Global Hardware 11 January 2020

[Barkley]

Nu-13 said:

Alcyon said:

They will probably cut the price just before or after the launch of the PS5/new XBox. For the games, the cartridges are more expensive than DVDs and they don't want to push the digital market by making them cheaper.

The competition uses blurays and by now a 16gb cartridge costs he same as a 25gb bluray disc.

PS4/XBO blurays are 50gb, back in 2017 an 8gb card was about on par with the PS4's blurays in terms of costs. So yeah, by now hopefully costs have reduced and a 16gb is now about parity with the PS4/XBO's discs, though I've found literally no recent information about cartridge costs, so that's just speculation.

Your game needs to be less than 8GB (because 8GB carts are cheaper) if you want to make the same margin as PS4/XB1 Blu-Ray disc.

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