GanonSlayr
Vermin Supreme 2012!!!
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- Feb 11, 2011
I like cartridges just cause of the clock they make when put into a system! (is that weird...?)
Which is exactly what I said. Currently disks have a better cost for what they can have on them. Once flash memory is cheap enough to surpass that, they'll switch back to cartridges exactly because of this greed. It'll be cheaper to produce at that point. Hypothetically speaking, say that a disk and a cartridge cost the same to produce, which they will at one point, except for the fact that the cartridge can hold five times as much data as the disk. Economically since they're there same cost per unit otherwise, it'll be cheaper to use the cartridge because one cartridge would be cheaper than five disks. This will be the case in reality eventually. We are reaching the physical limit of what optical disks can possibly hold. The Blu-ray based format that they're all switching to is about all they're ever going to hold. Squeezing anymore out of them will be more and more expensive. Flash memory though, we're a very long way from reaching the limit on. As the capacity we can reach on them increases, the unit cost of flash memory will decrease. That is why 1 GB flash drives that were $60 to $80 eight years ago are now $10 or less. Even that though is still too expensive yet, but it'll get there. The movie industry is actually already dabbling into it already. Some blu-ray players can play movies directly from flash memory cards. Usually these are the digital copies of movies, common now, manually saved to the cards. This very fact tells you that it's the way of the future.Cartridges are better than discs for gamers, but there's a reason we won't see them return any time soon.
For one thing, pressing discs is faster and cheaper for the video game company than producing equivalent sized cartridges. They're more likely to be broken, which means you have to buy a replacement disc eventually. Also, it's supposedly easier for programmers to design for discs.
Essentially, discs were chosen not because they're a better medium for the consumer, but because they're cheaper and more convenient for the gaming companies. It's simple economics and corporate greed at work.
I don't really care one way or another.
Although I have to admit that I would lean slightly more towards discs, simply because i'm more motivated to put them in a safe place when they're not in use. Cartridges just get tossed into a drawer, while they might be sturdier they can be a pain to clean out when they get dusty.
I will admit that discs are much more efficient in lasting forever and not malfunctioning nearly as much, but.....
I voted for cartridges, purely for the sake of nostalgia. I also prefer VHS tapes over DVDs due to the same reason. They're inefficient to today's standards, but I grew up with them, and that's why I like them. Who remembers blowing constantly on our N64 games in an attempt to make them work?
Plus...cartridges were on the Magnavox Odyssey (which was the first ever home video game console made in 1972). So, cartridges were around for nearly 30 years. I'm pretty sure we'll have virtual reality before discs become as old as cartridges.
Which is exactly what I said. Currently disks have a better cost for what they can have on them. Once flash memory is cheap enough to surpass that, they'll switch back to cartridges exactly because of this greed. It'll be cheaper to produce at that point. Hypothetically speaking, say that a disk and a cartridge cost the same to produce, which they will at one point, except for the fact that the cartridge can hold five times as much data as the disk. Economically since they're there same cost per unit otherwise, it'll be cheaper to use the cartridge because one cartridge would be cheaper than five disks. This will be the case in reality eventually. We are reaching the physical limit of what optical disks can possibly hold. The Blu-ray based format that they're all switching to is about all they're ever going to hold. Squeezing anymore out of them will be more and more expensive. Flash memory though, we're a very long way from reaching the limit on. As the capacity we can reach on them increases, the unit cost of flash memory will decrease. That is why 1 GB flash drives that were $60 to $80 eight years ago are now $10 or less. Even that though is still too expensive yet, but it'll get there. The movie industry is actually already dabbling into it already. Some blu-ray players can play movies directly from flash memory cards. Usually these are the digital copies of movies, common now, manually saved to the cards. This very fact tells you that it's the way of the future.
FALSE, gaming companies will NEVER go back to cartrridges. This will even be true even if it would cost a company almost nothting to make a cartridge. A cartridge is really sturdy, and extremelly difficult to break, except by doing stupid actions. Disks on the other hand can be broken, scratched, crack, or damaged in many different ways, admit it, we live in a world where items in general aren't designed to last. An average person would just go buy a new disk if theirs broke, or got scratched, which would produce more revenu for the gaming companies. The only way they could benifit for going back to cartridges would be if they made them less sturdier. Even if they could produced a cartridge for less, they would be less likely to break and would actually cost gaming companies money.