Should the PS4 have memory cards like the PS2?

I personally would like it. You wouldnt have to worry about backing up data if your system broke.

And say if you went to a friends house to play his/her ps4, you could bring your memory card to play your saved games instead of your whole system.

EDIT: I see many people saying that the cloud system is best. But you need the internet to connect to it. Not everyone has the internet, I know quite a few that have a ps3 without internet. With Sony reducing the amount of ps3's your psn profile can be on, you cant back data up to the internet, go to a friends house and play that data. Memory cards you could just pick them up and go. Also USB sticks cannot copy data such as game patches/updates, only save data.

Ah, the days of memory cards. Much simpler back then. :)

I doubt Sony would revert back to them since they now have the cloud, but then again if you really wanted a memory card you could just use a flash drive.

Just back up your save data to a thumb drive.

Just back up your save data to a thumb drive.

egger7577

Absolutely not. Hard drive storage with cloud backup is the way to go.

Just back up your save data to a thumb drive.

egger7577

I agree

not all games let us save games on a usb drive tho.

Plus not everyone has internet.

Why would anyone want to go back to those?AcidSoldner

Well, from one view it would be nice to be able to take my Gran Turismo garage with me to a friend's house... They've lost a little bit of sociability, if you will, by going to a strick HDD or cloud system. Right now, if I want to play GT multiplayer it's easier to just play my friends online than to go to their house. And that sucks because there's nothing like in-the-face trash talkin'. As far as I have figured out, I can't just take my garage with me. I liked that about GT3 and GT4.

:)

I wouldn't want to go back to the instability of a PS2 memory card (corrupt data is a ****), but I WOULD enjoy some sort of portability answer to playing your stuff on someone else's machine. If I want to play a game my friend doesn't own he's gotta install it, update or patch it, and then he has a game on his trophy list that he doesn't own, etc etc.

I don't know. I'm against the concept, but for the idea... If that makes any sense.

:lol:

I know. I'm a walking paradox.

lol nah thats the past man...

Cloud storage would make a lot more sense. USB sticks are getting larger all the time, but not hundreds of gigabytes.

I don't think it's coming back.

I personally would like it. You wouldnt have to worry about backing up data if your system broke.

And say if you went to a friends house to play his/her ps4, you could bring your memory card to play your saved games instead of your whole system.

ristactionjakso

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I personally would like it. You wouldnt have to worry about backing up data if your system broke.

And say if you went to a friends house to play his/her ps4, you could bring your memory card to play your saved games instead of your whole system.

nightshade869

no way,I thanked God that they have putted hard drive in the ps3,ah don't remind me of memory cards ,always need to buy a new one because there was no space and can't even backup them on the pc plus a lot of time the memory card break up or data corrupted.

An option to write save file to external storage while playing would be nice or write in both console and external storage at the same time.

I prefer a built-in hard drive.

you have to remember about the cloud storage, it takes internet connection to use it.

There still is a lot of people without internet.

not all games let us save games on a usb drive tho.

Plus not everyone has internet.

ristactionjakso

No, I like my harddrive. And cloud servers can back up your saves if you really want to.

Just back up your save data to a thumb drive.

egger7577

Sony could at least incorparatethe ability to use USB thumbdrives which come in 32GB and 64GB sizes. Since the Playstation 3 didn't have memory cards, PS4 won't but a USB thumbdrive solution could work with just a software update. PS3 allows for limited use of USB sticks now. But not as "memory cards"

yes! absolutely! or atleast give *manual save* as an option in EVERY game, that way u can save whatever in any slot.. hell, on batman ac for example, the only way i could enjoy its new game plus was by literally tricking my ps3, we shouldn't have to do that! auto save is the most annoying, irritating feature ever concieved in gaming.. get rid of it!