The Sega Genesis had downloadable games over something called the “Sega Channel”. It was a cartridge you stuck in your Genesis that had a cable jack on it.
And this was in 1994.
Consoles are great for what they are. I’m not going to diss 'em. 
EDIT: The Sega Channel wasn’t technically “downloadable” games. It was more like streaming games. The game would exist in the “cartridge” adapter until you reset the system or shut off the console, then you’d have to stream again.
The electro magnetic holocaust will destroy all physical media. It doesn’t matter whether we own hard copies of things or it’s all stored on a server. We’re all fucked if it happens regardless.
And Sega Channel was damned awesome. Sega were always ahead of their time.
Just printout the binary code on a giant scroll.
Then in the future people will forget how to binary and base their religion on the random patterns.
Concerning the OP, the cost of flash memory is one thing, but packaging that thing in plastic (or whatever) is another.
However, the cost of flash memory probably drops much faster, since it’s in constant evolution, whereas discs just evolve generation by generation (cd -> dvd -> dvd dual layer -> blu-ray). So in the long-term, I guess it would make sense.
Plus: much faster and no moving parts -> less crap breaking.
If everything in gaming goes digital, I will quit gaming. I cannot watch and see what could happen to my potental future games being lined to death with DRM and at the mercy of being erased with no way to get them back also what happens if the authorization servers go down? Its a disaster waiting to happen and i darn well hope consumers will experience that. Then they’ll see.
I refer to just about any electronic related fanboyism as fag. I call my self a pc fag. I call others mac fags. It’s not so much console hate as it is making fun of fanboys in general including myself.
Whatever, it still makes you come off as immature and annoying. People won’t take your post as seriously that way.
There are serious posts on this forum?
That’s new.
Occasionally yeah.
Cartridges are useless except for the joy of looking at them. I have 3 computers for the reason of saftey and losing info. One computer has online out of the three. I keep all my online games on it and some single player games along with music. On my second computer I keep a back up of everything on thier including online website URLs and passwords - offline and unplugged until use for saftey. My third computer has all my single player game backed up and a lot of private work - plugged in but offline.
My online pc has a nice firewall with addware protection, avast, and 4 more custom made things to keep me protected.
Thing is, I have to put one thing on a computer, and then put it on the other two. It’s a pain in the ass, but I never get worried about losing stuff or getting a virus. All I have to do is take the internet out of the main one, then put it in the second one and it’s like nothing every happened. During that time of leasure, I fix my broken one. I’m ideal, ^^
Occasionally I make a good thread too…
Very rarely.
Ah, yes! The Genesis was awesome. I still have mine- It’s older than me and it still works. It’s practically the AK of the 4th Gen consoles. I’ve still got 20+ games for it on my bookshelf with my other games, and I still hook it up once in a while and play Rocket Knight Adventures and other such classics.
One of these days I need to get around to playing Phantasy Star II to it’s conclusion, but the damn game is ball-bustingly hard.
Also equals 20X faster loading times
Are you out of your mind? Secomed never made a remotely sense making post, let alone thread.
The whole no-moving parts to not break is a bit rubbish with USB drives, if you knock them up or down when they’re plugged in they can break quite easily.
Meh, I bent my mp3 player that way (by accidentally stepping on it while it was plugged in) and it still works. You scratch a DVD and it’s gone, man.
Awesome game!
Also, flash memory is deleted if left without power for a long time; it’s not permanent. Get a DVD (or rocket knight adventures) out the loft after 10 years and it works as good as new
I have personally seen a usb dongle break permanently in this way 5 times.
Not once it was my fault.
Sounds painful. I’d hate to bend my dongle.
Bluray is the only type of physical media I can imagine working (in terms of gaming / consoles) in the future; bigger and better storage with the convenience of the well-established DVD. :3
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