PS4 Region Free In China

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Hiku said:

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thismeintiel said:

You do realize that the only problem with Blu-ray this gen is that both MS and Sony only went with 6x Blu-ray drives, right?  So, it's much quicker to install the game on the HDD, then load the game off of it.  By next gen they most likely have 32x Blu-ray drives cheap enough to throw into the next consoles.  That would make them around the same speed as a standard HDD.  Next year, they are also debuting 4K Blu-rays, which can hold up to 100GB.  I'm sure that is large enough for any game next gen.

By that logic, by next gen, cartridges will have  min 512gb storage and be a lot cheaper and be as fst as ssdhd. Considering that right now they double the speed and storege of blurays. Some even speculate that we wont need ram in the future and the storage of sd will be just as good as current ram, although by then a new ram will come up and put that one to shame. So everithing will improve with time, not just blurays, and sd cards perform better and are  cheaper and smaller already so my money is on cartridges.

I wouldn't be so sure that next gen will be digital only. Given the response from gamers this generaton, I think there would need to be a transitioning period of some sort in that case. Iirc, 20% of Sony's game sales are done digitally nowadays. That means in 80% of the cases, people prefered disc releases, for whatever reason. Of course, that number would rise with lucrative perks for buying digital, like Steam is a great example of. But there are a lot of issues with forcing everyone to go full digital. For starters, even in countries with advanced interenet infrastructure, many people still have very slow connections. Then there's the issue of possibly losing your entire gaming collection by getting your account banned, or even something as silly (but common) as forgetting your password/losing access to your email account, etc.
For every person who likes the convenience of digital only, another person likes to actually own something and add it to their collection. So having that option is good.

Read what I said in a previous comment.

Digital only is one of the possible senarios I can think that can surpass disc. But what I mainly say is that I think discs are on their way out. I said that people wh like to buy used and resale their games, for publishers to sell some type of card like type license that you can take with you to any console or sale afterwards. That way it can be all digital, but keep the perks of phisycal like used games, and borrowed games.

But what im most looking foward t is cartridges to comeback. They are better and cheaper than blurays already and last a lot longer. The best thing is that they are much faster than bluray so dont need to install games on harddrives, and also they have bigger storrage on smaller space and easy to rewright, so thiings like patches and dlc can wright on the cartrige and sve room on harddrive. They consume a lot less energy, dont overheat, dont tend to break. The best thing is backwrds compatability, like nintendos heandhealds are always compatable, and if they wanted they coud have made it gameboy advance compatble in they still sold thouse games.

So I dont hope for all digital future, just thiink discs are on their last consoles. And there are ways to make digital still have the perks of physiical format.