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Post by Ex on Nov 21, 2018 11:23:00 GMT -5
Do you think the iPod had anything to do with raising public awareness of megabytes vs. gigabytes and so forth? Possibly, I'm not sure. I think from the time which the GameCube released to the time the Wii released, there was a large cultural shift in public awareness of computers/portable media players VS storage memory (especially flash memory) in general. I never lived in that situation personally. By the time memory cards became a common thing, I was already a young adult, and my gaming equipment was exclusive to me. |
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Post by Sarge on Nov 21, 2018 13:52:06 GMT -5
I think computers were starting to be a lot more ubiquitous, and they figured folks on console could handle it at that point. The PS2 came out before the iPod, and they made the swap to KB as well. I think it might have had to do with two things.
Firstly, the capacity was so much larger than a PS1 memory card (8 MB vs. 128 KB) that keeping with blocks was going to make some really ridiculous numbers anyway, so they might as well roll with well-established measures of remaining space.
The second might be that Sony was initially trying to obscure just how small the memory capacity on these cards was. This may also be why Nintendo chose to stick with blocks; the original Memory Card 59s were only 512 KB, which obviously didn't compare well with Sony's stock offering. (They would eventually release the 1019, which would bring it up to the 8 MB of the Sony cards.)
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Post by anayo on Nov 23, 2018 17:52:15 GMT -5
The second might be that Sony was initially trying to obscure just how small the memory capacity on these cards was. This may also be why Nintendo chose to stick with blocks; the original Memory Card 59s were only 512 KB, which obviously didn't compare well with Sony's stock offering. (They would eventually release the 1019, which would bring it up to the 8 MB of the Sony cards.) I had no idea Gamecube cards were that tiny. Weren't they priced about the same as 8 MB PS2 memory cards, too? |
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Post by Sarge on Nov 23, 2018 18:12:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I think they were. And as you might guess, having cards that tiny meant you ran out of space fast!
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Post by Sarge on Dec 5, 2018 13:31:52 GMT -5
I'm a bit curious, has anyone actually bought new PSX memory cards these days? Or N64 ones? Does anyone make stock that's worth buying? It probably wouldn't hurt for me to get at least another N64 one since I regularly run out of space when I actually go on an N64 binge, but a few reliable PSX cards might be worthwhile as well given the age of my current ones.
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Post by anayo on Dec 5, 2018 13:53:30 GMT -5
I'm a bit curious, has anyone actually bought new PSX memory cards these days? Or N64 ones? Does anyone make stock that's worth buying? It probably wouldn't hurt for me to get at least another N64 one since I regularly run out of space when I actually go on an N64 binge, but a few reliable PSX cards might be worthwhile as well given the age of my current ones. Nope, haven't bought any of those new lately. In fact I think I have dearth of PSX memory cards. Like I'm just rocking one of them which I bought in 2003 or something. |
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Post by Ex on Dec 5, 2018 22:21:55 GMT -5
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