Sony's in a 'bag of hurt' because of Blu-ray

[VanceIX]

tiffac said:

VanceIX said:

tiffac said:
Well good for you guys in 1st world countries if physical media dies, bad for us 3rd world countries with f@cked up internet infrastructure and services.

Can't these games just fit a microSD or something instead of a disc base media?

50gb of game would need a 64gb microSD, which are ungodly expensive. 

But developers rarely use 50GB space anyway, surely there is other cheap alternative to Blu Ray that won't let quality suffer?

Digital download, and that's it. To get any type of acceptable speed you would need flash memory (which is expensive) or blu-ray (which isn't quite as expensive, but still kinda expensive). If you assume most games this gen will be ~25gb, you would need 32gb of flash memory to cover that, and SD cards of that size are around $20. A single blu-ray disc costs around $1. That's $19 more you'll have to pay to have flash memory media.