With most places outside mid-sized or larger towns having a few Mbit/s connections at best, and games size in the order of tens GB, and the situation likely to improve minimally even as town dwellers get hundred Mbit/s connections, a new console without physical supports for games would be horribly uncomfortable for a too large share of potential buyers. It's also true that optical discs, while cheap, ar also slow for level loading when playing, so optical discs with HDD or faster storage to ionstall games on from disc or digital connection is still the best solution.
Faster than HDD mass storage solution will be adopted as they become cheaper and viable, in a totally smooth way, right now users can already replace HDDs with SSDs quite easily, but currently a large sized SSD would drive console price excessively up, so HDDs arfe still the standard equipment, but in future the transition will be easy.
About optical drives, nobody prevents console producers from making also cheaper SKUs without them for buyers that have good connections and are fine with going full dd.
Once it's established that a game needs anyway to be installed on HDD or faster, physical supports and digital download can coexist without any problem.
About solid state drives faster and more reliable than SSDs, they're obviously welcome, but while using them as aftermarket replacements can be done as soon as they are supported by console, the right price for the right size must come before they can become standard equipment. Exactly like it happens to SSDs.
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