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Oh man full circle back to cartridges would be hilarious.

Observe! The ancient dust blowing technique.

Fair points... Guess we will see when the new PS/Xbox hit the market. I hope you're right...

I foresee a future of jail broken PlayStations

To be fair, that future is now. People are already hacking PS5's to turn them into Linux machines

I have some blank floppies I use as coasters. Seriously, though, just changing the physical format the games are distributed on would be a very smart move.

Nintendo not just keeping physical media but going back to cartridges with the Switch and now the Switch 2 has been a fantastic move for them. They increased the price of their console, same as MS and Sony, but it hasn't gone up nearly as much since the system has barely any storage space in it. And it doesn't really need the storage because games don't need to install to compensate for the relatively low optical drive read speeds. Sure, games are the same price or even a bit higher so total cost of ownership after a few years is probably comparable, but the lower buy-in cost has caused them to rapidly gain market share.

When the PS2 released, it was a cheaper blueray player than the current iteration of retail blueray players. People would buy the console just to watch movies.

Tbh, I think Valve needs to design an addon for the Steam Machine that's a blu-ray player that hooks onto the side or bottom, and add support for running blu-rays from Game Mode. It wouldn't require any extra ram or storage, so it wouldn't fluctuate in price but add value

Tbh, I think Valve needs to design an addon for the Steam Machine that’s a blu-ray player that hooks onto the side or bottom

Congratulations, you just invented Sega CD.

I do like physical media, but my gripe about the switch is the damn size of the cartridges.

I got kids and trying to keep track of those itty bitty carts is a constant annoyance. I can't even get them to keep their fucking shoes in the right spot and those are 100x bigger.

I wish they'd consider that, not because they need to be but just for durability and keeping track of them.

And the OG Playstation was a cheap CD player. There's still a cult following for the "audiophile" variant.

The price of RAM makes cartridges unaffordable.

That only works for launch machines that have never been updated though.

Aren’t they going to still sell boxed copies with a digital code inside them? Like what GTA6 is doing.

That gives retailers the ability to have pricing competition, and could result in lower digital prices on PSN too - unless sony prevents them from being sold below their PSN price.

You want $300 games? Cause that’s how you get $300 games lol.

Or they completely understand and are ok with it.

Even less people care about blu-ray movies than care about physical games.

Which surely will be the minority. I don't care either as I don't like consoles. But I like customer rights.