Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[Conina]

Pemalite said:

The interesting thing with the Xbox Series X/Xbox Series S is if Microsoft ever wanted to ditch blu-ray media for one reason or another and retain physical media... They have a very convenient high-speed cartridge slot, so if ROM ever manages to match NAND in a cost/performance basis, Microsoft can produce carts and be automagically be compatible from the get-go.

It also means that potentially the Xbox Series S may not always be a digital-only console.

That reminds me: the Commodore 64 supported cassettes, floppy disks and cartridges. Some games were even available for all three formats... crazy.

Last edited by Conina - on 20 October 2020