Thereare people programming for GameBoy® right now.

Retrogaming is a huge scene.

So like an external ssd.

While I like the physicality of touching and owning your own games, the big old chunky cartridge's day is done. Look at the differences between the Playstation and the Nintendo 64 to find out why.

Best you're gonna get is microSD cards or the Switch's tiny cartridges.

Cartridge based games in this day and age, the game would be absolutely massive if we're considering the storage capacity of the modern day.

It would be like gta6 with all interior buildings enterable, all characters have a million lines of dialogue, they can all interact with each other, the open world is a 1:1 recreation of Earth and then also if you wanted you could build a spaceship and go to extremely detailed planets that also, are like gta6 with all buildings enterable and alien races, etc.,

And it still would be smaller than an n64 cartridge with today's technology

But that would be one hell of a game....or it would be The Matrix.

id be wary of that. modding is key to lots of us and many games thrive of the ability to be modded.

Cartridges as we knew them, imho, would be a step backwards.

your cartridge needs a day 1 patch.

Are people living under a rock? What do you think Nintendo has been doing with the switch?

Hundreds of gigs of flash storage is like pennies these days.

Get good at electronics and you can create the revolution OP.

The switch sd card was the chosen one, till switch2 made it a key

I think consoles just need to go the way of the dodo bird. Only the dodo should be brought back because they're adorable little idiots and apparently they tasted delicious.

Originally posted by IGX:

Are people living under a rock? What do you think Nintendo has been doing with the switch?

Taking money from gullible idiots by preying on their nostalgia when they aren't being Temu Yakuza and harassing smalltime devs and content creators who like their games or are inspired by them? Plus it still requires the internet, ergo it's not cartridge-based.

There's a lot of traits of older game consoles that I hope like hell we never go back to.

Originally posted by IGX:

Are people living under a rock? What do you think Nintendo has been doing with the switch?

Ehh, the switch is hardly a “console.”Just a handheld you can dock. I’m talking flagship, dedicated console. And I don’t mean a tiny SD-card, I’m talking SNES and N64 style. Those babies are mini tanks that still work today and will probably work for another 30 years.

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

There's a lot of traits of older game consoles that I hope like hell we never go back to.

I personally saw the ability to load a saved game using 32 characters in a strange and sometimes difficult to read font part of the gaming experience to be enjoyed.

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Every game I got is on a cartridge, its called an SSD