Regardless of names, companies or time; I think there's one thing true about the article, the future generation of consoles will be a mix between Tivo or Sky with a console where you just download stuff.
I think that in a few years time discs will be redundant as they are an storage device that can't replace data as fast as SD cards or portable hard drives.
I can see a moment where people buy stuff from hot spots downloading the content on their mobiles with hard drives of 50 gig and then transfer them to their PLAY machines.
Just speculating.
/goes back to work
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