Replace CDs with Cartridges

Current physical media for videogames (CDs) have just become access keys since they still force you to download the game to your system's memory.
Why? Because CD read speeds are too slow compared to HDD and SSD read speeds.
Since we're already raising the price of videogames, how likely are we to see a return of game cartridges, which would basically be small capacity SSDs that would allow you to plug and play games with nothing having to be downloaded to your system, except maybe save files?

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>physical media

Ok boomer

The world now enjoys digital storage. You can have a couple drives sitting inside a desk drawer instead of a wall of shelving holding all the games. We're not going back.

>how likely are we to see a return of game cartridges
The odds for this are negative

my idea (don't fucking steal it) is to make action figures, different characters and poses, with the games and media on them, and you sit them on top of the console in order to play them (don't fucking steal it)

Cartridges will never be back because zoomers won't buy them.
See For them it's all about how others perceive things, without caring about actual quality. Old things are bad, period.

why are people posting in this thread as if cartridges aren't back

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physical media is still a big market
lots of people buy used games and they're so much cheaper. look at any old call of duty game for example, you could pick up the CD for it dirt cheap on any console, but the digital store still has them for full price. Also once you're bored of the game, you can make some bucks selling it again.
also stores WANT to get rid of inventory so they go on sale more often.
plus, if a game runs into issues with copyright or some license runs out, it's delisted forever and you can never buy it digitally again, unless you already bought it, or if you find a physical version.
as for the zoomer market, i would imagine they'd be like "oh cool retro lol" about it anyways

Nintendo always used cartridges. Since they no longer make home consoles (and instead, marketed the Switch as a "hybrid", when it was just a handheld with a dock), they don't use disks anymore.

That Doom cartridge is so aesthetically pleasing

>what is a gamecube, wii and wii U

stupid retard.

dilate

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CD hasn't been used since PS2, dummy.

>disk

Those are SD flash cards, not ROM cartridges, dummy.

Switch cartridges can only hold like 2GB of data since the games are so shitty looking anyways.

>as for the zoomer market, i would imagine they'd be like "oh cool retro lol" about it anyways

Depends on the marketing campaign. If some popular faggot gets paid enough to talk shit about it, it's done before even starting.
We must let go of the way things were, user, only despair awaits to those who think of the past.
The world changed, now it's consume, throw away and forget, then repeat. Physical media will slowly fade into museums and hipster collections, same thing happened with music.

There are 32GB Switch cartridges, with The Witcher 3 being one of them.

>32GB
Sad!
It couldn't even fit a quarter of Modern Warfare on a single cartridge.
You'd need like 6 and then you'd be going back to the stone age of when you needed 8 floppy disks just to play a game on PC.

Because the GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, DS, and 3DS all used disks...

fp regrettably bp

I hate how everything keep getting smaller and more compact. Nothing felt better than slapping one of these badboys into the console and flipping that power switch.

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Modern programmers need to learn how to compress.

>Cartridges
That would just be read-only SSDs considering how large modern games are.

C H O N K

It's becoming a lost art, but one that is so much more needed in this day and age.

One other thing to remember about the old carts is that they could take a beating and keep working, disks can't.

I can drop a micro SD card out a 20th floor window and it'd still probably work.

The real problem is the entire game is downloaded from the the internet. Not the disc. You can have your beta code on a cartridge... You'll still need to download the actual game from the internet. And those servers won't be up forever. All our physical games after about the midpoint of 7th gen are license keys.

It's that they aren't allowed to. Games are intentionally bloated.