Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
If AI wasn’t making SSD prices so outrageous right now, an SSD-based cartridge system would make a lot of sense. They could be made in a variety of sizes, to accommodate games with different filesystem footprints, and if the SSDs in them have tolerable performance, they could be played directly off the cartridge, without needing to ‘install’ anything – just insert and go.
If AI wasn’t making SSD prices so outrageous right now, an SSD-based cartridge system would make a lot of sense. They could be made in a variety of sizes, to accommodate games with different filesystem footprints, and if the SSDs in them have tolerable performance, they could be played directly off the cartridge, without needing to ‘install’ anything – just insert and go.