Hard drives and Memory cards to become obsolete?

[Demon_Skeith]

With sony starting the online cloud saves, and Microsoft quickly adapting it to their Xbox live. Nintendo won't be far behind and soon I see this service either being free or very cheap to use.

Do you believe that online game saying data will make Hard drives, memory cards, and SD cards obsolete as far as gaming is concerned?

 

[GracefulAssassin]

I think built in hard drives will stay, but memory cards are basically obsolete. I wish I had more space though, because my PS3 is basically out of room. >_> Although the Cloud is very useful.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

until PSN plus runs out.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

I am intending on buying a 3 month. It's cheap, so why not?

 

[froggyboy604]

35% of the US still uses dial-up according to http://www.webmasterworld.com/webmaster/4087174.htm because their town does not have affordable broadband, and I see no reason for hard drives and memory cards being obsolete since they don't cost much these days. In undeveloped countries like Ukraine, Mexico, etc the number of people with no internet is even higher.

The Xbox 360 had an update last year which let's you use up to 16GBs of an USB external hard drive or flash drives memory space for saving games, and DLC.

Plus, the Wii uses SD memory cards like this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001C9P5TO?ie=UTF8&tag=johsgamsto-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001C9P5TO for game saves and DLC.

I see proprietary memory cards and hard drives which only can be used on game consoles being obsolete, but people will have the option to use SD memory cards and USB external flash and hard drives to store their games if they dont like online storage or can't afford it.

 

[adarshnet]

Nothing can make me thrown away my hard-drives or memory cards, I'll use the cloud services but I sure will keep the storage drives atleast as memoirs.....believe it or not but I still have 50-odd floppy drives