perrinoia t1_jcyatdu wrote
Trans flash, aka micro sd, will be the last holdout used by game consoles unless someone invents a USBC flash drive that is smaller.
Otherwise, everything will be cloud based, and the only use we'll have for physical media will be security keys and download links.
AwesomeDragon97 t1_jczagvb wrote
The cloud is not a magical place in the sky, it is just someone else’s computer. This means that physical media will never be obsolete because the data always needs to be stored somewhere.
perrinoia t1_jczdqun wrote
Semantics. Obviously OP meant removable media. There's no need to physically carry media around with us like we used to.
Look at the popularity of chrome books, for instance.
The last time I built a computer, I bought the biggest hard drive I could to fit all of my games and other data. However, my current cellphone is more powerful than the last gaming rig I built. SSDs are so much faster than HDDs, and the internet is so much faster, I don't need to store everything I own locally. I can use my internal storage as a buffer to store whatever I'm actively working on or playing with, while archiving the rest on the cloud and downloading as needed.
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