Retailers are not that powerful. It's not like a DD-only console will appear out of nowhere, there will be a gradual transition which is already happening (as you may have noticed).
@bugrimmar:
50gb is blu ray.. example you were downloading metal gear solid 4.. actually kojima wanted it to be bigger.. maybe with your future connection speed it'll be done in a few hours.. but that's just now..in the future, the games are gonna be much larger than that
Games don't need to get much bigger. A lot of the space is occupied by either FMVs, or loads of content which most developers can't afford to make. Therefore the increase in size won't be as big or as fast as you say. Also, FMVs are decreasing in popularity as hardware gets more powerful, with more and more games using in-engine scenes which look great too.
Then you re-download your games, just like with Steam, Xbox Originals, Wiiware and I'm guessing PSN already does too.
Actually I don't need a future connection to do that... With my connection I can easily download at 2 MB per second. At this speed it takes just 7 hours to download a 50 GB game. Of course not everyone has such a connection, but such big games are the exception rather than the norm.
Regarding broadband availability, mobile broadband (which is improving fast both in speed and distance reached) can take fast connections even to remote places. LTE networks to be launched in the next few years will be 10-20 times faster than the current connections.
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