Discs Are here to stay!http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/02/21/nintendo-confirm-wii-2-and-others-will-use-physical-media/

Good, this also means the Wii successor will likely be backwards compatible.  Now it's just a matter of what kind of discs they will use.  It'll be either DVD or that holographic storage they've been researching and less likely Blu-ray.

The holo disk last I heard would cost a substancial amount of money to produce. But Nintendo's been eying it since the end of the GameCube era. Spending over 300-mill a year in R&D I'm sure Nintendo has a great new format to use. Likely their own disk format.

I'm not suprised Nintendo will stick with physical formats. I mean seriously the next gen games will be like 50-gig downloading those suckers would be costly and not be efficient. I don't think digital downloads will become mainstream as long as game companies continue to advance the amount and quality of content they provide.

Lets face it no AAA game is going to be efficiently downloaded.

I've always expected this.  Backwards compatability with Wii and GC (maybe) will be a big bonus.  If downloads are transferable as they are with the 3DS, I am even happier

PSP Go gave whole industry good lesson ;)

Yup, to fight piracy, attach 10 movies to the game. It'll be too big to download.

50GB? Jeez.

Thats decidedly unrealistic especially given the fact that publishers have already decided to target direct download as an important means of distribution. There are many games which look considerably better than almost all current generation console titles on the PC which use less than 10GB and thats with duplication of texture data to support various settings.

Wii 2 will use Blu-ray media, won't play BD/DVD movies, and will still have Wii backwards compatibility, but not GameCube.   GC games will be added to the Virtual Console though (for $15 each).

Fuck that. I would just skip out on it.

I don't want to rebuy my GCN games!