xbone.  Not slow, but not particularly fast either.  The N64 Game Pak on the other hand was exceptionally fast relative to its day.  They were so fast, data could be streamed from the Game Pak in real-time as if it were simply normal RAM.  That's a ludicrous notion and something the Game Card comes nowhere near to.  So one is using run of the mill flash memory, the other was  leading edge. 

Second difference is added components for writable storage.  The Game Card format just has an extra little chip for that.  But Switch game cards don't even have that, only DS and 3DS do.  The Game Pak had EEPROM, another Flash chip, or in numerous instances battery backed up RAM.  And the size of the Game Pak further increases its costs in materials.