| AsGryffynn said: I'm thinking we might see USB type C proprietary pen drives as the new storage solution. |
maybe, but it'll still need cart like port to be elegent, and the only solution currently fast enough on a USB-C form factor is thunderbolt, which is firmly on intel and apple's side.
There is a fucking reason why the XBSX/S uses a proprietary slot for it.
As for the disc speed argument, while BD goes up to 72Mb/s, that is not NEARLY enough for THIS gen, let alone the upcoming one, i mean it wasn't enough for certain wii U games to function at full capacity.
all in all though I think at least console game devs are going to put in effort to compress games at least a bit again starting this gen, and especially so if they have to move to carts in the next one, so at least games would probably still fit on the smallest common size of 128GB. going lower for the base size might negativly influence price... unless you are nintendo and manage to compress what is effectivly a 8th gen AAA console game enough to fit within a high end first gen iphone...
