So I was think about it today, and currently to play games on game consoles we have discs. Mainly DVD disc on the Wii, which can hold about 4.7 GB if its not dual layer. On the Xbox We have Dual Layer DVD discs which can hold about 8.5-8.7 GB, And BLU-Ray which can hold anywhere from around 17GB to about 30GB. Now with that being said, how much can flash memory hold? depending on the flash memory, it can hold anywhere from 1Byte to 1TB. But say we made a flash memory cartridge that could be used in the Wii. The manufacturing cost of one DVD disc is about $0.49 Cents per disc (according to Wikipedia) The manufacturing cost of a flash memory cartridge the same size (in memory) is only about $0.27 Cents (according to Wikipedia). So flash memory is cheaper to manufacture than discs. But it not much cheaper only about 20 Cents cheaper. But that adds up. Game companies produce millions of copies of there games. That 20 cents will add up. So with flash memory becoming so dominant in todays storage devices. Do you think we will start seeing game console with cartridge come back?
Nice self-quoting signature.
As for the topic, the future is downloadable games, physical sales will eventually become obsolete.
Which is a damn shame because all downloadable/digital shit will eventually be lost in some catastrophic electromagnetic holocaust or something. Hard copies FTW
This.
I like physical copies, though I mostly just use it for console games. I wouldn’t like ALL games to be download only and I feel like there should at least be a choice.
Cartridges FTW 
I’m not sure whether it’d be good or bad actually. I’d imagine they’d be really different than the SNES/64 cartridges but I don’t know what they’d look like. I’d imagine they’d be pretty small.
I think I’d like to see it happen, if just to see how well it fairs.
Just curious. Aren’t the DSI games basically flash memory cards? Are you wanting to see something like that for consoles?
Which would fry your computer anyway.
Faraday cages FTW 
And yes, very much agreed. It’s amazing how unaware people are of the incredible risk involved with throwing information on computer memory. It doesn’t matter what: just throw your important data on something that isn’t directly manipulated by tiny electrical currents. (DVDs are a nice choice, but hard copies of photos are honestly great things as well). You will thank me when some idiot pisses off the sun or decides to test a nuke in space.
I absolutely hate downloadable movies, I never do it for the simple reason that I like having cases to put on my shelf. It is similar with video games, but not the same. PC distribution by downloading is the way forward, and I do like it alot. On consoles however, I am less convinced. I love displaying the cases, and consoles never have much memory, keep it for the small indie/2-D games please. I have noticed many full retail games being released on the PS store recently, which is good for people to have the choice, but I don’t want it to take over.
I think OnLive-esque gaming is what we have in store for us in the future. Right now OnLive is limited mainly by internet bandwidth, but with fiber optic networks becoming more common and dropping in price, we may be able to play games without downloading the game itself OR suffering a drop in image quality (the latter is a problem I noticed when beta testing onlive several months ago. The games’ graphics were definitely not up to the standard my computer was capable of handling, and the issue wasn’t my 25mbps down/up FiOS line).
The future is, nobody knows how the fucking game was delivered, some genius 300 years ago made it and all we know is how to put the disc in the box that has ancient writing on it.
I wish I could engrave a copy of HL (WON version) into my DNA so someone could download it some day
wat
didn’t know there was petabytes of potential storage space in DNA did you? Something like a hundred million nucleowhatever in every cell which are about 50 million…
So you’re saying the future of storage is in small animals?
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