The next gen will use Blu Ray no doubt about it but I wonder if Sony will transition to triple or quad layer discs? A quad layer Blu Ray holds 128GB on one disc which is more than enough for nearly all games that will be coming out next gen. The down side is that the discs cost more and the drives that play them are quite expensive and Sony will be desperate to keep the PS5 to a price around $400US. They got their fingers burned with the $600 PS3 launch and lessons were learned. I suspect they'll just keep the current Blu Ray format and include 2 discs when required or make the consumer download increasingly large day 1 patches but I hope this is not the case.
Remember that in theory a Blu Ray disc can have 6 layers so it's possible that we might be using them for many years to come.
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