I'm more just speaking to how you're trying to quote an 8 year old article and posting charts without reading them to try and refute the idea of SD cards being universally a worse idea than HDDs. I mean do a little bit of research before you start trying to shut down everyone.
Ok, not saying their posts are fool proof, BUT SD cards that are of an equivalent price of an optical disc are a universally worse idea. Obviously the more you spend, the better performance, but also the more cost you drive up.
Yeah like DS or 3DS didn't get any 3rd party support....
It also would be a only way to play many big releases on a handheld form. I think you are underestimating how big that would be.
christ. ok let me break it down for you, and explain how using the 3ds to deflect the point is stupid. 3ds games, especially third party ones are usually handheld only, right? so they're games SPECIFICALLY created for 3ds, so obviously they would use carts.
a multiplat game being made by Company A for release in July 2017, Company A have a pipeline to sell it on PS4, XB1 and NX. 3 home consoles. now lets just for posterity say manufacturing a BRD costs 40c. they print 1m copies of PS4 and XB1, that's what $4m dollar cost to print the discs. Carts cost what $2? I'm sure you can do the maths there. Why would a third party, releasing a multi platform game put their game on NX with carts when it costs them a HELL of a lot more just to print it to physical media?
edit: think i fucked up the maths, whatever