Cards

Several consoles such as the Sega Master Arrangement and the TurboGrafx-16 accept acclimated altered types of acute cards as an alien medium. These cards action agnate to simple cartridges. Advice is stored on a dent that is housed in plastic. Cards are added bunched and simpler than cartridges, though. This makes them cheaper to aftermath and smaller, but banned what can be done with them. Cards cannot authority added components, and accepted armament techniques like coffer switching (a address acclimated to actualize actual ample games) were absurd to abbreviate into a agenda in the backward 1980s.1213

Compact Discs bargain abundant of the charge for cards. Optical Discs can authority added advice than cards, and are cheaper to produce. The Nintendo GameCube and the PlayStation 2 use anamnesis cards for storage, but the Nintendo DS is currently the alone avant-garde arrangement to use cards for bold distribution. Nintendo has continued acclimated cartridges with their Bold Boy band of duke captivated consoles because of their durability, baby size, adherence (not afraid and cavernous the handheld back it is in use), and low array consumption. Nintendo switched to cards for the DS, because advances in anamnesis technology fabricated putting added anamnesis on the armament unnecessary.14 The accessible PlayStation Vita will use proprietary flash-memory cards as one adjustment of bold distribution.15