A history of cartridges in gaming that makes you think

A history of cartridges in gaming that makes you think

Fun facts, the NES carts were only so big because they wanted to disguise the fact that it was a videogame console from weary consumers. Same with the NES looking like a slot-loading VCR.

Pretty sure anyone on Sup Forums would know this. Most of the toaster NES is fluff, as evidenced by the Famicom and NES2.

There's a lot of noobs on here. Kids need to learn their history.

Gameboy Advance is the best
Good to hold and looks snappy

There's something god tier about Gameboy color cartridges

I guess data compression has gotten better over the years.

how much do the switch carts hold anyway?

aren't we forgetting someone?

It was cool though.
They need this shit next gen when they go with flash instead of optical.
Hey man did you know?
Squirtle = squirrel + turtle XDDDD

Wow Switch cartridges are teeny

Up to 64 GB at what I assume are different price points for developers. I doubt you could make a profit on AAA garbage with the 32.

No.
It's just flash memory surpassed optical.
Filesize is drastically bigger.

I forgot vita uses cartridges.

I don't own a single physical vita game

Yes exactly, it's forgotten

Pleb.
Vita is best system to go physical for.
Fuck, the bomb cost on those must be huge.

Why?

They weren't very big in reality. Old cartridges are more like a computer part that's being easily plugged in and removed from the system, it's more than just data storage like the SD cards since the DS. That's why the load times were so fast but they're not going to be very fast on Switch. Faster than optical at least.

A triple A dev sees something like 4 to 7 dollars of each unit sold, so yeah. They don't make profit until they sell like 3 million copies.

So it's the n64 again, with Nintendo offering different size cartridges.

makes me think this person should have included the regional variants too.
I know for a fact that the Euro version of the SNES cart was shapped differently to the American one as a means of region locking.
I had a device that let you play American SNES games. I might still have it somewhere.

>RF Switch Set
>$30

JUST

Which SNES carts did you guys prefer. The early "Thick" style. Pictured here. Or the "Thin" ones released later on. Are the thick ones worth more than the thin?

Cartridges were more expensive because they were a lot more complicated. The fact that all SD cards do is store data and it's so many years later and even consumers can buy them for cheap, I don't think it will be a huge issue for the developers who are going to get massive discounts on them for buying them in bulk. It will be more expensive than optical discs, but it's nothing compared to how much a cartridge would cost.

I hope you're right. I'd hate to see game prices shoot up because they're on cartridges.

It shouldn't be too bad, their handheld games weren't too expensive. Much less space, but it's also been many years since those first released. I remember paying forty fucking bucks for a 2GB SD card. Now you get a 64GB for $15.

For the people actually making this shit I assume the difference might be a mere 2-3 bucks if even

Yeah, they gotta buy them by the thousands. Optical discs probably cost a few cents for developers, maybe the Switch cards will cost them a few dollars.

Profit margins for devs are in the 3-7 dollar range per unit sold.

>I guess data compression has gotten better over the years.
Well, that, and that a SD card is not a cartridge. Different technology, even if most of Sup Forums can't seem to understand the difference.

ITT: anons say a game series that looks interesting to them that they've never played and others tell them the ONE game that they absolutely must play from that series.

If you have multiple games to suggest that's fine but I want people to recommend THE game that must be played if someone only had time to play one.

I'll start: Castlevania

It can still be defined as a "cartridge" but the move from GBA to DS in that image is drastically different in what the two things actually are. I always just call them cards or something, just to differentiate the two.

You need to be on the front page and use the "Start a New Thread" at the top of the screen. You'll end up replying to a thread instead, if you do it while browsing the thread.

The obvious answer

Dammit, phone posting strikes again

>only Nintendo systems and one Sega system despite many other cart based systems existing

apply yourself

I remember when the n64 first came out Mario 64 and Pilotwings were both $79.99

so explain to an idiot

why were SNES/64 so bulky if they couldve been as small as the switch cartridge

That is abysmal.

Expectations of various sorts. On the one hand it's big so kids don't swallow it. It's big because everything else is big and if it doesn't look like what you know, you tend to not want anything to do with it. And finally it's the same reason the switch cases are big, we are shit at value propositions and bigger = better for the price.