The biggest change this time around is the addition of 32 KB of battery-backed SRAM that gives games (or any other software that might be on the cartridge) some persistent storage to work with.

Game cartridges are perhaps the hardiest of all common storage schemes. Short of blunt traumatic force or application of electrical surges to the cartridge’s edge connectors, damaging a game ...

That's because, as first spotted by TechTastic, Sony has obtained a patent for a brand-new cartridge format to store video games. The patent, which was filed in South Korea last year, was ...