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by atomicnumber3 938 days ago
The switch and DS aren't cartridge-based in the same sense at all that the SNES and N64 were though. The progression was generally:

ROM - VERY fast but small Optical disks - slower but much larger Flash carts - best of both worlds by the time we started using flash for game consoles

Nintendo f'd up by staying on ROM carts for the N64 because it limited your storage space so much. And the benefit - faster load times - was probably lost on many people. (Notice how no N64 game has loading screens of any notable length). OOT just uses brief fades to black.