This thread needs to stay on topic...the discussion is about is Blu-Ray needed for gaming.  It should be pointed out that he never said blu-ray was dead.  Also I can't tell if it is our original poster or the article that he linked seems to try and play up blu-ray with some sales data.  Anyone that is actually following blu-ray kowns it is not achieving anything near where they want it to be.  But with that being said I blieve their is a need for larger storage capacity in the coming nex-gen of consoles.  I don't think that blu-ray will be the answer to that storage issue as digital download is going to continue to take over market share.  Blu-ray will still have a place as a storage medium it just simply won't be the domiant format that dvd was.  There is just too much competiton in the marketplace.  Look to cable tv vs network television for a good example of where this marketplace will end up.

That's true - though when the successor is announced the costs for each console having a blu-ray drive will have dropped by a factor of 10 since the PS3 launch.  Sony paid the way for blu-ray becoming mass market and affordable for the next gen.

I too think it would have been a far easier sell for Sony, in that the end-users would be able to visually see more of a significant difference between the console capabilities, should they have focused more on the RAM and GPU than the CPU and storage medium.

If he thinks Digital Distribution is the future, he should look at the sales of the PSP Go. Bad support aside, it failed miserably, mainly because of it's medium, or the lack of thereof.

It failed cause it was a high price for recycled tech. Its not like the fat PSP is selling like hotcakes despite being 1/2 the price of PSP go.

if you look at the original article, you can see all Ive did is copy & paste the article and the sources given in that article

nintendo give them motions,sony give them blu-ray,microsoft give them online

*everybody hugs* for the next gen console

Lets use the principle of charity here. He is not completely against swapping disks. Its obvious he is talking about swapping disks in order to continue a streamlined gaming experience.

Who cares about blu-ray Avatar when it is not the 3D version? I will wait for 3D.

Xbox man being a dick about Sony stuff. Typical nonsense, should be ignored until he can provide some sort of proof to back up his claims. Lots of stupid statements coming out of the industry  in the last couple of weeks, the holidays are starting to stir people up.