Is there a reason for flash memory to have pins this exposed?

>>59028250
The more contact area you have, the less likely your end users experience failure after inserting and removing memory cards thousands of times.
We eventually found spinnan disks and hard drives to be superior.

not sure if youre retarded or what, its a way to make something baby safe and still have 16 points of contcact in a small, easily loseable size

>>59028261
Of course since this belongs to the Switch, the likely answer is because it's unreasonable to have spinnan disks in your console, even though people still want removable media.

>>59028261
So it minimizes the problems wear and tear causes and gives it more longevity?

>>59028276
Yes. And since this is the modern age and they are not chinkshit memories they plating on the pins should last several years

>>59028274
PSP did it.

Primarily because the time flash media was shit, yes, but it still worked.

What is there to play on a $300 gaming console with no good launch titles and a literal rehash of everyone's favorite squid simulator?

I could buy a PS4 right now for $200 and it'll include a bundled game.

>>59028309
UMD was so slow that most games had to be partly cached on flash memory.

>>59028380
Very likely has to do with vibration and head parking.
A laptop with shock protection will stop your hard drive if it detects rotation, in order to prevent a head crash.
I would be unsurprised if this was also the case on the PSP.

>>59028397
I know you're trying to sound smart, but just stop.
It's a fucking laser.
You're too young to have played one.

>>59028413
>a spinning disk won't move around if you fucking rotate it

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>>59028432
they came suspended in a cartridge

>>59028320
>Our thinking in arranging the 2017 software lineup is that it is important to continue to provide new titles regularly without long gaps. This encourages consumers to continue actively playing the system, maintains buzz, and spurs continued sales momentum for Nintendo Switch.

>>59028441
That makes no difference. All that plastic shit is designed to do is prevent manchildren from touching the disk directly.

>>59028397
No, the UMD drive is just fucking slow. It had 100-500ms seek times and 600KB/s Sustained read speed.

>>59028453
i don't remember vibration or disc noise being a real issue, it was just slow

>>59028250
>Bomberman
>Konami

when did this happen?

>>59028445
So where are the games?

>>59028473
Konami bought out Hudson ages ago

I wonder if modern day Bomberman has jihad mode.

>>59028453
There is a spindle and dampeners to keep the disk within a certain runout. Under extreme conditions the plastic casing would help prevent the disk from making contact with the laser lens should the dampers fail.

It's literally the exact same technique CD drives in multi-position consoles/pc's and cars use.

>>59028397
>shock protection
and I deactivated that shit everywhere. I hate this.

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CD's are so shit.
My backup OS CD was only 3 years old and it already crumbled to pieces. And it was always sealed away in a dark and cold place.

thank god CDs died.

>>59028309
UMDs were fucking slow. Don't kid yourself.
Just download any PSP game from the store onto a VITA and understand.

>>59028397
UMD doesn't need to head park any more than optical drives need to. Even less because they are better contained.
Earlier optical drives certainly had issues with shock, but that's pretty much a thing of the past.

>>59028250
looks like vita games, only with a bigger box

>>59028250
>wasting that much plastic for such a tiny card
How is this allowed?

>>59028309
UMDs fucking suck. I have a PSP. The only thing worse than UMD is the proprietary memory, I paid like 100 dollars for 4GB.

Anyone who uses spinning media for a portable device is full retard. Shit was noisy as fuck too.

>>59031162
>I paid like 100 dollars for 4GB.
i got a 2G card when they were the biggest for $200
barely even used the UMD drive

>>59031192
I played LITERALLY 1 game on my PSP before it broke from a little drop (screen got damaged). I'm pretty butthurt about that purchase in general.

>>59031235
that's impressive
i've never seen a psp with a broken screen before

>>59031254
The "screen" didn't technically break if you mean the whole thing as an unit, the panel inside broke so it only displayed garbage. It was the cheapo model which was released last. Very poorly built.

>>59031162
Nigger there are microSD to MemoryStick Pro Duo adapters out there for $5

>>59031389
Too late for that now.

>>59030421
This kills the drive.

Wouldn't that create a dangerous susceptibility to environmental and mishandling wear?

