Skittzo0413
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Did you seriously use 8GB SD cards with shitty bandwidth to make a point? For cartridges to have an advantage against installing from a disc onto an HDD like PS4/XB1 on a CONSOLE like the NX, you'd need both higher density and higher speeds than that. And that's REALLY expensive.
No one is saying it will be faster than PS4/XB1 installs, just faster than BRD speed read which is 100% the case even with 3DS 8GB cards.
And again, my point isn't about the size, it's about the fact that 8GB cards are much more expensive to manufacture than 50GB BRDs, yet retail for $20 less.
This proves conclusively that manufacturing cost of the media is not a major factor in MSRP as people seem to be thinking. That's all I'm saying.
Current gen consoles don't read from disc to run games. They're all installed to internal storage, which is much faster than all of those.
The major argument people are making here is that cards will not require those installs at all since they are MUCH faster than disc read speeds, meaning you won't need 1TB hard drives. It might be a bit slower than installs, but it's much faster than disc reading.