Ill tell you something. Technology is normally drip fed to us, in fact blue lasers (the thin ones that read BR and HD discs) were invented 10 years ago.
With PC's and online downloads being a massive threat to "home entertainment" it looks like they had to have a new trick. Maybe cinema's resurgence to 3D next yr is the same thing.
I think Apple's IPhone is pretty clear evidence, soon followed ofcourse by DSi downloads, that discs are dead and its only a matter of time.
“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.
