I'm sorry, but no it absolutely was not. If you had more than a single user those bad boys filled up relatively fast.
Remember when games came self-contained on disks?
the only part to waiting to play the game was the drive home, not the game downloading, then downloading again with the updates.
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Well one of those is just for saved data while the other is for the whole game.
This is a pretty terrible comparison considering those cartridges didn't include any game data... You could probably still use them today, the only thing they held was game save data...
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