It will use Bluray whatever the cost is. Eventually it will become the new standard (for movies too) and the size is sufficient enough for games at least for another 5 or so years.
Internet speed is still very slow and costly especially if paying per Mg downloads.
Infact HD Tv's are measurable against the accessibility of fast internet.
This is where Nintendo got it right, deciding to not force consumers into unreasonable costs such as ridiculously expensive PS3's and HD plasmas and lcd's. Now i mean expensive by emerging economy standards, not Western Euro standards. Worldwide, the majority of people haven't got Digital tv reception yet so why would HD be such an integral need.
Of course this circles back round to BluRay and why DVD's are king of the disc medium also.
I dont know what will happen but it isn't so clear cut.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
