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FunFan on 08 September 2016

I know, I know. But here is my "reasoning", or nonsensing if you will:

1. SONY said cartridge is the best format. Well, not really SONY but one of their ex-employees who probably doesn't have anything to do with the company anymore. Referring to cartridges he said to the WSJ: “No doubt today’s best format to physically distribute games,". I don't know what he did at SONY, could had been a janitor, but I bet he is not the only one that believed that.

2. SDD and flash memory technologies are rapidly becoming better, with much higher capacities and their prices are diving. Disk are already kind of archaic.

3. SONY is not pushing UHD Blu-ray disk tech with their new 4K enabled product, the PlayStation 4 Pro. Instead they promoted popular streaming service Netflix in its place. This makes me speculate on the possibility that SONY is no longer favoring their Blu-ray tech and might decrease support for it in the future.

4. The BD movie support is meaningless, as even Sony fans are lately saying that "it's all about the games", Nintendo style. Which bring us to the last reason:

5. Nintendo is doing it. Sony has a tendency of implementing ideas that may have been employed beforehand by Nintendo. Could be a simple coincidence, as we all know these company’s test many different technologies, the odds of favoring a similar one could be pretty high for some reason, maybe. Nintendo didn't invented cartridges anyway.

Regardless, if cartridges hit big time with the NX, I expect the PlayStation 5 to follow suit. Or maybe not.

Edit - Also HDDs are going to be completely replaced by SDDs by the time the PS5 comes out, which im expecting 2019.



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vivster on 08 September 2016

We can all just hope that the scourge that is optical media ends as soon as possible.



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FunFan on 08 September 2016
RolStoppable said:
With phrasing like "I think" and "maybe not", you shouldn't call this a prediction. This is more a case of "I slipped and hit my head on a cupboard, here are my random thoughts of the day."

Anyway, at this point the physical medium for Sony does nothing more than moving games to an HDD, so things like read speed and durability mean basically nothing. It's going to be all about production costs and storage capacity, so Sony won't consider the same factors as Nintendo when determining their next storage medium.

You remind me to add that HDDs are going to be completely replaced by SDDs by the time the PS5 comes out, which im expecting 2019. Thx.



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Teeqoz on 08 September 2016

More likely that it's digital only.



FunFan on 08 September 2016
Teeqoz said:
More likely that it's digital only.

Spemanig said the same thing about the NX. Now is almost time for him to bow down to Rol.



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Teeqoz on 08 September 2016
FunFan said:
Teeqoz said:
More likely that it's digital only.

Spemanig said the same thing about the NX. Now is almost time for him to bow down to Rol.

The PS5 releases a lot later than the NX. I also argued against Spemanig about the NX being digital only. However I'm just saying that it's more likely that it'll be digital only than use cartridges. I'm not sure if it's more likely than discs, but tech is improving fast (as always). PC did the switch to digital only (basically). I expect that to happen with consoles too. Although you might still be able to buy discs that are a "code" that enables you to download a game - just like you can now on PC.



FunFan on 08 September 2016
Teeqoz said:
FunFan said:

Spemanig said the same thing about the NX. Now is almost time for him to bow down to Rol.

The PS5 releases a lot later than the NX. I also argued against Spemanig about the NX being digital only. However I'm just saying that it's more likely that it'll be digital only than use cartridges. I'm not sure if it's more likely than discs, but tech is improving fast (as always). PC did the switch to digital only (basically). I expect that to happen with consoles too. Although you might still be able to buy discs that are a "code" that enables you to download a game - just like you can now on PC.

 Was just teasing you. Digital only is the most possible outcome of course, but I'm banking on retail to still be a thing while flash and SSD tech takes over.



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"Did you guys expected some actual rational fact-based reasoning? ...you should already know I'm all about BS and fraudulence." - FunFan, VGchartz (2016)