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Gets even better when you add NES, SNES and N64 carts since the Switch is also technically a home console.

So they lose it and have to buy another copy? It's actually brilliant. Kids at my day care would frequently lose their GBA/DS cartridges.

I always laugh at those people who complain that the switch boxes are too big for such a tiny game cart.

what the fuck do you want? tiny boxes? imagine going to best buy and just seeing a row of tiny plastic boxes.

>imagine going to best buy and just seeing a row of tiny plastic boxes.

um

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Dilate first

>Disc became flimsy crap when capacity reached 20g
>Meanwhile cartridges and alike are still strong even overcoming their downsides.

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RAM-based cartridges are still stuck where they were
This is why you have load times on handhelds, since the solid state has to transfer to system memory. That said, it's much better than UMD or blu rays

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I'd be okay with smaller boxes. It's not like games are coming with big, beefy manuals anymore anyways.

Ok.

you bought sonic chronicles?

Why not make them the old size for maximum space.

Out of all the half dozen vita games somebody feels the need to buy the shittiest lego ones

those arent the size of switch carts, dummy.

>Soul is represented by size
w o a h

Is that why most "physical" Switch releases are receipts with download codes on it?

How many hours to write 1tb?

what physical switch releases are you buying? Fortnite?

You mean RE: Rev & Bayonetta? Ports of fucking old ass games?

I still have a 16MB SD card (non-micro). I keep it to remind myself just how far shit has come, and how much further it'll surely go.

I mean, the cartridge is fast enough that it doesn't really matter 2bh. it's like a low tier ssd. Load times come from slower hardware and, like, SD card read speed.

The cartridges are worse than most SD cards, it's disappointing

I thought loading came because the game systems have now those shitty OS.

the smaller the cartridge, the lesser the soul

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>Switch cartridges can't handle ports of old ass games
Not helping your argument

>have now those shitty OS
No, ESL-san, it's because data now needs to be loaded. The NES through N64 treated the cartridge as actual memory, so the CPU could read straight from it instead of putting it all in the system RAM. Solid state is much cheaper (meaning you can store more), but can't be used like that.

No, it's publishers who are cheapskates and aren't willing to get slightly bigger carts. Look at The Witcher 3 which is going to use a 32GB cart with all the base game + DLC in it.

What about DS cards? A few games were half a gig yet didn't even required loading.

Literally only happened for bundles so far, and a couple indies that couldn't cough up the money to produce cartridges.

t. worthless boomer with no taste

>can't handle ports of old ass games
It's about storage size, retarded shitposter-kun

fuck you

remember when stores used to put cd jewel cases in that three foot long piece of plastic to make shoplifting harder? i guess games are mostly kept in a locked case or behind the counter but imagine how many switch games you could shove in your purse if the box was the size of a triscuit lol

>didn't even required
You can do better
DS ROM is more similar to the N64, but actually there were games with load screens. The connection speed sometimes wasn't quite enough.

not tiny boxes, but the DS box was perfect imo

>Hey dude check out my new hard drive it has 8x the amount of space my old one had!

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Moore's law is failing; transistor sizes are so small that quantum mechanics and EM radiation can fuck them up. Storage density and processing power have hit a wall.
That's the idea driving hawaiian shoplifting gangs

>Moore's law is failing
Moore's law didn't fail us, we failed Moore's law.

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Same. I've got every Atari 2600 game on it.

That reminds me I saw my brother's friend harddrive space at a whooping 15GB and I actually said out loud. Who the fuck needs that much space, that's absurd.

>Quantum mechanics are fucking up transistors
Explain to a brainlet how this works.

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hawaiian shoplifting gangs, huh? it's a pretty good idea, walking out of the store without paying for small easy-to-conceal items, but i dunno if they invented it really. is there really a hawaiian shoplifting crimewave on now?

Parts are so small that electrons can't stay in place

Most of the time you can expect an electron to work like bigger things would, so if it hits a wall it would usually stop moving
But once the wall is small enough, the probability part of quantum physics comes into play and there is basically a chance that the electron will appear on the other side of the wall. This is because an electron is not exactly an object but more like a charged field that a particle is tied to, and it can appear at any point within.
It isn't a felony unless you steal some crazy amount, like several hundred dollars

I see. Interesting. I didn't think anything on a quantum level would have an effect on a part of a video game cartridge.

Just use parts to block the electrons lmao

I bet a snoygger is behind this post

Technically speaking it hasn't come into play yet, but as nanometer measurements go down we can't keep doing the same thing but better. It takes longer to improve because we now have to think outside of the box. This is in part why prices aren't going down.

my windows 98 had a 10GB HDD and I felt like a total fuckin G.

then I learned about 80 and 120GB units during the XP era. holyyyyyyyyyyy shit

i'm obviously not a legal scholar but i think that's the case in most places? felonies are generally serious crimes. semi-related, i had a buddy in high school who thought it was straight-up legal to take anything priced under ten dollars from walmart

It's a problem because these gangs popped up after the state raised the limit, and stores basically have to take it in the ass
The only other place you find canned food locked up with the same security as electronics is Detroit

Again,
>Switch cartridges can't handle ports of old-ass games
>Publishers should fork over extra because Nintendo are intentionally gimping the size to make them pay more

Not to mention several sports games

Again
>can't handle
Oh, so you're retarded.

based

wow you can actually see the games getting worse over time holy shit

>Sell a game that might not go too well on a system owned by people that prefer first party titles
>Just dropping it on the online store isn't going to do much
>Instead opt to do physical release but include a download code to cut costs
There you go.

Wouldn’t it be better to keep the card sizes bigger so they can fit more graphics in there?

damn, that is a crimewave. that's hilarious/unfortunate.

credit card size is comfy size

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>yeah bro, I use an ssd

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>Wolfenstein
If you're gonna try to use a cherrypick like if it were a big deal you should mention all those PC games that pulled this same stunt.

>thread turns into a switch shitposting session

Why are anti-switch fags so insecure? Upset it's doing so well?

>MMZero and ZX
based

The more things change, the more they stay the same

>Inb4 Accktuuwillyyy

To incentivise digital purchases. That's clearly what most their marketing tries to drive people to.

>day care
>GBA/DS

Presumably user works or worked at one, not that their fellow kids in day care were losing them.

PS5 games should be released like PS1 games.

i heard they taste like shit

The DS was released in 2004.

imagine buying a Vita for lego shit

>the bigger the game is physically, the better it is
weird

Imagine buying a Vita

>just use parts to block the electron
That would require thick barriers, which would increase the size. Science is all about limits, not possibilities.

>Sonic Chronicles
You poor poor soul

I don't think they're gonna make them any smaller

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>NES Mario Bros. is better than Famicom Mario Bros.

Emerald is still the best