Memories
Remember These Babies?
Earlier today I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about whether or not he should buy Mass Effect 2 on a disc or simply just download the digital copy (once the Playstation Network is back online of course), and almost immediately we had to stop and wonder whether or not a decision such as this was even worth thinking about nowadays.
Both my friend and I have the 160 GB Playstation 3 Slim, so neither of us have ever had to worry about running out of storage space. Maybe the two of us just have never owned enough games at one time, but the most recent time that we could think of when we actually had to worry about minuscule amounts of memory was way back in the days of the Playstation 2. You know, the days when 8 MB memory cards determined whether or not we would be playing our favorite games. The days when you were so excited to go play a game at your friends house only to remember that he didn’t have a memory card, and your mom was fifteen minutes too far away to take you back home to get the one your forgot. Yeah, those were the days.
The point is though, we never actually determined if we completely approve of the almost complete extinction of memory cards. Because lets be honest, using a flash drive just is not the same as lugging around a memory unit made specifically for your games. Maybe we were just being nostalgic, or even better, perhaps we were just showing our age, but either way the fact remains that the technologies of video game consoles are moving further and further away from their classic roots.
Insightful Nerding 