^This.

But those are retail costs so you know companys can get them for much much much much much cheaper. I seriously bet MS could use 32GB flashdrives of sorts and they would only cost them around a dollar or two because in 2 years technology like that will be even way more uber cheap.

Thought most PC's have blu Ray by now? So would be no biggy if MS has to use it for the nextbox.

microsoft is on the blue ray assocation panel but they will not pay royalities for blue ray and their next xbox , i think their going to use Hddvd which will be cheap as hell

pc's arent made by microsoft, just the operating system is windows,which isnt always the case people opt for linux and mac over windows

I don't believe DD is the way to go, Sony found out the hard way it doesnt do so well, and that's with small psp games, imagine the size of files for next gen games, I'd believe the gen after we would be ready for it, but not many countries have strong internet conections, yes main countries do, but if they want strong WW sales they will have to wait for DD i believe

it only went cheap because it was a discontinued format, if it was bought back it would become expensive again, and not that I don't believe you can you link me to who is on the pannel for blu ray? i know sony pannasionic and a few others are on there

i have a couple question that hopefully someone can answer.

1) for the orginal Xbox, did it actually use DVD? i thought it used some varient, and that it held slightly less space than the DVD used on the PS2, also i thought in order to play DVD's on the Xbox you needed some adapter.

is this true, or is it bs? i dont know i just heard something about this

2) since DVD9 is being used by the xbox 360 this gen, and the max resolution a DVD movie can have is Standard Def, how does the xbox produce HD visuals? also even though in game visual can be HD, isnt it impossible for cinamatics/cgi cutscenes to be in HD for it? or am i wrong again about this? and if i am wrong how do they make the cutscenes in HD when movies cant be?

OT: they will probably use a varient of bluray. i think most games will be 25 GB plus, some being around 100 GB.

I think games might go even bigger than 32gb though, they are at thats stage now with ps3 games and its not even the end of the generation yet,so next gen will be even bigger, say with big releases such as cod games yes i could see that fitting on a 32gb flash card but i dont see it being cheap, 11 million flash cards will be a bit more expensive than the 11 million DVD9's or blurays discs

I feel I should mention that Final Fantasy XIII on PS3 is 41 GB's.