Hiku said:
Add the costs of manufacturing, packaging, shipping, logistics, retailers cut, etc, and it adds up to a big chunk of the pie. |
Sure, but that's not relevant to the OP's claim, since he's pushing physical cartridges as replacement to discs.
Drive and discs aren't the major cost (drive ≈ 2 flash carts), it is physical game retail that is cost* for game pubs.
* and more than costs as such, lost sales due to physical 2nd hard market which pure-digital does away with by design.
Nobody will change game format... to another physical format that doesn't do anything else for them (unlike digital).
Nintendo didn't actually change because they already were using carts in portables, which Switch certainly still is.
