| joshin69 said: by that time nothing will be cheaper than BD, just as nothing is cheaper than DVD at the mo. (comparative size) |
True.
Thinking about it again, much will probably depend on Microsoft's decision whether to support Blu-ray movie playback or not. If Blu-ray becomes as popular as DVD is nowadays, they need to include capabilities for BR movie playback anyway in order to meet their own claim of providing a full-fledged media center. In this case it would be stupid to use anything other than BR for their games.
So it will be interesting to see how popular the BR standard becomes in comparison to VoD. I think even in 2012 it will be too early to fully rely on downloadable content, especially when targeting the mass market. So if BR fails to gain enough popularity, MS can still decide to use BR nonetheless, or use HD DVD or even flash-based media, or something else.
