As great as games have been in the past 7 years, CD' s, DVD' s and Blu-Ray just don' t do it for me. I want carts back!

yeah my Shadowrun is scratched and I actually paid for that one!

crats had a certain charm, at the expesnisve of our collective wallets... 8megs FTW!

yeah my Shadowrun is scratched and I actually paid for that one!

If i were you I would either swap it with a rental or pull a walmart switcharooo

No PS3 Bl00-ray disc can compare to the might of the 8 Mega Power of Sega carts. And let' s not forget Neo Geo cartridges... they were bigger than your house!

Just because of this I' ve decided to put off the much needed cleaning & play a round of Super Mario 64.

You' ll still have to clean the cart though. I always have to blow before I go.....

I think eventually we will end up back at a cartridge like form for games. Solid state memory is advancing quite quickly, with solid state hard drives now getting beyond 160GB. While they still aren' t in the price range of mortal people, give it few years time and market saturation should get the prices to acceptable levels.

Either that or it' ll be all digital distribution but realistically I don' t think the bandwidth capabilities are there yet.

I too loved the good old days where if your cartridge didn' t work, you simply blow air onto cart and presto it worked again!

Blowing on cartridges really isn' t a great idea. Your breath has lots o' moisture. Moisture=bad for carts. If a cart isn' t working when you turn on the power, try re-orientating it' s position in the cartridge slot and flip the power on again. If that doesn' t work, clean the cartridge contacts (and slot) with sandpaper.

I think it would be really cool to go back to solid state as well, if only for obscene data transfer rates. It would be easy to have a 16GB card, or whatever size the game needs. The only problem is making them cheap enough. They would make piracy much more difficult so maybe the industry wouldn' t mind the added cost.

Majik did you get a damaged 360 disc?

I think in the future when everyone has high speed internet, they should make it where you buy games like you do on XBLA

You' d need massive 1TB+ HDDs as well as far more than fiberoptic connection. We' re not there yet. Maybe in 15-20 years though.

I' m a big fan of solid state. For the most part they' re quite idiot-proof.

I think with the current technology, and a lot of component cost reduction it' d be a pretty safe way to go.

Blowing on cartridges really isn' t a great idea. Your breath has lots o' moisture. Moisture=bad for carts. If a cart isn' t working when you turn on the power, try re-orientating it' s position in the cartridge slot and flip the power on again. If that doesn' t work, clean the cartridge contacts (and slot) with sandpaper.

It' s not about getting the game to work, it' s about the experience. I keep a copy of the Tiny-Toons game around just so I have something to blow the dust out of when I get retro-lonely.

I' m not a big fan of downloading games and not having a physical copy (unless it' s free), but I am a fan of solid state memory... no moving parts, save feature built right in with no battery to die. I agree we' re not quite there yet, but having all memory in a game instantly accessible would open up many new gameplay possibilities. Loading from discs? Teh ghey.

You can buy games via download. You can do it on Steam and other places too. Most of the time with PC games when you install the whole game ends up on your hard-drive anyways.
10 mbs internet is fairly common now days, you could download a 4GB game in a little over an hour with that. Fiber optics used in South Korea and the likes are ten times faster than that.
320 GB hard drives are sold for less than $100.

I think next gen consoles will have online distribution for games, maybe have options to use optical media too, but you' ll definitely be able to download the games straight to your hard-drive.

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Majik did you get a damaged 360 disc?

Nah, i just don' t like discs.

I love Mini Discs and UMD' s! Hate me all you want, I will not hide my love

As great as games have been in the past 7 years, CD' s, DVD' s and Blu-Ray just don' t do it for me. I want carts back!

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We need more carts!!! It would sure as hell save us having to dish out on memory cards or SD cards every so often.

Plus, it' s a lot more satisfying to rip the cartridges out of the console, in my opinion.

We need more carts!!! It would sure as hell save us having to dish out on memory cards or SD cards every so often.

Plus, it' s a lot more satisfying to rip the cartridges out of the console.

SPam.

I never want to see the day when every thing is downloaded. Downloading is way more hassle than just getting a real copy..