TheBraveGallade said:
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... |
I was going to use the notion you install those since Type C is fast enough for rapid installation and deletion, though this does make one think what would happen on the inside of memory modules given they can't take that many read/write cycles.
OTOH, Thunderbolt is pretty much as Intel as x64: AMD does have mobo packages with Thunderbolt support, albeit very few due to the technology being unusual: more than Thunderbolt becoming the standard, it's more likely we will see the return of "Truly Express" PCIE enabled SSDs that you do slot in to the console like a USB... minus the proprietary rubbish MS is pushing (for the record, this kind of stuff almost always ends with several third party versions available. Also, mind the fact drives managing high speed data transfer are known for being expensive, so the MemCard they offer is fairly par the course).
