I would love it if it were true, and cartridges did make a comeback. That said there is a VERRRRRRY minuscule chance of it happening do to it being more expensive for the developers. I don't even care if it costs cents more, in an age where Capcom, Atlus, ect are struggling for finances to develop games (and those are the lucky ones that haven't outright went under), I just don't see it happening.

Download only is where we will be very soon, and there is no practical reason not to in 99.9999999% of cases (the only exception is for people who live in underdeveloped countries that don't have proper access to internet... Yet somehow they have access and funds to buy a PS5, ect.

If they buy in bulk, it would be feisable. In time, these things will cost little to nothing.

Differnce would probably be like a few dollars at most.... theres no reason cartridges would have to cost all that much even for 64gb variants.

Sure its many times more than what a bluray disc costs, and yes you sell a game at 60$, you make 2-3 bucks less if its sold on cartridge, dont think developers will care (any extra sales is good for them, as is the profits).

3DS carts max at 8GB. 99% never come close to that. Obviously they'd be cheaper.

It ended up being $40, and then they proceeded to not port over the sequel even though the 3DS version of the original sold the best. I wonder why.

Capcom considered raising the price of a game by 20% because of a 2GB difference in card size, but 64GB games will be fine at $60. Only in a dream land. BR discs can be purchased at like $.50 to consumers. 64GB cards are $8. That difference will never fly with devs. Ever.

It doesn't matter if most devs will fit their games on smaller cards. The ones that matter, the ones that run businesses selling tens of millions of big budget games every year, are going to need 64GB, and they are not going to deal with that sort of price difference.

I prefer Cartridges because you can save directly on them and they load faster

But CDs/Blurays etc are easier and cheaper to produce, and with the digital age, it is seeming really unlikely..

Discs cost cents by comparison, if that, so a few dollars is a massive difference in cost. Capcom nearly raised the price of their game $10 because they needed a 4GB cart. SMT4 was $50 because they needed a bigger cart. So was Persona Q, and that only released this past fall. Because of a 2GB difference.

That problem increases exponentially when you're dealing with 64gb carts instead of 4GB carts, and devs aren't going to deal with that because, unlike on the 3DS where those games were exclusive and in a bubble, people are not going $70+ for an NX game that is $60 on the PS4/XBO. If consumers won't buy it, devs won't sell it, which meants they wouldn't support the NX, which means the NX would loose 3rd party just like the N64 for the same reasons etc, etc.

So yes, they do care, and they won't work with it. And they won't have to, because Nintendo isn't stupid enough to do it.

Not in their conventional(SNES, N64, Genesis, NES) form, zero chance. Too expensive, too limited in storage, too many restrictions on production. The audio on todays games wouldn't even fit on the biggest Nintendo 64 cartridge(Resident Evil II from memory, at 64MB).

I do miss the feeling of loading up a cartridge though. The Nintendo 64 was just a well built console in general. I have a brand new Jaguar that I haven't un-boxed yet so I can relive the cartridge experience once again :P

I don't think the unit cost of a cartridge type device has dropped sufficiently to make it worth making the switch. If you can get a 60GB cartridge down to less than $1 in cost then I suppose it could be viable. But how far away is that? I doubt it would be in time for a 9th gen console, so 10th gen at the earliest, and by that time I think digital sales on console might be pretty much at a similar level to PC.

I can see Nintendo going back. If the NX is a unified handheld + console then having carts will make it more possible. However we know so little about NX that it could probably be a toaster that plays games. As for the other two. No. Sony helped made Blu-ray and they probably get a good deal by making a console based on it. MS will probably use discs because why not?

It sold nearly a million. If they didn't have to eat profits because of larger carts, they would likely have.

It doesn't matter if they're cheaper. It's obviously not cheap enough to make Atlus chart $10 extra for them. It's not just the US. It's Japan, too. SMTIV can be cheaper in Europe because it came out well over a year after both platforms, and released digital only, circumventing the need to have price parity with an expensive cart. That and the fact that Atlus cames sell like dog shit in europe makes it clear why they'd cut the price on their games there. It has nothing to do with America.

All those other reasons are none existent. When Nintendo makes good hardware with no caveats, they'll be supported. They haven't in 20 years, so they haven't been supported. It would be better for those businesses, because it wouldn't shaft any significant amount of consumers. 99% of those cosumers would get over it and make the digital switch with glee just like they've already done in literally every other form of media they've owned in the last 7-8 years.