Digital downloads. By next Gen you should be able to buy all your games digitally and play them at 500 megs per second off your built in sata III ssd :)  

Sounds like $599

LOL.... considering that a PCI-Express drive with almost 1TB and write and read speeds of 700Mbps cost around 3000 euros/dollars and a SSD with 500mbps read and 300mbps write with just 250gb cost almost 600 euros/dollars... i do not expect this tech to be on next gen as disolitude as described...

OK. I don't have enough information to continue debating on this point. I just don't expect to see graphene or other technologies that aren't just slight CMOS modifications for 15+ years.

Nvidia fabs everything at TSMC, and AMD sold its fabs to Abu Dhabi, but I think IBM and Samsung will withdraw from the foundry business below 22nm and leave just Intel, Globalfoundries and TSMC for 14nm. Then past that I think at least one of GF and TSMC will drop out.

Hey I'd pay for it... :)

But one has to wonder,  what are the odds we will get this new IBM tech if we can't get a simple SSD drive to come down to 1 dollar per gig price? :)

I wondering if, over the next 10 years, we end up with an end of load times for games, like it used to be with carts.

same here... i did pay 600 euros for my PS3 and i do not regret it...
if the next gen does come only in a couple of years we can only hope that this type of tech could be "affordable"  to be used in home consoles that dont go as high as 600 euros. but 1TB is just for a game collection, like my current one, with almost 40 games (each game using 25gb, estimate game size for next gen IMO) and downloading them will go for 7 hours in my current internet speed... a lot of things must be improved for this to be doable...

this IBM tech besides being more fast has to be also 2 or 3 times cheaper to really be usable in home consoles...