Soundwave said:
There probably will be an optional USB disc drive you can buy for like $150, it just won't run any modern PS6 games. It will be for legacy disc titles from the past. Probably only Sony will offer that too, MS is out completely. Running modern games off discs is just unworkable anyway, a Blu-Ray drive can read at maybe 50MB/sec ... that's pathetically slow in this day and age, the PS5 SSD is 5500MB/sec, the PS6 will likely be considerably faster than even that. That basically renders the whole idea of a game on a disc useless. It's just there essentially then to transfer data to the SSD, not to actually play a game. It's basically just a glorified key card. If PS6 doesn't have a disc drive and XBox doesn't have a disc drive and Steam obviously doesn't ... you're just going to have to accept not having a disc drive for games. Like there's no real debate at that point. For the record I'm not saying this is good/bad/in between, I'm just looking at it from what's likely to happen and the business side of it. I don't like that Netflix basically is destroying the physical media/theater model of movies, but me not liking it doesn't change the reality of it. |
I'd agree that disks don't make as much sense anymore because of the slow data rates. But I still think they'll all have a physical option to keep their retail presence. Carts would make the most sense as their speeds can be the fastest plus their capacity doesn't really have an upper limit like a blu ray disk. If I'm being honest I think Sony will stick with disks while I'm unsure what Microsoft will do.
