/vr/ - Retro Games

Why were gaming console companies scared of tapes and floppy disks? They still used the cartridge format well into the early 2000s even though the magnetic format was much cheaper, simpler, and faster to produce, and also rewriteable. Carts were an obsolete technology from the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600, and Intellivision era when the price of RAM was incredibly high. By the time the Colecovision was released, DRAM refresh feature was commonplace in computers and RAM memory suddenly became a lot more affordable. Even Nintendo used the floppy disk format, which was proven to be a commercial success, yet they abandoned it in favour of cartridges again within a couple of years. Just why?