Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[DonFerrari]

DPsx7 said:

DonFerrari said:

Unless I mistook the point made, it was that going cartridge instead of BD you wouldn't need to install on the console, and the other point was that 16 and 32Gb cartridges are getting cheaper. Neither of those really makes a difference, because games for 9th gen will need 64Gb or more available space more likely than not and the speed of cartridges even though higher than BD won't make install go away (at least for PS and Xbox).

About the plastic waste someone posted a time ago that if all the plastic of all the games ever printed was compacted it would be a very small chunk of plastic.

I'm neither here nor there. If it reads from the cart, fine. If it installs to speed things up that's ok too. My goal is to avoid being tied to the internet, whether to DL it or demanding an active connection to play.

Not exactly. A great many of the games I play aren't breaking the 30gb mark. There's going to be better compression. Maybe the price of development will be too great and we'll see more indie style games than AAA. Realism/graphics only goes so far, a game still has to be fun ya know? We'll see what happens.

I don't know anyone who buys physical games with the intent to throw away any of it. The only real waste is the cellophane.

Not gonna happen outside of perhaps Nintendo. Most 9th gen games will be over 30Gb. And sure I prefer to have physical as well and I'm fine with cheap BD.