Cartridges are better than optical media in every other means except for storage capacity and maybe cost. That's why in the mid 1990s, most consoles went to CDs, and now we use Blu Ray. But is it maybe time to give the venerable cartridge a second chance? I'm not talking about something like an SNES cartridge (although SNES kicks ass). Today, solid state media has come a long way. We put memory cards with many gigabytes in our cameras often, and they are cheap; I got a 16 gigabyte card for less than 10 dollars a couple of months ago. Is it possible that this type of solid state media could be used for video games, encased in a plastic casing much like the cartridges were for durability?