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minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 days agoThey should have moved to USB keys a long time ago. Make them big and call them cartridges if you want, but optical discs are far too slow.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 days agoAnd loud. And fragile. Thumbdrives have a firmware, you could easily make them read-only. And also add your inconvenient DRM snake oil, if you will. But no, cloud promises more $$$ through lock-in.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThumb drives also have very poor retention. If they aren’t used at least every few years the storage becomes corrupted.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 hours agoGameBoy?/Nintendo cardridges also had a small battery.
minus-squarepurplemonkeymad@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoCan you imagine if video game prices were affected by the memory shortages? But is this not how switch1 games were, just read only sdcards with the game on them.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoNintendo loves a cartridge, and goddamnit sticking with them was right.
They should have moved to USB keys a long time ago. Make them big and call them cartridges if you want, but optical discs are far too slow.
And loud. And fragile.
Thumbdrives have a firmware, you could easily make them read-only. And also add your inconvenient DRM snake oil, if you will.
But no, cloud promises more $$$ through lock-in.
Thumb drives also have very poor retention. If they aren’t used at least every few years the storage becomes corrupted.
GameBoy?/Nintendo cardridges also had a small battery.
Can you imagine if video game prices were affected by the memory shortages?
But is this not how switch1 games were, just read only sdcards with the game on them.
Nintendo loves a cartridge, and goddamnit sticking with them was right.