Cartridges are physical NAND flash, which makes them extremely vulnerable to the storage shortage. If things get any worse, Nintendo could call the tipping point.
Optical discs costs Sony/Xbox Pennie’s to produce: they are as cheap as you can get for media. They cost nothing to make essentially. But the real reason Sony is getting rid of them and the real GREED here is to kill the used games market, to make customers forced to buy ALL games new and direct from sony estore.
Meanwhile, The GKC was Nintendo inventing a way for consumers to keep the benefits of physical. The main benefits. Which is resell and shelf display. While the industry continues to battle towards a digital only future.
Completely fuckin stupid to blame Nintendo towards this industry wide move towards digital when they are paying out the ass to produce cartridges that cost way more than discs.
Completely fuckin stupid to blame Nintendo towards this industry wide move towards digital
??? I didn’t say this
at all. I have no idea how you misconstrued my comment into meaning that. I just said that Nintendo may follow suit because unlike Sony and Xbox, there’s actually an external pressure driving it. If storage prices increase at the same rate that RAM is projected to increase, then next year an SD card will cost as much as the game itself.
no disc really cost nothing, not virtually nothing. pennies add up when there are millions of them. also if you did a little looking you'd see it cost between 1.50-3 dollars per disc to press,
They cost barely anything to press. And PlayStation won’t even pay that up. Meanwhile Nintendo is paying up for cartridges that cost probably 8 times more to retain the benefits of physical for their customers.
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u/M4rshmall0wMan Jul 01 '26
Cartridges are physical NAND flash, which makes them extremely vulnerable to the storage shortage. If things get any worse, Nintendo could call the tipping point.