Which do you prefer?

And if you prefer cartridges, do you think they should be brought back? 

I prefer cartridges, I also prefer tape cassettes to cd's/digital and VHS to dvd

I love the old cartridges but CDs and DVDs just have to many advanteges over the... no chance in hell that they will ever come back...

Disc is the way to go until you can get a Cartridge of equal size for the same cost. CD/DVD's are easy to store, cheap to produce, and offer heaps of space.

Carts certainly have advantages but their disadvantages in todays market make them an unlikely medium for gaming.


Pros for Carts:
Speed - Load times are basically gone.
Durability - They tend to last longer than discs and disc drives.
Writable - Save to cart, roster updates, patches, downloadable content, etc...would all work very well on a cart.
Storage/portability - They tend to be smaller for easier storage and transport.

Cons for Carts:
Cost - They cost a lot more to manufacture than discs.
Capacity - While getting better with the advent of flash drives, disc capacity is also growing and with HD gaming, it's required.


While the pros are good, the cons hurt them greatly. If there was a means to remove those 2 hurdles, carts (as flash drives) would make a serious comeback.

CD/DVD I just wish they were made out of better material something that doesn't get scratches and not as easy to snap in two. Cartridges have one major advantage and that's speed something I like about DS and it does support up to 2GB cartridge (I believe its 2GB I know it's some odd GB amount) though in 40 years I see things could turn back the other way, cause hard drives are reaching their max storage now and Solid State Drives will be able to hold more, use less energy, and not give off as much heat, which is a similar tech though no where near the same in practice, but saying in 40 years time cartridge tech could be on the cost level of disks and also hold more on them.

Optical media for home consoles, cartridges for handhelds.

Maxwell, it's 2 Gb's or ~256 MB. Don't trust gaming media sites, they tend to get their GB's and Gb's mixed up rather easily.

I prefer carts... A cart is much harder to damage then a disc and offers much greater bandwidth and low latency. I'd much prefer if the consoles still used carts. Although I'd prefer digital downloads over either format any day of the week.

None of the above. I pick Blu Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as for handhelds, i pick cartridges. Quick load times = more time playing.

UMD is slow as f**k. they need new media for PSP2.