Reddit mentions of Iomega Zip 100 Drive for Windows and Mac Computers - SCSI

Why Consoles uses "Proprietary" storage mediums is uncomparably different from the need for today's Optical Discs because it is a way to enforce user to stay on that Console's Ecosystem (how bad it maybe) so that they'll have no option yet to keep "Buying" such unlike extremely easy ways of cracking today's games elsewhere.

So, PC World will "never" have something like Cartridges or alike and all had died as had hands on experience because a friend had this and swore he'll never go against mainstream storage again. What we can deduct here is PC Gamers will always prefer some kind of Offline Storage and since seen birth of many things, also seen change of storage medium over two decades from C64's cassette tapes (was primarily for Music yet) to today's ever-decreasing price of SD Cards which is present on Pen Drives almost all of us have with us nowadays.

Since even if PC's real "CD/Compact Disc" phase of storage has phased out yet Music CDs are still strong as they never consider anything else, DVDs and BluRays even if maybe phased out for PC will have their "other" uses as such. What's expected is SD Card prices to become even cheaper so that reasonable sized today's games will fit into those and shipped on Collector's Vinyl Cases instead of any Optical Disc for ease, instant access via USB, fastest transfer speeds.

Note this, the "need" for Offline Storage will never cease.