Will we see a digital-only console option next gen?

[kristianity77]

MohammadBadir said:

kristianity77 said:

Hmm, I don't think so, not to my knowledge anyway.  There might be some high end USB 3.0 Flash drives that would read faster than the 6X Blu Ray drive would in the PS4 but I'd be amazed if any were capable of reading at Hard Drive speeds.  Unless of course, you mean SSD drives.  But that would never be financially viable as a means to buy media "in a box" as it were over the counter.

I'm not too sure but I've read somewhere that an average hardrive can go up to 200MB/s while we already have 260MB/s Flash Drives.

You right lol  Ive just looked, shows how out of touch I am with flash drives!  In that case they would certainly work and a read speed of 250mb/s is certainly more than enough.  The question then is whether it would ever be vaiable price wise.  When you factor in that mass printing off a Blu Ray might cost I dunno....$1 a time perhaps, a 64GB or above equivalent in a flash drive would be at least ten times that amount at a guess.  I suppose if the extra cost didn't get passed down to the consumer, I'd be all for it.