“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • WagesOf
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    11 year ago

    30 second search at 100gb (modern AAA games and the biggest Bluray)

    Bluray is $10 a disc, microsd is $8 and you get 128gb and can get bigger media, which doesn’t exist for Bluray.

    That doesn’t account for mass production, fewer people care about physical media with every passing year.

    Physical media will still exist, but it won’t be optical. Opticals advantages over cart just don’t exist anymore. You don’t include a $80+ part on the bom when less than 5% of your users want it and that 5% can get a bog standard usb device that can be had for $10

    • SaltySalamander
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      1 year ago

      MicroSD is not comparable to the flash memory on NVME SSDs.

      Bluray is $10 a disc

      Bluray hasn’t been $10 a disc since maybe 2003. Bluray discs are literally pennies to a manufacturer like Sony.

      • WagesOf
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        21 year ago

        Nobody said it was. It’s a medium to get games from a brick and mortar store to install onto the nvme on the console you can’t play modern games directly from Bluray either.

    • deetz
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      Its incredibly niave to think it costs Sony, co-developer of blu-ray, $10 to press a game onto a blu-ray disc. Its probably costs a dollar or less to manufacturer a disc by bow. They can sell blurray movies for $9.99 and still profit.

      It will definitely be cheaper for Sony to stick with optical discs next gen if they don’t drop the drive entirely.

      • WagesOf
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        11 year ago

        It’s also dumb to expect they’ll be paying retail for microsd or whatever usb flash sticks they decive to use.