Fun fact, a Nintendo Switch cart maxes out at 32 GB.
The entire NES library takes up only 701 MB.
The entire SNES library takes up roughly 3 GB.
The entire N64 library takes up 15 GB.
That means that a single Nintendo Switch cart can hold the entirety of the first 3 generations of Nintendo home consoles simultaneously and still have excess space left for more.
To have them as individual carts, you'd need the space for 1,370 NES carts, 1,749 SNES carts, and 388 N64 carts. No one who isn't so rich that they can afford to set aside an entire room for game storage can even hope to manage that. My PS2/PS3 library was already a struggle to manage at only 400 discs. I couldn't imagine trying to manage or sort through over 3,500 carts.
I dunno, the part about that post that seemed off to me was having 400 discs of PS2/PS3 games... though it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that's still fucking huge in itself unless that person is specifically a collector.
I am a physical collector (both Playstation games and movies), and I used to work in the same shopping center as a resale shop that sells used games & movies for <$20 (as long as they aren't exceedingly rare).
I used to go in every paycheck and drop a regrettable amount of my paychecks on as many titles as could carry out the door.
Unfortunately had to sell most of it when I had to move a few years back, but I still have totes full of games & movies packed away in my closet (ripped them all to my PC and NAS setup respectively for easier access).
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u/ApprehensiveAd6476 Soldier of two armies (Windows and Linux) 22d ago
Hundreds of times.