When, if ever will blu ray drives become standard.

[jasonnc80]

Asmo said:

jasonnc80 said:

You know you're in the PC section right?

The future isn't download....it's already here.  Steam says hello.

Well yeah your bandwith is good enough for now. But will your bandwith grow as fast as the size of the future games?

 

You have good faith in your ISP...

 

You're confusing PC development with PS3/console development. There are already games out on PC that surpass anything out in this gen of consoles.  Both graphically and in sheer scale.  Disc compression and the fact games don't stream directly off the disc totally defeats the need for large scale physical media for games on PC.  There will never be games on the PC that require as much data on a single disc as a console.  Even if games push the limit on DVD size switching discs is usually a one time issue in installation and that's it.  With the low adoption rate of Bluray especially in smaller countries I doubt you'll see anytime soon games shipping exclusively on BD.

If you were arguing this in one of the console forums you might have a point.  I still have games just a couple years old (ie: this console gen) for PC that shipped on CD :P  On Steam I just downloaded L4D this weekend for the 1/2off sale.  It was 4 gigs and took all of an hour or so to get.