23rd March 2006, 2:44 PM
42?! I don't own that many games for any system except my PC!
However, yes I thought of that. Most early games won't need much space at all. It's when you start adding up those SNES and beyond games when you hit some issues. If I wanted to download a large number of N64 games, around 50 :D, I'd hit problems. However, my main desire is to download almost every single SNES and Genesis game in all eternity, that is decent. I never played a number of games I read about that seemed interested (BOB for example, the robot with the arm).
But yeah, 512 would do the job for those who are only going to download 4 or 5 N64 games at the most. I just think that we will end up needing a "bigger boat" sooner than we might expect. Besides, a large storage medium does more than just let us download a lot of old games. It would be a great addition for new games as well. We all recognized that in the past.
However, yes I thought of that. Most early games won't need much space at all. It's when you start adding up those SNES and beyond games when you hit some issues. If I wanted to download a large number of N64 games, around 50 :D, I'd hit problems. However, my main desire is to download almost every single SNES and Genesis game in all eternity, that is decent. I never played a number of games I read about that seemed interested (BOB for example, the robot with the arm).
But yeah, 512 would do the job for those who are only going to download 4 or 5 N64 games at the most. I just think that we will end up needing a "bigger boat" sooner than we might expect. Besides, a large storage medium does more than just let us download a lot of old games. It would be a great addition for new games as well. We all recognized that in the past.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)