So what physical medium will Microsoft be using for their next gen console?

[Squilliam]

dunno001 said:

Squilliam said:
^32-64? Huh? Probably 32GB would be about the absolute highest they would need with say a FF game and they could get away with the typical 8/16GB cartridges for 99% of everything else. A Stock SD card reads at twice the speed of the PS3 Optical drive @ 20MB/s with no latency. Thats almost as important as having additional storage space and theres no noise.

@Communisthater: The Elite is the hardcore gamer SKU. Hardcore gamers are the ones who care more about BC and things like that and it helps them turn it into a profit centre.

I actually went up to 64 for those who feel the need that they have to use all the space of a dual-layer BR. (Truthfully, at that much space, I think one really needs to learn code optimization, which may also be easier with the lower load times.) Although yeah, I could also easily see the smaller sizes in use, I just need to think for worst case games, which is where I'm always afraid of things going.

64GB is a massive quantity of space, its hard to imagine developers would have the stomach for the cost to make the content to fill it all up. Of course theres always the option of using 7.1 less compressed sound which always takes up a lot of space but hardly anyone would notice. They would also be able to get by without duplication of commonly used data around the disc to speed loading.