SomedayTheFire
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The comparison starts to break down when you realize that a lot of games would need carts anyway, because there's no way the handheld is using discs. Building only a cart will generally be cheaper than a cart and a disc, especially if the two would need separate packing and stuff.
Also, I'm pretty sure 3rd parties aren't that involved in the actual manufacturing process. I'm pretty sure they'd be ordering everything through Nintendo either way.
Nintendo likely isn't using SD cards for carts. They'd be using much cheaper read-only memory.
Then Nintendo will be losing a hell of a lot of money in manufacturing. I'd be shocked if they did that.