Will we ever see the return of catridges?

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"][QUOTE="Androu1"]

Hopefully not...and people say the CDs will die after 20 years? They will lose data?!

That's why it's pretty damned good to have backup ISOs of your favorite games in your hard-drive or som,ething.

Disclaimer:If you have ISOs for games you don't OWN you are doing something pretty illegal and bad!!! Backups are legal and good only for games you DO own!

ThePlothole

No they aren't

Please don't post information that could potentionally cause others to suffer punishment from the law.

Actually, I copyright law itself does allow for exactly one copy for backup purposes, so long as it is destroyed should you give away or sell the original. Of course, this provides that the license agreement also allows for such (games, like almost all software, is of course licensed, NOT sold).

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html

Yes, I know that part.

Some software makers let you make backups for your PC (especially in the days where a game could be on 12-15 disks), no console maker has ever.

As the years go by, people make things smaller and better than the one in the past. For example digital cameras are thin and take great pictures but back then they had these big cameras to take black and white pictures that were hard to carry around. Catridges are big and don't always work perfectly as discs do even though discs are thinner and smaller but more breakable. I don't miss catridges since they had problems playing the game on my N64 and I had to clean and smash into the N64 over and over again cuz it wasn't working.

No disks can hold way more information then any kind of catridge, eventrualy even all the hand helds will use disksEmperorZeruel

Handhelds are one area where I IMO solid state is still more ideal. The problem with disc drives is that they consume a relatively large amount of power, since lasers and especially motors are energy hogs.

Now I suppose this won't be such a problem for the Holographic Cards I mentioned, since at least these factor out the biggest hog (motor).

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]

Sadly, it's a lot cheaper to produce discs rather than cartridges.

Why do I say sadly? Because recent studies have found that after 15 or 20 years, discs start to lose data and become worthless (Don't ask me for a Link because my film teacher taught me it, and I don't know where she got it from). That means that in maybe 15 years I won't be able to play any of my Gamecube games:cry:.

20fox05

Huh? I still have 'The Dig' disc and it was launched like 15 years ago :? (and works)