The technology and execution of laser to read tiny bumps and translate it into binary is fucking amazing, which allowed for unparalleled storage. But get this, you need to handle them like a fucking baby, literally HALF of the surface is exposed to dust, moisture, scratching etc, and they're made of the cheapest plastic imaginable.
For fuck's sake people say the PSP UMD was a disaster but when I first saw them I thought they were amazing since they had a coat of plastic like a cassette and less than 20% of the CD is exposed. Honestly I thought and still think the PSP UMD is the ultimate CD prototype if it was ever implemented with full sized CDs.
Apart from being cheap as fuck, the CD and blu ray have NO ADVANTAGES IN CURRENT YEAR. They can be broken with two fingers and are STILL fucking susceptible to dust, water and scratching, and NO amount of scratch resistant will preserve them. Here's a test, find your SNES, Mega Drive collection and compare them to your original PlayStation collection and see which are in a better shape. This 80/90s technology should have died by the 2010s
I hope the next gen is cartridge only. If no one can figure out how to fit GTA 6 on a cartridge then the industry deserves to fail.
Luke Walker
Next gen will be download only. Get fucked, ausfailia.
Jose Carter
>handle them like a baby
what the fuck nigger you must be some 5-year-old-with-dvds-tier sorta shit if you're really having this much trouble keeping your CDs from getting scratched
what the fuck dude put it in the fucking case when you're done what the fuck are you even talking about
Owen Morales
nah, my shit is like an upper class library. My disks will degrade as time intended.
Elijah Taylor
Blu-ray is actually pretty durable as far as discs go. They have way more protection from damage than DVDs and CDs, but yeah most people would agree. Optical is trash and is basically done with blu-ray. In fact, I think physical games are almost done. I feel like sometime within the next couple generations of consoles games are going to be pure digital. I'm not saying I like that. I have a huge collection of physical games, but from a practicality standpoint digital is just becoming too big and too available for the average consumer.
Camden Carter
>Try to buy used games from GameStop >Bottom disc is the result No wonder they are going under, they pay people money for garbage, then try selling that marked up garbage to others.
Jackson Baker
Nigga we have 1TB SD cards, of course it's gonna fit.
Logan Reyes
>buy Legend of Mana off of ebay years ago >disc is kinda scuffed but it works fine >finally buckle down and beat it >looking forward to new game plus >freezes on the end credits >can't skip >no new game plus for me
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK
Chase Foster
>The technology exists to put all data on cartridges now >Shady as fuck companies like Activision only put loaders on the cartridges and then force downloads No, don't enable anti-consumer practices.
Cameron Ortiz
>are STILL fucking susceptible to dust, water and scratching, and NO amount of scratch resistant will preserve them. Blu-Rays are far more durable that this is no longer a concern. Even then though, if you're breaking your disc by handling them, I can only assume you're a retard with no sense on how to handle objects. >Here's a test, find your SNES, Mega Drive collection and compare them to your original PlayStation collection and see which are in a better shape. Both are in excellent condition because I don't leave them out on the fucking floor.
Alexander Young
This is why you should always emulate. Original Hardware is the ultimate meme.
Aaron Morris
Hope you enjoy paying extra to make up for the manufacturing cost.
Caleb Price
When I first saw the UMD, I saw some kid pry it open, thinking he needed to get the disk inside. It was in the store too, no one stopped him. Then he tried to get his dad to return it. Weird times
Kevin Myers
>1TB SD >$450
>100gb quad layer blu-ray >$1.64
>1TB worth of 100gb quad layer blu-rays >$16.40
Easton Martinez
I think one of the problems with physical media like discs are because they're just glorified installers now. I don't know how good read and write speeds are for discs compared to HDD/SSD.
Logan Stewart
Everytime i see a disk i feel retarded, who the fuck even made this shit work, my ps3 has the blue ray literally exposed since a tv fell above it years ago, but it still works, and its amazing to see it in action, how do you even imagine that shit?
Landon Roberts
I'm frankly amazed at how bad people can be at handling optical discs.
Jonathan Gray
Change that to $6-14 per disc (10 packs are selling for $60-85), and realize that 128 gig micro SD cards are reaching the $20 mark, and will be continuously lowering as we reach the next 2 console gens.
David Flores
Prices are going down pretty fast, 256GB is around $40 and even 400GB cards go for $70 nowadays.
Isaiah Wilson
It's amazing how durable blu-rays are considering there's a lot more data per square space. You'd think they'd hitch a lot more with small scratches on the disc.
Henry Hughes
>be retarded and neglect the things you own >"wow this product sure does suck"
>try and get ahold of a game for a system that used CDs, DVDs or bluray >nearly every single copy you can find is fucked up to the point you can't use the disc I know we're not retarded, user, but the folks out there? The ones who purchase most games? They are.