>>59028476
I dont think you get it

>>59030496
>Just download any PSP game from the store onto a VITA and understand.
>not caching entire iso in ram on ppsspp

>>59028967
>and dampeners
There are no dampeners. It's literally two pieces of plastic that go around the disc to make sure it didn't get scratched. The system itself only interfaced with the shell in two spots to make sure it wasn't crushing it, and UMD was a horrible fucking format.

>>59031706
UMD made sense at the time
the psp was a pretty powerful handheld at the time, and games were demanding more space than what was cheaply doable with ROM/Flash chips
several years earlier nintendo finally caved with the gamecube, moving to minidvd's
it wasn't surprising that the psp used optical media

sure, it would have been better technically to use carts, but then you'd end up with something like what the N64 suffered, games that cost more and were limited by storage before anything else

>>59030477
I still have CD-R's from the late 90s that work after heavy use. I paid $5 each and they're gold plated, and much heavier than the cheapo discs produced years later. Always get archival quality product

>>59028441
Yes, like some early DVD's. Doesn't mean it doesn't spin. You move any spinning thing hard enough and it will stop to prevent read errors. Or are you implying the laser moves while the disk is static?

has the switch been hacked yet? i will buy it only if it gets homebrew

>>59032699
>switch isn't even out
>expects it to be hacked already

>>59032769
>>59032769
its been leaked already. reminder that consoles have been cracked before theyve come out in the past

>>59028250
Standards.
Spread wear, those contacts go bad really fast, see DS games and cheap flashcards.

>>59031254
PSP-1000 screen breaks really easy.
Mine did too.

>>59032769
If its android based OS(higly unlikely since nintendo always makes their OS from scratch) its possible.

They removed the Browser and legacy support for older games for a reason.

>>59032783
Are you talking about the GAF fag that had one? Turns out he stole it and Nintendo took it back from him.


>>59033620
>They removed ... legacy support for older games for a reason.
You can't remove something that never existed in the first place. It was never meant to have any backwards compatibility.

am i on /v/ right now? wtf

>>59033659
It was supposed to emulate gamecube and Wii games trough VC.

>>59032102
UMD was a transparent attempt to get consumers to buy additional copies of movies on a different (and even more proprietary) physical format.

It had awful power consumption, throughput, and seeking latency characteristics even when it was brand new,

>>59033676
yes

>>59028441
damn that is truly te most patrician external media design ever thoughted

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>Would it speed up read times?

>>59034273
too bad it's proprietary and slow
as soon as I figured out that CFW was a thing, I stopped buying import games and umd ripped all my own games to my memory card so I wouldn't have to get fucked by load times.

>>59028250
Tiny SD games are cool, I like it, but they could have made the boxes a third smaller, even reduce the height by 2 would have been good.

>>59034614
They would have had to admit it was just a fucking DS at that point

>>59028261
>We eventually found spinnan disks and hard drives to be superior.
not for mobile devices. also SSDs are a thing

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>>59028250
Depends on the machine you put that into, theoretically to prolong its lifespan or future proofing additional space for more pins. Since its Nintendo they probably know what they're doing since they have been dealing with cartridges since the stone ages. My N64 still fucking works.
Question is how much storage can that thing hold? I know micro SD can hold over 124gb
that thing should be able to hold more judging by its size, at the very least it should be 64gb

>>59034292
Lower impedance means faster propagation of voltage means potentially faster communication.
Pleb.

>>59028250
Is this real? Because if it is, I will expand dong.

>>59037037
yes

>>59034542
>proprietary
They were literally ISO 9660 compliant.

Is that a reversible cover?

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>>59030477
>>59032580
>looking through some old as fuck CD-Rs I found in my closet
>it's all porn

>>59028309
Lmao, the psp was shit, I even own one.

>>59036256
not enough to matter

So that people can have the nostalgic experience of blowing the dust off of the pins when it fails to read properly.

>>59035766
Rumor says 16gb standard at launch and it'll go up over time like the other handheld cards

>kids toy
>contacts have larger surface area to prolong life from user abuse

Cheeto dust is highly corrosive.