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With the cartridge days being stuck on life support with the Nintendo DS and the rise of the disk format becoming eminent, which is ultimately your favourite form of game media? The hard as rock cartridges or the storage-friendly disks?

How could you say Cartridges, their expensive and you can't fit as much memory into them.

Cartridges load so much faster and are incredibly hard to damage when compared to CDs. Also, newer, bigger solid state storage is being developed as we speak. While the future may not use cartridges in the way we know them, I firmly believe that solid state memory is the way things will be.

PsychoDuck wrote:Cartridges load so much faster and are incredibly hard to damage when compared to CDs. Also, newer, bigger solid state storage is being developed as we speak. While the future may not use cartridges in the way we know them, I firmly believe that solid state memory is the way things will be.

There so much more expansive for the developers. That's why FF7 and MGS were on the PS1 and not the N64. There is no way in hell that developers would want to spend more money, just to make the game faster.

Cartridge expense was not the only reason for developers abandoning Nintendo in the N64 days. Square left due to Nintendo restricting how many games a developer could release for a console, as well as largely due to Nintendo's strict censorship policies back then.

Not to say cartridges weren't a factor, of course. But they weren't the only factor.

PsychoDuck wrote:Cartridges load so much faster and are incredibly hard to damage when compared to CDs. Also, newer, bigger solid state storage is being developed as we speak. While the future may not use cartridges in the way we know them, I firmly believe that solid state memory is the way things will be.

Anything to stay away from those awful UMDs. Although I think Guitar Hero: On Tour could've benefitted from extra storage for songs, it's probably the only guitar hero without load times.

I really do hope that we get a more durable data storage solution, as I have a small scratch on my Twilight Princess disc (don't know where it came from), leaving Castle Town inaccessible (I always get this disk read error). I haven't played the game in months because I'm too cheap to buy a new disk and I just don't want to risk trying out the toothpaste and peanut butter trick just yet. Seriously, we shouldn't have to do this stuff.

Although there is an advantage with disks. It teaches us to take care of our games.

Personally I prefer disks currently since they can store a lot of stuff. But the DS has shown that Catridges are still going strong.

On portables, it's probably better to use catridges because they are more portable than disks. And if you are going to lug around a set of disks to play games they can easily get damaged. But on home consoles, disks are definitely better.

Well, for now, I shall remain impartial, since they both have their pros and cons, and let the bigwigs decide and the Big N, Sony, and M$.