Looking at getting this

[Alcibiades]

I've built my own a couple times before....just been years.  Would rather just have someone do it and take care of shit when it goes wrong for a couple of hundred dollars this time considering the price tag. 

[DontSayBanana]

You think so? I've not heard that.
That would be odd...but cool. Cartidges were awesome.
Would be amusing if it happened though, it used to be PCs were discs and consoles were carts, it would mark a complete turn-around.

Why not?  DS games run on 512MB flash cards...

[Grey Fox]

PC games will be on Flash drives before they are on Blu-Rays.

Who's building it? Can I do it?

You think so? I've not heard that.
That would be odd...but cool. Cartidges were awesome.
Would be amusing if it happened though, it used to be PCs were discs and consoles were carts, it would mark a complete turn-around.

I do. More & more laptops are not going to feature dvd/cd/bluray in the future.

[DGuller]

I agree that the new floppy is the flash drive, not some version of CD.  However, wouldn't putting games on flash drive be pointlessly expensive?  CDs/DVDs/etc. seem like perfect media for installation disks.

[Grey Fox]

Maybe but then again software companies are giving flash drives away like candies at conventions & other meetings.

[DGuller]

Maybe but then again software companies are giving flash drives away like candies at conventions & other meetings.

Yeah, but still, gift bags are one thing, millions of copies is another.  The cost per GB is not even close.

[Darth Wagtaros]

You think so? I've not heard that.
That would be odd...but cool. Cartidges were awesome.
Would be amusing if it happened though, it used to be PCs were discs and consoles were carts, it would mark a complete turn-around.

Why not?  DS games run on 512MB flash cards...

Early computers did include cartridge readers.  I miss my Atari.

[derspiess]

Early computers did include cartridge readers.  I miss my Atari.

I wish I had space to set mine up.  And a working disk drive.

[DontSayBanana]

Yeah, but still, gift bags are one thing, millions of copies is another.  The cost per GB is not even close.

The idea is that solid-state media can run fast enough in large enough capacities that you'd no longer need to install; you could just install the game engine onto the media and let autoplay do all the work.

[grumbler]

Maybe but then again software companies are giving flash drives away like candies at conventions & other meetings.

Yeah, but still, gift bags are one thing, millions of copies is another.  The cost per GB is not even close.

Agreed, and what is being given away is flash drives too small to be salable any more.  Production cost per unit for a 2GB game is going to be much higher with flash drives, I should think; both the medium and the process are more expensive.

[Darth Wagtaros]

They were quality machines.  In my experience at least far more reliable as far as hardware goes than many mass market commercial PCs of today are.

Early computers did include cartridge readers.  I miss my Atari.

I wish I had space to set mine up.  And a working disk drive.