amirnetz on 23 November 2008
| Fumanchu said: In 2011-12 the price of high-speed blu-ray drives at wholesale wouldn't be a huge expense...but if they didn't want to include that and just go for DVD again I think it would mean having a HDD standard so devs can have an install disc as you can compress a whole lot more. |
Microsoft would rather have no DVD and no BR. Everything should be done through digital distribution and therefore the size limitations are becoming mute. Developers should feel to make the game as large as they want.
This makes tons of sense for Microsoft - It lower the machine cost, take away the moving parts that are prone to malefunction and transform the whole business model to be based on regular subscriptions to the Xbox Live service for connectivity, content and games.
Prediction made on 11/1/2008:
Q4 2008: 27M xbox LTD, 20M PS3 LTD . 2009 sales: 11M xbox, 9M PS3
