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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

nah, at some point we'll go back to cartridges, but theyll just be ssd drives

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Dear god, I can't imagine a game publisher wanting to distribute SSD's with their games on them. The price of memory is skyrocketing right now -- not just RAM, but solid state flash storage too.

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    A graph showing prices of consumer SSD's at 1TB. From August 2024 to November 2025, the price remains stable at about $100. Between November 2025 to January 2026, the price doubled. Source: pcpartpicker.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    im definitely being hopeful that in the future things will be better that the prices of that stuff wont be insane like today

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I mean I love the idea of a physical library of branded thumb drives - in an alternate universe, USB would be fast enough to stream an entire game from a thumb drive, and your entire game library would be stored in bespoke furniture, like this cassette container.

    But yeah, every big tech boom is followed by a big tech bust: dotcoms, crypto, VR/metaverse. AI will eventually join their ranks, it may just take longer than we would hope. And when it does, the price of hardware will eventually stabilize, with software to follow.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    If there's any optimistic "stick it to the man" future to be dreamed of, it's one where publishers go back to shipping Big Box-style packages, with 3-5 Blu Ray discs. But even that is woefully unrealistic - Rockstar is just cementing what Valve has known for years: why pay for packaging when the player just downloads the whole game anyway.

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