One of the things that has always puzzled me is why so few games seem to take advantage of the second memory card slot on consoles. If the manufacturer has gone to the trouble of putting two slots on there, then why not make the players life just a touch less irritating by allowing them to save to a memory card in the second slot?
How many times have you started playing a new game, passed the tutorial level and got to a save point only to be told something like “Memory Card in Slot 1 is full, please insert another Memory Card”. Aaaarrgh! Look you stupid game, there’s a perfectly good memory card sat in the second port, why not check whether there’s any room on that one? Instead, you have to get up, scrabble about under the TV to reach the console, swap the cards over, and try again.
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