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Memory Sticks Instead Of Disc's
deadskin:
--- Quote from: mgz on February 25, 2012, 09:06:56 PM ---allows you to get rid of that shitty cd/bluray drive and the proprietary fees that are associated with using them as competitors, Allowing you to make a more visually appealing gaming console that is made smaller where possible.
you compare to a bluray disk but microsoft dont use bluray and neither does nintendo so compare to competition.
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Licensing fee for blu ray isn't really that expensive. IIRC it costs 10-15c USD per disk depending on the type of disk.
So yea 8gb usb stick vs disks from msft or 1 4gb stick for nintendo
--- Quote ---Consumer POV-
Mass use of mem cards will drive cost down exponentially for consumers in the regular market,
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That's not how supply and demand works.
mgz:
--- Quote from: deadskin on February 25, 2012, 11:56:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: mgz on February 25, 2012, 09:06:56 PM ---allows you to get rid of that shitty cd/bluray drive and the proprietary fees that are associated with using them as competitors, Allowing you to make a more visually appealing gaming console that is made smaller where possible.
you compare to a bluray disk but microsoft dont use bluray and neither does nintendo so compare to competition.
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Licensing fee for blu ray isn't really that expensive. IIRC it costs 10-15c USD per disk depending on the type of disk.
So yea 8gb usb stick vs disks from msft or 1 4gb stick for nintendo
--- Quote ---Consumer POV-
Mass use of mem cards will drive cost down exponentially for consumers in the regular market,
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That's not how supply and demand works.
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its not how supply and demand works it how mass production works the more of something that is made due to a rising demand the lower production costs go and the cheaper you can produce and sell them while maintaining your desired profit margins.
Supply and demand only comes into effect when there is a finite or limited supply of something and its quantity is held at that amount regardless of demand.
nstgc:
Disk:
[*]Cheaper (compare a BD-r to a USB thumb drive or SD card)
[*]can't assume that drives will be able to write to them (this is important so that ass hole companies don't pull a "you can only use this disk X number of times").
[*]easier to store (they just stack)
xShadow:
Now, this could be completely wrong, economically... I have no idea, I'm not a business major. But:
I chose disk. Mainly because I don't know how moving all of our stuff over to USB is gonna affect other prices, and how they will even affect themselves. Basically, you're taking away the fixed cost for the disk drive, but you're moving over to another medium that relies on parts that are used in massive quantities in other locations.
Sure, right now it's fine because most people buy a USB drive and use it for a good while. Even if everyone in the US has one, it's not something that you necessarily need an overwhelming amount of, because at most everyone only really needs one.
If we move video games over to USB drives, I think it's going to slowly (or quickly) price hike stuff that relies on similar parts to it... which in turn will make the USB drives more expensive, because it's a vicious cycle.
Could be wrong... I don't know how much supply there is for USB parts, or what they're used for elsewhere.
undetz:
--- Quote from: metro. on February 25, 2012, 07:46:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: Muk666 on February 25, 2012, 07:45:54 PM ---give me everything digital and lower the price instead, couldnt care less about physical copies
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Amen.
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People like you are the reason we can't have nice things any more.
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