I always wondered if game cartridges will make a comeback in gaming. I know it cost developers way more money to make game cartridges than compact discs. However, with the way technology is today, maybe they can create a better developed cartridge that can run more power than CDs.

What do you think?

Lol epic post.

Probably not.

Bolded means this is a joke post?

Anyhoos, I think in the future it's possible for something that is not on a disc to become standard on a console again. It may not be cartridges per se, but may be something like flash memory or whatever is hot nowadays. If anyone would go that direction, it would be Nintendo.

My main gripe is that I don't want to save onto the cartridge. I want an effective saving method that will let me keep the save in the event I don't have the game any longer.

DS has cartridges.

Aside from pointing out everything that's wrong with the OP, I can say that they will never make a comeback in non portable gaming consoles because they are cheaper to make, and therefor will sell for less money, which in turn will equal better sales.

The gaming industry is about making money.

I don't think so, but it seems like handhelds may stick with carts for a while alright. Reduced loading time and better battery life seem to have trumped greater capacity and lower costs this time.

'Cause it'd be impossible for them to have memory cards, hard drives, or flash if there was a cartridge system?

And I don't see what's so funny about the concept of a cartridge that holds more than any of the disc media currently being used. Solid state technology is the future, and where I think things are going to go in the next gen or two.

I never said they couldn't do that. I said I would expect them to so it wouldn't piss me off. If you must know, the DS has no way to save outside of the cartridge and that is our most recent platform dealing in them. If you want the privilige of doing so, you need to buy a Flash cart for it like an R4 and play ROMs of the games.

No. I don't see any realistic possibility of any console going back to cartridges. All gaming for the forseeable future will be disc or memory based like on hard drives or flash memory. The only thing I miss about cartridges were the considerably shorter load times. Pop in a cartridge and it was ready to play nearly that second for the entire game with very few and short pauses.

Not for home consoles but they will remain the standard for portables. It will always be more expensive to make carts than disks.

Its funny Nintendo stuck with cartridges when it should have gone with disks and Sony goes with disks when they should have gone with cartridges.