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Well remember that at the time it was bleeding edge technology. It was in an effort to create huge games that could run without lag and run games on the level of the PS2 on a mobile system. In retrospect the disc system was stupid but it made sense at the time. Luckily the Vita uses cartridges, I just wish they'd digitize more old PSP games for the Vita store. 
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Discs were worse than carts in terms of loading.