Wii Succesor and Future Will Use Physical Media

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Joelcool7 said:

foxtail said:

Good, this also means the Wii successor will likely be backwards compatible.  Now it's just a matter of what kind of discs they will use.  It'll be either DVD or that holographic storage they've been researching and less likely Blu-ray.

The holo disk last I heard would cost a substancial amount of money to produce. But Nintendo's been eying it since the end of the GameCube era. Spending over 300-mill a year in R&D I'm sure Nintendo has a great new format to use. Likely their own disk format.

I'm not suprised Nintendo will stick with physical formats. I mean seriously the next gen games will be like 50-gig downloading those suckers would be costly and not be efficient. I don't think digital downloads will become mainstream as long as game companies continue to advance the amount and quality of content they provide.

Lets face it no AAA game is going to be efficiently downloaded.

You must never heard of steam. I can tell you its very feasible and your projection for game sizes is way too large. Take a look at the pc market.