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Well, I think it was more because cartridges were solid state. You'll never beat solid state loading times with a spinning disc, no matter how fast you spin tha

• robmcm 13y ago
  True, but we have SSD's now and they take ages, plus we have more ram that 1000's of those cartridges combined. I think the leap to disks was due to the need for space (sound especially) and loading came as a cost. Perhaps the next-next-generation will all be downloaded onto SSD and we can do away with loading times again :D