| robzo100 said: One disadvantage of using physical media is that you use up a very large amount of space when it comes to the size of a console. Apple clearly is looking in that direction as well being that portability in size is very important for them. They ditched the Disk drive for their Mac Book Airs. It may be a sign of things to come for their other doodads. Nintendo has always tried to have their consoles be small and mobile. Gamecube had a handle for transportation and was very light. And Wii is a tiny baby as well. Also, how will Wii compete if their competitors go digital? They'll be able to charge much less. |
Do you know what size we are talking concerning solid state media? The next console could be even smaller since it doesn't need to be the size of a disc.
The thing is a physical media will be needed in the near future for the transition to cloud computing. I've had these past two years a laptop similar to the macbook air (no dvd-rom), but I've been using both internet and flash media to cover that need. The future is moving away from moving media; be it CDs, DVDs, HardDisks and into the SSD, where media will be accessed quickly via streams or downloads.
