What disc drive do you think the next xbox will use?

[dharh]

endimion said:

I have no idea what a kowenicki is.... but being heavily involved by the advertising world, I can only admire Sony's performance.... many should follow their lead... they really have few mis happenings in their history...

I'm not atacking just BR but the all concept of a disc as holding a glimps of long term future....

first of even BR is painfully small as a memory solution for it's size... it is relatively fragile compare to what exist already... really unpracticle to carry... and needs more than just a tiny plug to be used on many different devices....

and that is not counting the simple fact that DLC is cutting a lot of the production cost for the distributor, it is cutting a lot of middle men for the end customer and therefor makeing the thing cheaper to distribute and buy....

and talking about Copenhag discs  have no future in a eco friendly world, and beside the tree hugger speech, it is indeed an inconvenient ecological waste that will cost companies in the future with all sorts of nice eco laws :)

This is basically the articulated truth. Though i'm not sure if its next gen or the gen after that.

That said if MS is hoping to continue to make the XBOX the center of the home it must embrace BRD. If it can't play my movies, which will start to be half DVD/half BRD it will lose that segment of the market. I would still buy the X720, but it would lose significant ON time due to PS3/PS4 being able to play my movies. Not to mention that game size is still increasing and I think we might finally start to push the limit of DVDs being able to keep up.

Really though there are quite a few different things that could happen next gen or the gen after that.

1. Everything being replaced by direct download.

2. The numerous DISC formats (BRD, HD-DVD, HVD, DVD, etc)

3. Flash. (This is very iffy, a 50gig cart is going to be much more expensive than stamped discs, dollars to pennies).

4. A hybrid of download and physical medium. Heck they could have a very small cart that has some limited install data + hardware encrypted key to validate that can be sold in stores, making gamestop happy. All the rest is downloaded.