Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[DonFerrari]

SvennoJ said:

DonFerrari said:

That was because PCs when they have a physical media reader it is dvd instead of bd. So MS gone and launched for the most common (and still niche) PC market. Xbox can read DVD but you can bet the game will come on BD.

I don't think printing the games on 4K BD will be that much more expensive long term than making more discs or if consumers will be happy with all games needing download to even play (Sony said all their physical PS4 and PS5 games could be played after installing without any need to connect to the internet).

They have 4K players anyway and 4K blu-ray has been around for a while so sure why not. At the start of the gen I'm guessing we'll continue to get blu-ray discs. Cross-gen titles that can be read on both the old and new machines. 4K blu-rays should also install a bit faster. Blu-ray was up to 27 MBs on ps4 (6x), 32 minutes to copy a full 50GB disc. BDXL goes up to 128 GB, if rotating at the same speed that should reduce copy times to 40%.

Well sure for games that you buy for PS4/X1 and want to use the BC or patches it certainly will be regular BD, for the PS5 version not sure if they would use the same disc (I guess not because Sony allows you to play the PS5 version without need of internet, so the whole file needs to be there), MS with their smart delivery I have no idea if crossgen titles will be sold a single version that you can use on either consoles or how it will work.

Mummelmann said:
If Sony and MS would fix their damn download speeds, I'd have no problems with this. As it stands, it just isn't good enough for me to go fully digital. Plus, the atrocious pricing for extra storage is a big no-no.

I agree the speed is low, and from all we know the one in PS4 is much slower than on Xbox. But it never been a real issue to me, even for digital games I generally buy the game while I'm still playing something else so it is downloaded when I finish that. Sure Yakuza trilogy that I bought when I had nothing else to play I had to wait so I watched series, and CoD MW Remastered that for god know why deleted itself for no good reason I had to wait a full 100Gb download just to finish the game.