ISPs are open and adamant about wanting to change the Internet into a post-net-neutrality world of prioritized content, and metered bandwidth (Read as CAPS CAPS CAPS everywhere). They also are glacially slow at rolling out true high speed access.
All of this while games are balooning in size. Once 7g ports die off, it won't be uncommon at all for multiple 40-80GB games to come out in the fall/winter seasons. And we are also seeing a stagnation in hard drive sizes for the 2.5" form factor. 2TB single-height 2.5" drives may be out in late 2015, but beyond that will take a looooong time to reach 4TB if ever. We're definitely in the range of diminishing returns due to physical limitations for mass produced storage products.
It all adds up to going digital-only being a pipe dream unless someone wants to chop their own legs off at the corporate level. Microsoft was nuts to believe their plan would fly. And others are nuts to think any discless system will work on a widespread massive level equal to console game sales in the US, at least for another 10-15 years+. Nobody is bringing the infrastructure to do so, and it's not like games will stay at 40GB typical sizes, by the end of the gen 80+ may be average, and a next-gen console may bring 250GB games to the forefront. Download that with your 250GB monthly cap :P Or your value internet plan that they give you, 10mbit with 5 GB included for $34.99, $4.99 for each additional GB downloaded. Not only will it take you a freaking year to download at that crap speed, but you'll go broke trying.
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